How to Really Live: An Ancient Guide to Wise Time Management

Who doesn't sometimes worry that cell phones, the internet, and television are stealing our time and preventing us from truly living?
How can we make the most of our time on Earth?
In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger provided one of the most famous answers to the above question in his On the Shortness of Life – a work that has more to teach us today than ever before.

In How to Live Really, James Romm presents this brilliant work of Seneca's along with two more of his letters on the same subject.

With disarming satire, Seneca deplores the ways in which we waste our time failing to realize how valuable it is. We do not allow people to steal our money, yet we allow them to plunder our time, or spend it alone in useless, pointless pursuits.

Seneca also describes how we can make the best use of the short time we have. And he argues that we can make our lives longer, or even eternal, because living a real life is like achieving a kind of immortality.

A counterweight to the time-consuming distractions of the modern world, this book explains through ancient wisdom how to give real value to our time – and our lives.

Life is not short when we get it, but we make it short, so our life is not short, we are the ones who waste it.
As abundant and royal wealth can be dispersed in a moment if it falls into the hands of an evil master, while it increases when used by a good steward, so our life is of sufficient duration to him who manages it well.

Translation: Violetta Zevki
Selection of texts and introduction: James S. Romm

Pages: 120
Height (cm) & Width (cm): 18 X 12