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Disciplína je osud - Ryan Holiday
O knize Disciplína je osud Aby človek ovládol čokoľvek druhé, musí najprv ovládnuť seba – svoje emócie, svoje myšlienky, svoje činy. Eisenhower sa raz vyslovil, že sloboda je v skutočnosti príležitosť na uplatnenie sebadisciplíny. Cicero nazýval cnosť zdržanlivosti (čo je len iný výraz pre disciplínu) ozdobou života. Bez hraníc a obmedzení riskujeme nielen to, že nerozvinieme svoj plný potenciál, ale ohrozíme to, čo sme už dosiahli a privoláme si biedu a hanbu.
What It Takes To Build The Life You Actually Want
You know, not everything has to be big. I realize that the impulse, especially when it comes to business, is to try to grow everything to the absolute biggest it can be. This is not a new, but it’s certainly a defining trend of our age. After all, all this drama about data centers is being driven by hyperscalers—companies built around taking things that work and scaling them as far as they can possibly go. But I hate that philosophy…or at least, it’s not what I practice in my life.
Odvaha volá: Šťastie stojí na strane odvážnych
O knize Odvaha volá: Šťastie stojí na strane odvážnych V knihe Odvaha volá Ryan Holiday rozoberá prvky strachu v prejave zbabelosti, prvky odvahy v prejave statočnosti a prvky hrdinstva v prejave chrabrosti. Prostredníctvom pútavých príbehov o historických a súčasných lídroch, vrátane Charlesa De Gaulla, Florence Nightingale a Martina Luthera Kinga Jr., nám Holiday ukazuje, ako prekonať strach a nachádzať odvahu v každodennom živote.
Mądrość wymaga wysiłku. Jest tego warta [FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI]
[FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI] Dawno temu Herakles znalazł się na rozstaju dróg. W tym cichym miejscu pośród greckich wzgórz, w cieniu sękatych sosen, bohater mitu greckiego po raz pierwszy stanął twarzą w twarz z przeznaczeniem. Nikt nie wie, gdzie ani kiedy się to stało. Dowiadujemy się o tym zdarzeniu z pism Sokratesa, oglądamy je na najpiękniejszych malowidłach okresu odrodzenia, a rodzącą się siłę, napinające się mięśnie i udrękę bohatera posłyszeć można w klasycznej kantacie Bacha.
La voie de la sagesse
Comment accéder à une vie meilleure avec les Stoïciens APRÈS LE CHOIX DU COURAGE, RYAN HOLIDAY PROPOSE LE DEUXIÈME VOLET DE SA SÉRIE CONSACRÉE AUX VERTUS STOÏCIENNES. Courage, discipline, justice et sagesse. De ces quatre vertus stoïciennes, la sagesse est la plus difficile à acquérir. Sans elle, nos plus grandes qualités deviennent nos pires défauts : le courage se transforme en témérité, l'autodiscipline en cruauté, la justice en moralisation.
Moudrost vyžaduje úsilí | Komentáře
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Moudrost vyžaduje úsilí
O knize Moudrost vyžaduje úsilí Kterou cestu si zvolíte – tu jednoduchou, nebo tu správnou? Každý jeden den svého života stojíme na rozcestí. Volíme si mezi neřestí a ctností. Budete sobečtí, nebo ohleduplní? Budete trénovat dobrý návyk, nebo zlozvyk? Budete zbabělí, nebo odvážní? Užijete si blaženou nevědomost, nebo výzvu nových myšlenek? Všechna tato rozhodnutí by se dala shrnout do jediné otázky: Když volíte svou cestu, vyberete si tu jednoduchou, nebo tu správnou?
资深作者分享300篇文章创作经验：写作是思考与坚持的游戏
播客My First Million的主理人Shaan Puri曾问过自己的客户们一个问题，“在成为我的客户之前，你们关注了我多久？” 他们的回应是：5年、3年、2年、1年、8个月、6个月…… 绝大多数人都在想，“我如何从一开始就成功”，因此错过了开始这件事的最好时候。 对于写作者来说，不要将内容视为射击，总想着命中红心，那样的结果会令人失望，你会觉得自己像个糟糕的射手。 把内容想象成在花园的种子，你是在培育自己的花园，一片美好的花卉，自然会吸引无数人前来。 玩一个更有耐心的游戏，从长远来看会赚得更多。 今天聊聊在写了300多篇文章后，我学到了什么呢？ 1学习的真相 从前我以为要先学到足够多，积累足够多，才能开始写。 不是的。 在我不断地写文字后，我逐渐意识到一点，绝大多数人的学习其实是消费。 无论我过去看了多少本书，听了多少集播客，还是上了多少课，如果没有输出的学习，都只是在消费内容。 这种消费带来的只是廉价的多巴胺，让自己感觉很努力，但并不会带来任何改变。 你以为自己积累了很多知识，但写出来才发现根本说不清楚。 2写作的痛苦 以前觉得写作很痛苦，憋了半天写不出来几个字。...
Are You Noticing This?
Honestly, it’s been so bad for so long, I didn’t even notice. When we moved out to rural Texas in 2015, there was basically no cell phone service at our house or on our dirt road. We tried to fix it at first—I even put a booster on the roof—but it didn’t work. I suppose we could have switched providers…but that seemed like a pain. We had a landline and wifi-calling, though both were unreliable, especially in storms or when one of our neighbors would cut the AT&T line while grading the road.
26 Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026
26 Rules to Be a Better Thinker in 2026 Press enter or click to view image in full size A couple of years ago, I asked Robert Greene what he thought about AI. “I think back to when I was 19-years-old and in college,” Robert said. It was a class where they were to read and translate classical Greek texts “They gave us a passage of Thucydides, the hardest writer of all to read in ancient Greek,” he explained.
Wijsheid is werk
Wijsheid wordt de moeder van alle deugden genoemd – en terecht. Wijsheid geeft perspectief, onthult waarheden en wijst ons de weg. Zonder wijsheid is moed roekeloos, discipline zinloos, rechtvaardigheid blind. Dit onderscheidingsvermogen is niet aangeboren, het moet verdiend worden.
You Should Do Something Really, Really Hard This Year
Press enter or click to view image in full size A lot happened in 2025. I don’t just mean in the world, although obviously it did. I mean in my life. But I think that, years from now, I probably won’t remember most of it. The news stories will recede into the background. I’ll forget exactly if this was the year that I put a book out or where it landed on the bestseller list.
The Secret To Better Habits In 2026
Here we are…past the halfway point of the 2020s. With another year looming before us, I’ve been thinking, if I could flash forward to December 2026, what would it take for me to look back and call it a good year? What challenges will I have taken on? What changes will I have made? What will I have learned? What good will I have done? I don’t know what 2026 has in store, but I do know that if it’s going to be a good year, it won’t be an accident. It won’t just happen. It will take work.
I Stopped Caring About Results (And Started Getting Them)
Press enter or click to view image in full size The week after my first book came out in 2012 was rough. I mean, it wasn’t actually rough. I was twenty five. My rent was $900 a month for a beautiful two room apartment in the Garden District in New Orleans. I was with the girl I would eventually marry and I’d just put out my first book. I should have felt like everything was amazing. Instead I was in almost debilitating physical and emotional pain…and it was all self-inflicted.
I Stopped Caring About Results (And Started Getting Them)
The week after my first book came out in 2012 was rough. I mean, it wasn’t actually rough. I was twenty five. My rent was $900 a month for a beautiful two room apartment in the Garden District in New Orleans. I was with the girl I would eventually marry and I’d just put out my first book. I should have felt like everything was amazing. Instead I was in almost debilitating physical and emotional pain…and it was all self-inflicted.
Are Conservatives the New Snowflakes?
Are Conservatives the New Snowflakes? Members of the right once derided the left for emotional hypersensitivity. Today, they lead the charge to suppress ideas that unsettle them. Since last year’s presidential election, we’ve tracked how the right, now that it’s back in power, has adopted some of the worst tactics of the intolerant left—from suppressing dissenting views to enforcing ideological purity tests.
Wisdom Is Not a Finish Line: It’s a Daily Practice
Bestselling Author Ryan Holiday writes about the beauty, humility, and patience needed for a meaningful life. Listen to this article. There was something crazy, I admit, about writing a book about philosophy at twenty‑five. Most people weren’t interested in philosophy (and most publishers weren’t either). I had no degree . . . and still don’t. I can’t read Greek or Latin. And I left a good job running the marketing for a publicly traded company to do it. It was preposterous on many levels.
Le pire n'est jamais sûr : préparez-vous à l'échec pour mieux réussir
Une femme P-DG réunit ses équipes dans la salle de réunion la veille du lancement d'un nouveau projet de grande ampleur. Tous s'asseyent autour de la table. Elle prend la parole : « J'ai une mauvaise nouvelle. Le projet a échoué en beauté. Dites-moi, qu'est-ce qui n'a pas marché ? » Comment ? Mais on n'a encore rien lancé ! Justement. La patronne impose un exercice de rétrospection… par avance. Elle utilise la technique pré-mortem développée par le psychologue Gary Klein.
You Must Avoid Getting Corrupted By This
I’m giving a talk in Austin next week (only a few tickets left) and San Diego in February. Grab seats and come see me! My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race. It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark oppositional energy that goes from issue to issue, era to era.
The World Lost a Great Man (and my friend) But His Legacy Lives On...
When he was born, he was legally considered less than fully human. Born in segregated Washington in 1937, George Raveling and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities. And then it got worse from there. When he was nine, his father died at the age of forty-nine. His mother was committed to an asylum when he was thirteen. Effectively orphaned, this could have been another sad story from a long time ago.
George Raveling’s Extraordinary American Life
As a child, he was legally considered less than fully human. A black man born in segregated Washington, D.C., in 1937, George Raveling and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities. At age nine, his father died. At age 13, his mother was committed to an asylum. This could have been another sad story from a long time ago. Instead, his life became something beautiful and inspiring—a classic American story.
The World Lost a Great Man (and my friend) But His Legacy Lives On…
When he was born, he was legally considered less than fully human. Born in segregated Washington in 1937, George Raveling and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities. And then it got worse from there. When he was nine, his father died at the age of forty-nine. His mother was committed to an asylum when he was thirteen. Effectively orphaned, this could have been another sad story from a long time ago.
Why I Ran A Solo Race From Marathon To Athens (And What It Taught Me)
I remember exactly where I was. Twenty years ago, I was working in Hollywood. On my lunch break, I was at Philly's Pizza on La Cienega and Olympic, reading The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene.
37 Lessons From The Birthplace Of Stoicism
On a fateful day in the fourth century BC, the Phoenician merchant Zeno lost everything. While traveling through the Mediterranean Sea with a cargo full of Tyrian purple dye, his ship wrecked upon the rocks, his cargo lost to the sea. He washed up in Athens. We’re not sure what caused the wreck, but it devastated him financially, physically, emotionally. It could have been the end of his story — the loss could have driven him to drink or suicide, or a quiet ordinary life in the service of others.
Everything (And I Really Mean Everything) Is A Chance To Do This
I think people get it wrong. When the Stoics say that the obstacle is the way, that there’s an opportunity in every obstacle, most of us take that to mean there’s some way to turn adversity into advantage. We think of entrepreneurs pivoting during a downturn and building a billion-dollar business. We think of an investor buying back their own stock or taking advantage of being underestimated by their competitors. We think of a general using the bad weather as cover.
I Love Reading & Why I Read So Much
If you have a lot of books in your house, people usually assume one of two things: a) you’re a speed reader, or b) you spend all your time reading. In my case, because of my reading list and some of my articles, I get asked over email. For simplicity’s sake, I have always answered rather sheepishly, “Yes, I do spend a lot of time reading.” I am definitely not a speed reader, but I’ve realized over the last few months that my answer hasn’t been totally honest.
What Books To Base Your Life On
I’ve always devoured books. Why, exactly, I’m not sure. Obviously a big reason to read is because it’s fun. As Petrarch, a famous book lover observed some 700 years ago, “books give delight to the very marrow of one’s bones.” But if I was honest, I would say the real reason that I’ve spent so much time with my nose inside this book or that book is because I have been searching for something: a way to life. There is a Latin expression: liber medicina animi (a book is the soul’s medicine).
The Joy of Reading Really Really Really Long Books
When I was twenty years old, I showed up one day for work as an intern and my boss had a huge book waiting for me: The Power Broker by Robert Caro. “Read this,” he said, “it’s the most important book on power ever written.” Anyone that’s read it, know that this is not just any book. For starters, it’s some 1336 pages. My (hardcover) copy weighed nearly five pounds. And the power broker at the center of it? He’s the parks commissioner of New York City.
If You’re Trying To Speed Up Your Reading, And Squeeze It Into Every Cranny Of Your Life, Try Again
I love books. I love reading. I do it as much as I can. I tell people they should do the same and have for a long time. But when I hear that people are now actively working up their tolerance to listen to audiobooks on higher and higher speeds, try ‘hack’ reading through courses or apps, when they listen to snippets of books while they walk to the fridge, I just shake my head. Guys, you’re doing it wrong! You’re missing the point! Reading is like eating, sex and meditation.
How To Read More
When you read a lot of books people inevitably assume you speed read. In fact, that’s probably the most common email I get. They want to know my trick for reading so fast. They see all the books I recommend every month in my reading newsletter and assume I must have some secret. So they ask me to teach them how to speed read. That’s when I tell them I don’t have a secret. Even though I read hundreds of books every single year, I actually read quite slow.
‘Life Is Real! Life Is Earnest!’
Welcome to Things Worth Remembering, in which writers share a poem or a paragraph that all of us should commit to heart—because once upon a time, as Ryan Holiday writes today, Americans could “pick up their daily newspaper and find a totally straightforward, understandable poem full of advice on how to be a good person.” He shares some of his favorite verses in the following column. Poems have always been earnest. Rhapsodizing about nature. Pouring out your heart to a lover.
34 Lessons From Writing Every Day for Two Decades
I remember driving home from my high school graduation, excited. I was excited not because I was done with school but because of what I was about to start. I’d been working with a friend to put up my first website. I was going to be a writer. I’m sure whatever I wrote that day was terrible but that’s sort of the point. It was the first of many, many days. Two decades of days, in fact. I have been writing almost every day for twenty years. How many millions of words is that? I don’t know.
This Is The Greatest Novel Ever (And Why I Keep Re-Reading It)
It changed my life. The Great Gatsby changed my life. I don’t mean that the way some writers might. Yes, it is one of the best and most beautiful novels in the English language. But The Great Gatsby first changed my life not by reading it, but by writing about it. In 2004, my 11th-grade English teacher assigned us an essay.
38 (Or So) Lessons On The Way To 38
There is something melancholic about birthdays. I’m not the first to notice this. Another year has gone by, a wise man once said, and we can’t help but note how little we’ve grown. “No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge,” he said, “with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it’s not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives…this is who we are to the bitter end…..inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing.” Marcus Aurelius?
Praktykuj pragmatyzm [FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI]
Prezydent Stanów Zjednoczonych Jimmy Carter prowadzi pierwszą ogólnokrajową telewizyjną konferencję prasową swojej administracji. Waszyngton, 8 lutego 1977 Fragment z książki "Postępuj słusznie, tu i teraz. Dobre wartości, dobry charakter, dobre czyny" o tym, czy można być jednocześnie uczciwym i skutecznym. Jimmy Carter postąpił słusznie w dniu inauguracji na urząd prezydenta w 1971 roku. Jako gubernator nic na tym nie stracił, bo w Georgii był to wówczas urząd sprawowany przez jedną kadencję.
These Are All The Ways I Feel Poorer Than I Am
Financially, I’m doing pretty well. My books sell more than you’d think books about ancient philosophy would sell (actually, you can preorder the new one here)…and it turns out that starting a bookstore in a small town in rural Texas was not actually the dumbest business idea in the world. I was lucky to have a decent ten years in marketing before I became a full-time author, and I made some good investments along the way. I’ve saved and I try to live within my means.
You Are What You Won’t Do For Money
It was a sales pitch, so I take it with a grain of salt, but according to an email I got a few weeks ago, I have a seven-figure opportunity sitting in front of me. And I’m apparently too stupid or closed-minded to see it. All I would have to do is partner with a supplement maker and produce a line of supplements connected to the Daily Stoic brand — marketing their ability to help with “calm, clarity, and resilience” — and I could very easily make several million dollars.
PW Studio: Audiobooks Nonfiction: SELF-IMPROVEMENT & SELF-HELP
All the Way to the River In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Gilbert NARRATOR: TK PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House Audio (Sep.) RUN TIME: Approx.
This Is How Smart People Get Smart (And Fools Get More Foolish)
In the fall of 1961, Commander James Stockdale began a course at Stanford he had eagerly anticipated on Marxist theory. “We read no criticisms of Marxism,” he recounted later, “only primary sources. All year we read the works of Marx and Lenin.” It might seem unusual that the Navy would send a 36-year-old fighter pilot to get a master’s degree in the humanities, but Stockdale knew why he was there.
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give
This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to Give We have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution. I was supposed to give a talk at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland on April 14. I found out about 20 minutes before I was due to go onstage that it wasn’t going to happen. The lecture was about wisdom and how to cultivate it.
4/20/25 National Security News and Commentary
Quotes of the Day: "The struggle itself towards the Heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." – AlbertCamus When plagiarism becomes a way of life for a group in a society, they eventually create a legal system that justifies the act, and a moral system that embellishes it. – Frederick Bastia "Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can’t Handle the Truth
Share For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom.Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the Nimitz library on campus?
These Are Leadership Ideas I Try To Apply Every Day
Coach Pete Carroll has said that another disappointing season with the New England Patriots — some 15 years into his career — it struck him that he didn’t actually have a coaching philosophy. He was mostly winging it. Inspired by John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success” philosophy, Carroll got to work filing binders with notes, compiling, defining, and codifying what would become known as his “Win Forever” philosophy — the winning actions and mindsets he aims to instill in his staff and players.
This Is Something I Am Forever Grateful For
Member-only story Ryan Holiday · Follow 9 min read · -- I would never say I am glad it happened. I don’t want to dismiss the tragedy and the disruption and the loss. But as I think about what happened five years ago, as I think about my life shutting down for the pandemic in March and April of 2020, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I see how it changed me. I see what it taught me. I see the trajectory it put me on.
21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor, George Raveling
Member-only story Ryan Holiday · Follow 12 min read · -- Like most people, I am a product of my mentors. But when I talk about one of the most influential people in my life, everyone usually assumes I am referring to Robert Greene. Robert, of course, taught me so much and I continue to learn from him. Actually…there’s someone else. Someone whose wisdom, generosity, and curiosity have shaped my life, work, and thinking more than almost anyone I’ve met.
The Fascinating Power Of Human Wormholes
Ryan Holiday · Follow 7 min read · -- One of the most mind-blowing experiences of my life happened on a porch in East Austin. I had brought George Raveling, then 80, to visit with Richard Overton, then 111. It struck me as these two kind and wise men chatted that I was in a sort of human wormhole.
Here’s How I’m Preparing For The Next Four Years
Ryan Holiday · Follow 14 min read · -- I can’t predict the future, but I feel pretty confident in predicting that the next four years are going to be crazy. For political reasons, sure, but we don’t need to agree about that. I know I am right because you can’t find a four-year period in history that wasn’t filled with chaos, upheaval, and uncertainty. Never forget, Seneca reminds us, Fortune has a habit of behaving exactly as she pleases. Why would the next four years be an exception to this rule?
In sport and business it pays to master the “art of acquiescence”
Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Excerpted from The Obstacle is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © Ryan Holiday, 2014, 2024. In 1922, a young, struggling, starving artist named Ernest Hemingway was trying to make his way as a writer in France.
Motivation Monday: These books will inspire you to reach your full potential
If you’ve been feeling low or demotivated, snuggle up with one of these pick-me-up books to shift your perspective. Embrace your elegant power by Nicky Rowbotham It’s not uncommon to experience fatigue or burnout towards the end of the year, signalling the need to permit yourself to pause for a physical or emotional boost. Author, Speaker, and leader in the professional space, Nicky’s latest offering allows you to do just that.
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