Ryan Holiday

1 day 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.

5 days 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?

5 days 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?

1 week 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.

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

Member-only storyRyan Holiday·Follow9 min read·--I would never say I am glad it happened. I don’t want to dismiss the tragedy and the disruption and the loss. But as I think about what happened five years ago, as I think about my life shutting down for the pandemic in March and April of 2020, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I see how it changed me. I see what it taught me. I see the trajectory it put me on.