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Discipline is Destiny
Discipline is Destiny

Discipline Is Destiny guides readers down the path to self-mastery, upon which all the other stoic virtues—courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom—depend.

2022

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Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday

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May 17

31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money

I remember learning how to play the recorder in elementary school. I remember square dancing. I remember cursive. I built a model of a Spanish mission out of sugar cubes. Some of this was fun. Some of it wasn’t. Some of it probably contributed, in some indirect way, to my…

Money

10 min read

31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
31 Lessons I’ve Learned About Money
Money

10 min read


May 3

This Is Why You Can’t Wait Until Later

At 6:45pm on Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014, I got an email from my friend Seth Roberts, the pioneering and peerless scientist. I opened it, saw that it was to be the first of a long awaited column called “Personal Science” for the Observer, where I was then an editor. I…

Philosophy

4 min read

This Is Why You Can’t Wait Until Later
This Is Why You Can’t Wait Until Later
Philosophy

4 min read


Apr 19

When You’re Too Busy Aiming For It, You Miss The Moments In Front Of You

It’s one of those lines we throw out casually: “I want to spend more ‘quality time’… ” whether it’s with friends, with family, with your kids, or with yourself. We spend an inordinate amount of money and effort at creating opportunities to get this time too. We plan for it…

Philosophy

6 min read

When You’re Too Busy Aiming For It, You Miss The Moments In Front Of You
When You’re Too Busy Aiming For It, You Miss The Moments In Front Of You
Philosophy

6 min read


Apr 12

15 Questions That Will Make You A Better Parent (and Person)

As parents, we worry about having all the right answers. But I think it’s better to focus on asking the right questions. The right question at the right time can change the course of a life, can still a turbulent situation, can provide a totally different perspective. While every situation…

Parenting

14 min read

15 Questions That Will Make You A Better Parent (and Person)
15 Questions That Will Make You A Better Parent (and Person)
Parenting

14 min read


Mar 27

2 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore

It is only from doing hard things, the Stoics said, that we learn what we’re capable of. A little over three years ago, my wife and I had the craziest idea we’ve ever had in our lives: to open a bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. Opening a small business is always…

Philosophy

9 min read

2 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
2 Years Of Lessons From Running My Own Bookstore
Philosophy

9 min read


Mar 10

This Decision Changed My Life and My Business

I know someone that spends close to $20,000 a month on a publicist. I know an author who spends something like that out of their own pocket each month on what’s called co-op, or extra prominent placement at airport bookstores. I know many people who spend more than that on…

Business

6 min read

This Decision Changed My Life and My Business
This Decision Changed My Life and My Business
Business

6 min read


Feb 22

19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)

Marcus Aurelius never claimed to be a Stoic. Gregory Hays, one of Marcus Aurelius’s best translators, writes in his introduction to Meditations, “If he had to be identified with a particular school, [Stoicism] is surely the one he would have chosen. …

Philosophy

10 min read

19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)
19 Rules For A Better Life (From Marcus Aurelius)
Philosophy

10 min read


Feb 10

11 Important Things I’m Thinking About In 2023​

Marcus Aurelius thought a lot about thinking. “Our life is dyed by the color of our thoughts,” he wrote. So naturally, he tried to be thoughtful about what he thought and how he thought. …

Motivation

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11 Important Things I’m Thinking About In 2023​
11 Important Things I’m Thinking About In 2023​
Motivation

5 min read


Jan 25

20 Best Lessons From Interviewing Today’s Top Performers

I’m not saying everyone should start a podcast. In fact, I have said the opposite many times. There are way too many of them out there…and most are not good. I’m just saying that having a podcast is pretty magical because you get (for free) something that no amount of…

Stoicism

8 min read

20 Best Lessons From Interviewing Today’s Top Performers
20 Best Lessons From Interviewing Today’s Top Performers
Stoicism

8 min read


Jan 12

If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These

It’d be wonderful if a new year magically marked a new beginning. But 2022, like all years, reminded us that the same things keep happening, that world events continue on in their own unpredictable way and that in the end, we control very little but our own actions and opinions. …

Philosophy

9 min read

If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These
If You Only Read A Few Books In 2023, Read These
Philosophy

9 min read

Ryan Holiday

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