Elgan: How to become an iPhone Vulcan

11.07.2009

Here are the Vulcan skills you can acquire to be more successful in your life and career, and the iPhone features, apps and content that can help you acquire them.

Early in the Star Trek TV series, Spock was presented as a member of a people devoid of emotion. We learned later, however, that the Vulcan people were highly emotional, but trained themselves to suppress emotional responses in favor of logical ones.

Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus advocated the cultivation of self control, and the control and suppression of emotions. Mr. Spock was clearly a student of Stoicism, and you can be, too.

Need to master the three great Stoic philosophers? There's an app for that -- three, actually. You can buy ($.99), by Seneca (free) and by Epictetus ($1.99) on the App Store.