Ryan Holiday

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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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ambition 3

Most people never sit down to decide what success or "enough" would look like for them, and so end up chasing growth indiscriminately.
There is nothing wrong with building something large, as long as that is genuinely what someone set out to do.

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behavioural science 2

People often support banning a book based on assumptions about its content rather than on having read it themselves.
Most people never sit down to decide what success or "enough" would look like for them, and so end up chasing growth indiscriminately.

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censorship 2

Including a book in a library's collection, or reading it, is not the same as endorsing everything in it.
Democracies like America are more vulnerable to well-intentioned, bottom-up censorship than to top-down authoritarian suppression.

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courage 2

There are no tricks to pushing through fear: you cannot read or think your way to it, only do the thing, again and again.
Getting up in front of people gets less scary the more you do it, because confidence is built by competence.

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happiness 2

Contentment with what one has does not require great wealth — some billionaires lack it while many ordinary people never lose it.
Building the life you actually want takes discipline: to work out what you want, and to turn down cool, lucrative opportunities.

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