Ryan Holiday
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy; writes the Reading List book-recommendation email and owns The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas.
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Their wordsIt is fine if you want to be a Chipotle. There's nothing wrong with building something large if that's genuinely what you set out to do.
↗The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Wantryanholiday.net 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsBut in my experience, most people actually don't really think at all about what they're setting out to do. They don't sit down and consider what success would look like for them, what "enough" would feel like, what winning their particular game would mean.
↗The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Wantryanholiday.net 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are plenty of billionaires who don't have it, plenty of ordinary people who have never lost it. So it doesn't take some enormous amount of money.
↗The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Wantryanholiday.net 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsIt takes discipline. The discipline to figure out what you actually want your life to look like. The discipline to turn down cool, lucrative opportunities.
↗The Discipline Required To Create The Life You Wantryanholiday.net 4th of 4 in this piece
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The right book encountered at the right time can change the whole course of a person's life.
Their wordsThe right book at the right time is a powerful thing. In fact, it can change the whole course of your life.
↗For Nearly 2,000 Years, This Is Who People Have Turned To When Life Gets Hardryanholiday.net
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Their wordsA library is not an endorsement of every book inside it. Reading something is not the same as agreeing with it.
↗This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)ryanholiday.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAmerica is, and always has been, in less danger of top-down Chinese- or Soviet-style suppression and much more vulnerable to short-sighted or even well-intentioned democratic censorship.
↗This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)ryanholiday.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsPeople are willing to ban a book because of what they think might be in it, or because of what someone else said was in it.
↗This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)ryanholiday.net 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 2 months earlier
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Their wordsThere are unfortunately no tricks to cultivating this ability. You can’t read your way to it. You can’t think your way to it. You just gotta do it. You make the pitch. You get up on the stage. You deliver the pre-game speech. You give the toast. And then you do it again and again.
↗This Is Something You Have To Get Good Atryanholiday.net 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIt is scary to get up there. But it gets less scary the more you do it. Confidence is built by competence, there’s no way around it.
↗This Is Something You Have To Get Good Atryanholiday.net 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Learning to think by writing is slow, tedious, difficult work that takes discipline and patience.
Their wordsThis is slow, tedious, difficult work. It takes discipline and patience. The hours and hours of sitting with frustration and confusion.
↗This Is The Most Important Skill You Can Have In Liferyanholiday.net
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsI promised myself a long time ago that if I saw a book that interested me I’d never let time or money or anything else prevent me from having it. This means that I treat reading with a certain amount of respect.
- 6 years earlier
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Their wordsWhen you are pursuing a craft you realize that the better you get, the humbler you are.
↗25 Ways To Kill The Toxic Ego That Will Ruin Your Liferyanholiday.net