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A review by teelock
Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
5.0
If you’re a fan of Ryan Holiday, you will enjoy this book. It’s his most action-oriented book out of all the ones he has written. He is actually telling you what to do. In a podcast Holiday did for the book, he said each person should do three things every day: journal (for the mind), take a walk (for the spirit), and do some sort of strenuous exercise (for the body).
That seems like good advice in general.
If you’ve never heard of Ryan Holiday, some of his books can come across as preachy or new-age self-help. The reason Holiday is different than other authors in this pop-psychology, self-help genre is that he validates his writing with stories and experiences of the greatest people throughout history.
Holiday isn’t writing anything ground-breaking. Instead, he distils the information of authors and thinkers across the decades and distils them in a way that makes them enjoyable to learn about. For that reason alone, this and his other books are valuable. And if you do like this, check out Cal Newport, who talks about a lot of the same stuff in deep work and digital minimalism.
That seems like good advice in general.
If you’ve never heard of Ryan Holiday, some of his books can come across as preachy or new-age self-help. The reason Holiday is different than other authors in this pop-psychology, self-help genre is that he validates his writing with stories and experiences of the greatest people throughout history.
Holiday isn’t writing anything ground-breaking. Instead, he distils the information of authors and thinkers across the decades and distils them in a way that makes them enjoyable to learn about. For that reason alone, this and his other books are valuable. And if you do like this, check out Cal Newport, who talks about a lot of the same stuff in deep work and digital minimalism.