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Giving a short list of recommendations feels a little silly because it's so personal and contingent what will work for you at this moment.

However, I'll make one concrete recommendation: Philosophy as a Way of Life by Pierre Hadot. It's about the ancient Greeks and the Stoics and the particular ways they saw thinking as bound up with living. It's a serious book but beautifully written.

It is discussed more at length in this list of 5 "life-changing" philosophy books.

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/life-changing-philosophy-bo...

fivebooks.com is a great site where they ask people to recommend five books on their area of expertise and explain why they picked each one. They have a philosophy category and it's organized by topic, including "How to Live".

https://fivebooks.com/category/philosophy/



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