WHY ARE WE SO TROUBLED BY WHAT WE CANNOT CHANGE? HOW CAN A PERSON BE FREE EVEN IN THE MIDST OF DIFFICULTY? CAN A PHILOSOPHER FROM TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO TEACH US TO LIVE BETTER TODAY? In this book, we meet and have coffee with Epictetus, a man who was born a slave and managed to become one of the most important teachers of human freedom. He does not speak to us about an ideal world, but about the real world: about disappointments, losses, fears, and expectations that accompany every human life.

With simple and direct language, he shows us how to distinguish what depends on us from what does not, how to face difficulties without losing our dignity, and how to find strength where most see a dead end. A book that does not promise to change the world around us, but the way we stand before it. And perhaps that is why Epictetus' ideas still respond so powerfully, twenty centuries later, to the anxieties of modern humans.

AN ENJOYABLE COFFEE WITH THE MAN WHO TAUGHT US THAT THE GREATEST VICTORY IS NOT TO CONQUER THE WORLD, BUT OURSELVES.