Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

know what to expect because they’ve been through so much. They’ve made mistakes and learned from them. And so must you. Wrestle ...

I FIND CONFIDENCE, AVOID EGO Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with i ...

David knew his strengths, but he also knew his weaknesses. “I cannot go in these,” he said after trying on a soldier’s armor, “b ...

too big. The writer Franz Kafka, the son of an overbearing and disapproving father, likened imposter syndrome to the feeling of ...

riches story his life was—almost like the plot of an epic poem—to go from that cabin to the presidency. Grant shrugged. “Well I ...

also learned that he could count on himself and that he could get through it—if he kept his head. Whatever happened, he told him ...

T LET GO Work done for a reward is much lower than work done in the Yoga of wisdom. Set thy heart upon thy work, but never on it ...

But detachment and purposelessness don’t exactly sound like productive attitudes, do they? That was exactly the kind of vexing p ...

“Everyone tries to shoot naturally,” Kenzo wrote, “but nearly all practitioners have some kind of strategy, some kind of shallow ...

pure, but also attainable and lowly. It is simultaneously attached and detached. This is the balance we want to strike. If we ai ...

T ON TO WHAT’S NEXT... If the mind is disciplined, the heart turns quickly from fear to love. —JOHN CAGE he stakes of what each ...

moment. Then back out into the city, back to the old routines and pulled by endless desires and bad habits, as if that experienc ...

PART II MIND ♦ SPIRIT ♦ BODY Most of us would be seized with fear if our bodies went numb, and would do everything possible to a ...

I THE DOMAIN OF THE SOUL n retrospect, it was one of the finest moments in golf, perhaps in all of sports. In June 2008, Tiger W ...

fire hydrant and the back windows smashed by a golf club. Unconscious, his wife weeping over him, he was, for a moment, still, i ...

again. For the first year of Tiger’s life, fatherhood mostly involved strapping the baby in a high chair while hitting golf ball ...

That’s what it is for a child to hear his father taunt him as he tries to play a sport, to call him a “motherfucker” while he’s ...

loved golf and he loved the work of it. So he got better and better. By the time he was three, he was beating ten-year-olds. By ...

We can imagine Tiger Woods, like so many successful people, getting less happy the more he achieved. Less freedom. Less and less ...

so many of us, Tiger had unconsciously replicated the most painful and worst habits of his parents. Some have looked at those fr ...