Ryan Holiday

1 week ago | ryanholiday.medium.com | Ryan Holiday

In the fall of 1961, Commander James Stockdale began a course at Stanford he had eagerly anticipated on Marxist theory. “We read no criticisms of Marxism,” he recounted later, “only primary sources. All year we read the works of Marx and Lenin.”It might seem unusual that the Navy would send a 36-year-old fighter pilot to get a master’s degree in the humanities, but Stockdale knew why he was there.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Ryan Holiday

This Is the Lecture That the Naval Academy Didn’t Want Me to GiveWe have gotten to a place where even a basic defense of intellectual freedom is now considered ‘too political’ for a government institution. I was supposed to give a talk at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland on April 14. I found out about 20 minutes before I was due to go onstage that it wasn’t going to happen. The lecture was about wisdom and how to cultivate it.

3 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Ryan Holiday

Share For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom.Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the Nimitz library on campus?

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Ryan Holiday

For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom. Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from the Nimitz library on campus?

3 weeks ago | ryanholiday.medium.com | Ryan Holiday

Coach Pete Carroll has said that another disappointing season with the New England Patriots — some 15 years into his career — it struck him that he didn’t actually have a coaching philosophy. He was mostly winging it. Inspired by John Wooden’s “Pyramid of Success” philosophy, Carroll got to work filing binders with notes, compiling, defining, and codifying what would become known as his “Win Forever” philosophy — the winning actions and mindsets he aims to instill in his staff and players.