Ryan Holiday
The Difference Between Just Saying Something And Having Something Worth Saying
What we need from you is to take the time to figure out why people behave the way they do, what incentives they are responding to, and how that can be changed.
How To See Opportunity Where Others See A Roadblock
Being outnumbered, coming from behind, being low on funds, these don’t have to be disadvantages. They can be gifts. Assets that make us less likely to waste our time, our energy, or potentially even our lives.
Things I Learned Reading In 2014
I learned that binge reading is more fun than any other way.
Two Questions Every Writer Needs To Ask Themselves
The most important question a writer asks themselves is: What do I have to say? But more tactically, I think there are two other critical questions that writers need to ask themselves.
2 Simple Rules That Great Readers Live By (But Never Tell)
Read what keeps you reading, read what makes you better.
13 Quotes On Being Magnanimous From Aristotle
The boxer who loses but celebrates their opponent, the football player who offers a hand to the player they just tackled. The partner who lets someone else get all the credit.
Passion Is The Problem, Not The Solution
Here’s what those same people haven’t told you: your passion may be the very thing holding you back from success.
The 16 Best Books About Marketing, Period.
The world would be a better place if artists, entrepreneurs, executives and creative types got better at explaining and selling what they do. More great stuff would break through in this attention economy we live in.
Why Do You Do What You Do? Because You Better Know.
Especially if you work on anything remotely internet related. Because the amount of people making obscene, life-changing amounts of money doing what appears to be very little work is essentially infinite. Let me tell you, it doesn’t matter how well you’re doing, these people can make you feel like a chump.
Alive Time Vs. Dead Time: Which Are You In?
“The worst thing in life that you can have is a job that you hate, that you have no energy in, that you’re not creative with and you’re not thinking of the future. To me, might as well be dead.” — Robert Greene
What Is “Work Aversion,” And Do You Have It?
Work aversion is the the flipside of work addiction. They work together, in tandem.
So You’ve Just Dropped Out Of College (Or Made A Life-Changing Decision)
What should you do?