Stillness Is the Key
by Ryan Holiday · first published 2019
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All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness--to be steady while the world spins around you. In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, he argues that stillness is not mere in
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…Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson - Ego is the Enemy, Stillness Is the Key, and The Obstacle Is the Way; all 3 books by Ryan Holiday - Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher[2] 1. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/books-of-2021/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reviving_Ophelia
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…about how we focus how our attention span various to the content. And it became obvious that we're losing long focus ability which is really hard to improve. For that there's really nice book called Stillness is the Key from Ryan Holiday and Chop wood and Carry Water they're perfect examples to teach how precious focus and stillness is.
on “Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?” ↗Seeing titles like "Courage is Calling", "Stillness is the Key", and "Trust Me, I'm Lying" only make me more confident in my point, not less. But, I'm not going to buy these books just to see if my hunch developed over 15 seconds is correct.
on “Lessons from Owning a Bookstore” ↗I’ve been working through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, reading Stillness is the Key and Siddhartha. The SICP might take me a year.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading Feb 2024” ↗