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Discipline Is Destiny

Ryan Holiday

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2022
  • 4 editions
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1 About this book

The second book in Ryan Holiday's series on the four Stoic virtues, after Courage Is Calling, this one on self-discipline. In short chapters on people such as Marcus Aurelius, Lou Gehrig and Queen Elizabeth II, he argues that discipline is what makes talent and success last.

Good for readers who want: self-improvement, Stoic philosophy, and philosophy.

  • Self-help
  • Stoics
  • Philosophy
  • Personal growth
  • Self-control

2 About Ryan Holiday

Born 1987

Ryan Clark Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American marketer and author operating at the intersection of ancient Stoic philosophy, contemporary self-improvement, and the ever-evolving landscape of personal development.. He became publicly notable to a partial extent for marketing Stoicism as a lifestyle and philosophy for modern people, and discernably, to a significant extent the philosophy advocated by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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