A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have abandoned.

... trains people to do it is to monitor their own reactions and reflect critically on how they perceive and interpret the world. When Andrew wrote about his encounter with Stoicism, he was a young man of twenty-four suffering from a ...

In this book, Keith E. Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption.Stanovich shows that IQ tests (or their proxies, such as the SAT) are radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning.