Stillness is the key - Ryan Holiday
Summary
- Slow down and take time to think instead of being caught up with the mad rush that is modern life.
How I discovered it
- I have read his other books and quite enjoyed them Ego is the enemy - Ryan Holiday and The obstacle is the way - Ryan Holliday
How the book changed me
- I now have the goal of cultivating more stillness, more time to think and more mindfulness and consideration before acting
Details
- Leaders job is to think of the big picture
- Time is a tool
- Napoleon would wait 3 weeks before opening any mail
- Ignore the CNN effect - availability to too much information
- The value of keeping a journal
- There is no point in reading if you are not learning something
- Find people you admire and ask how they got where they are
- Even in adversity, find beauty in nature
- The interesting story of Winston Churchill
- Bill Gates think week alone in a cabin every year
- There is a time for many words and there is a time for sleep - Homer
- Zen master Hakuin prepared for his lecture by sleeping a lot
- British Prime Minister William Gladstone's hobby was chopping down trees by hand
- Find hobbies that are radically different from your day job
References
Quotes
- All of humanitys problems stem from mans inability to sit quietly in a room alone - Blaise Pascal
- Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save face - B. H. Liddell Hart
- Wealth of information creates poverty of attention - Herbert Simon
- If you wish to improve be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters - Epictetus
- Paper has more patience than people - Anne Frank
- [[Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it - Colin Powell
- To have blessings and to prize them is to be in Heaven, to have them and not to prize them is to be in Hell. . . . To prize them and not to have them is to be in Hell - Thomas Traherne]]
- Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down. - Winston Churchill
- It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth. - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Miserable human being in whom nothing is habitual but indecision - William James
- Lust is a destroyer of peace - Ryan Holliday