Travel for STOICs
For an obsessive-compulsive (O-C for short), the idea of traveling is usually nothing more than that, an idea. An O-C actually doing the traveling is a terrifying prospect; we are far too circumscribed and self-regulated to accomplish the planning, get on the planes, find our accommodations at our destinations, and actually enjoy the process. Fold in introversion, and you've got a crippling combination. Solo travel? Forget it.

"Travel for STOICs" is both a travel book and a survival manual, but of a different sort. It's not about which great restaurants to patronize or what sites are a must-see in a given place; it's about how to master solo travel challenges that happen in between those activities while successfully managing your O-C, introverted self. This book is especially for the STOIC--the Solo Traveler: Obsessive, Introverted, Compulsive--and for those who care about our well-being and happiness.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca offer ancient wisdom still relevant today. Part travel guide, part self-help book, and part memoir, "Travel for STOICs" is THE book for the Solo Traveler who is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive, informed and empowered by these ideas borrowed from ancient Stoicism. Written specifically for those who dream of escaping, or at least being granted a temporary furlough, from the prison of the obsessive-compulsive and introverted, "Travel for STOICs" chronicles a sampling of STOIC experiences and illuminates the ways in which Stoic philosophy can strengthen, as Marcus Aurelius puts it, "the ruling power within us."
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Travel for STOICs
For an obsessive-compulsive (O-C for short), the idea of traveling is usually nothing more than that, an idea. An O-C actually doing the traveling is a terrifying prospect; we are far too circumscribed and self-regulated to accomplish the planning, get on the planes, find our accommodations at our destinations, and actually enjoy the process. Fold in introversion, and you've got a crippling combination. Solo travel? Forget it.

"Travel for STOICs" is both a travel book and a survival manual, but of a different sort. It's not about which great restaurants to patronize or what sites are a must-see in a given place; it's about how to master solo travel challenges that happen in between those activities while successfully managing your O-C, introverted self. This book is especially for the STOIC--the Solo Traveler: Obsessive, Introverted, Compulsive--and for those who care about our well-being and happiness.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca offer ancient wisdom still relevant today. Part travel guide, part self-help book, and part memoir, "Travel for STOICs" is THE book for the Solo Traveler who is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive, informed and empowered by these ideas borrowed from ancient Stoicism. Written specifically for those who dream of escaping, or at least being granted a temporary furlough, from the prison of the obsessive-compulsive and introverted, "Travel for STOICs" chronicles a sampling of STOIC experiences and illuminates the ways in which Stoic philosophy can strengthen, as Marcus Aurelius puts it, "the ruling power within us."
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Travel for STOICs

Travel for STOICs

by Eva Rome
Travel for STOICs

Travel for STOICs

by Eva Rome

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Overview

For an obsessive-compulsive (O-C for short), the idea of traveling is usually nothing more than that, an idea. An O-C actually doing the traveling is a terrifying prospect; we are far too circumscribed and self-regulated to accomplish the planning, get on the planes, find our accommodations at our destinations, and actually enjoy the process. Fold in introversion, and you've got a crippling combination. Solo travel? Forget it.

"Travel for STOICs" is both a travel book and a survival manual, but of a different sort. It's not about which great restaurants to patronize or what sites are a must-see in a given place; it's about how to master solo travel challenges that happen in between those activities while successfully managing your O-C, introverted self. This book is especially for the STOIC--the Solo Traveler: Obsessive, Introverted, Compulsive--and for those who care about our well-being and happiness.

Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca offer ancient wisdom still relevant today. Part travel guide, part self-help book, and part memoir, "Travel for STOICs" is THE book for the Solo Traveler who is Obsessive, Introverted, and Compulsive, informed and empowered by these ideas borrowed from ancient Stoicism. Written specifically for those who dream of escaping, or at least being granted a temporary furlough, from the prison of the obsessive-compulsive and introverted, "Travel for STOICs" chronicles a sampling of STOIC experiences and illuminates the ways in which Stoic philosophy can strengthen, as Marcus Aurelius puts it, "the ruling power within us."

Product Details

BN ID: 2940161797723
Publisher: Blue Morpho Press New Mexico
Publication date: 09/17/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 699 KB

About the Author

Eva Rome is a writer and a video artist. As a writer, her experience ranges from screenplays, short stories, and poetry, to her first self-published novel "Travel for STOICs". Her screenplay "Nota Ogni Cosa: Leonardo the Artist" won a Gold Award in the Houston International Film Festival and placed in the finals of the Academy Awards Foundation’s screenplay competition. She has served as a screenplay consultant to the National Endowment for the Arts Media Grants Committee and as a contract screenplay and script writer/consultant.

As a video artist, she has received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship and four American Film Institute/NEA Fellowships. Her video art has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierre du Chardin Gallery (Paris), The Gallery of Modern Art (Rome). She has taught at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design (both in Providence) and at the University of Houston. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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