Punch “What is Stoicism” into Google and the answers returned will vary widely. Most will be shallow, some less so, but nearly all of them incomplete. This isn’t always the fault of those attempting to answer the question — although there’s plenty of ignorance masquerading as confidence out there — it’s more due to the fact that answering this question, in full, is nigh impossible to do in a blog post intended for at-your-finger-tips access and in-a-minute consumption. We live in the “I Wiki’d it!” era and Stoicism isn’t something you come to understand by Wiki-ing or reading a 1200 word blog post written by a random internet human.