Stoic advice can be seen as a form of self-help, but it views the source of our problems very differently. Analyzing people pleasing through a Stoic lens offers a case in point.
Hercules the Archer, by Antoine Bourdelle (1909). Source: Pixabay/Gaimard The allegory of the archer features in Cicero’s On the Ends of Good and Evil, a Socratic dialogue dedicated to Brutus, ...