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This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams professional­filed Ryan Hol­i­day, a one-time pub­lic-rela­tions whiz-kid who’s rein­vent­ed him­self over the previous decade as a communicate­er for the useless: specif­i­cal­ly Epicte­tus, Seneca, and above all Mar­cus Aure­lius, the fig­ure­heads of the traditional college of phi­los­o­phy we now know as Sto­icism. It “cen­ters on 4 virtues: braveness, tem­per­ance, jus­tice and wis­dom,”…