Stillness Is the Key

By: Ryan Holiday

Narrated by: Ryan Holiday

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller

In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead.

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 inactivity, but the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus.

Holiday also examines figures who exemplified the power of stillness: baseball player Sadaharu Oh, whose study of Zen made him the greatest home run hitter of all time; Winston Churchill, who in balancing his busy public life with time spent laying bricks and painting at his Chartwell estate managed to save the world from annihilation in the process; Fred Rogers, who taught generations of children to see what was invisible to the eye; Anne Frank, whose journaling and love of nature guided her through unimaginable adversity.

More than ever, people are overwhelmed. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Stillness Is the Key offers a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social media. The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning, contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever.

good

It says to find peace in work, and then says not to work too much.

Excellent in many ways

By far one of the best books on condensed philosophy. the author covered a lot of ground quite eloquently. the bookhas many good attributes to it and I consider it a must-read.

Ryan Holliday is great as always

if you have ever heard or read any of Ryan Holliday's other books you know how easy and pleasant of an experience they are.

love it

Ryan makes stoicism cool and reachable. makes you think and think about your life and your true self and meaning. thank you Ryan

Fascinating look at Stillness

This was the first book I’ve read from Holliday. I will be reading them all! I really enjoyed this book. This is a a topic not discussed very often. I really enjoyed the historical examples throughout and how they approached stillness. I especially enjoyed the cautionary tales of Tiger Woods, American apparel, and John F Kennedy as well. This is a quick easy Listen!