Just read "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, and "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus.
This article hints at both - and they were my biggest eye-openers on the question of how* to live.
This article hints at both - and they were my biggest eye-openers on the question of how* to live.
It's best to take Irvine's book as a guide to his own modern philosophy heavily based off Stoicism. Take that as you will, but I would recommend Stoicism and the Art of Happiness and some of the original Stoic classics; Enchiridion by Epictetus (it's short and very direct) and Seneca the Youngers Letters.