Book containing in itself wisdom of stoicism. Will help to introduce gladness in life, decrease the level of alarm and manage with a negative that surrounds us.In the modern world of sharp competitive activity we constantly compete with other and overcome itself in aspiration to become the best and to come to the finish first. In this eternal time trouble we do not have time to stop and look around, understand where our veritable desires, and that is stuck to us by society, to understand, that gives gladness us, and from what we test a sadness. Such mode exhausts, strengthens an alarm and quite often results in depression.And all this time at heart does our greatest fear move: what if, in spite of all efforts and efforts, we for nothing dissipate life?How to understand, for the sake of what to live? How to enjoy life and her blessing and to do it consciously, not becoming their slaves? How to outlive a loss and to overcome a heartache? How to manage with a negative? How to decrease an alarm and release the past, concentrating the efforts on that we are in strength to control? That can we undertake, to do our life not simply tolerable, but glad?Answers for these questions allows to find stoicism.This philosophy helps to realize that the world is chaotic and unfair, a great deal in him is determined by a chance and, in spite of it, I am on us that to lean and on what to build the life. Understanding stoic wisdom, we begin to distinguish unsubject to us from подконтрольного, first we study proof to carry, and second - to restrain or even prevent. Much more productive to spend the time on that, to "till the own garden" and обустраивать it how we need actually.Stoic philosophy arising up 2000 more than back experiences today revival. Annually thousands of people aspiring to test the studies of stoics in practice take part in Stoic Week, training endurance, self-possession and other stoic virtues.Appealing to the ancient studies, William Ирвин suggests to adopt for stoics those practices that is actual for the XXI century. The book he made as guidance for practicing stoics, that every day weeks they could dedicate to concrete stoic principle or stoic technique, changing the life to the best.Whom this book is forFor all, who wants to find happiness authentic and strong, find sense of life and grasp truth wholly, to conduct life with a benefit for itself and not in a damage other.For those, who aims to live, maximizing gladnesses and diminishing the level of alarm.In Russian language published first.