The ten best self-help gurus

At the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman named the ten best self-help gurus.One thinker on the list:Seneca the StoicIf you think your life is hard, pity Seneca, the Roman philosopher forced to commit ritual suicide by bleeding himself to death. Before that, though, he formulated many of the basic ideas of Stoicism, which bears little resemblance to the stiff-upper-lippery with which the word has come to