Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday

Michael’s playing time some thirty-one years earlier. Jordan knew that many people thought that his getting cut in high school w ...

underestimated, each time someone didn’t do things his way, it made him a better player. The problem is that he delivered almost ...

are fueled by love. Country. Compassion. Destiny. Reconciliation. Mastery. Idealism. Family. Even in Jordan’s case, he was most ...

pressure, the overworked heart, inching us closer to the attack that will put us in the hospital or the grave. We can pretend we ...

Clearly, basketball was a refuge for Michael Jordan, a game he loved and that provided him much satisfaction. But in the pursuit ...

I ALL IS ONE All that you behold, that which comprises both god and man, is one—we are the parts of one great body. —SENECA n 19 ...

The Christian word for this term is agape. It is the ecstasy of love from a higher power, the sheer luck and good fortune of bei ...

worked to heal. We can seek understanding with those we disagree with. Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner. To understand all i ...

ambitious or the creative, since they live so much in their own heads and in their own bubble. Finding the universal in the pers ...

thing well, because they understand that it is a way to treat themselves well. We are one big collective organism engaged in one ...

L ON TO WHAT’S NEXT... Very few go astray who comport themselves with restraint. —CONFUCIUS ’essentiel est invisible pour les ye ...

champion Kerri Walsh Jennings has said makes her such a killer on the court. Some ancient traditions have held that the soul is ...

PART III MIND ♦ SPIRIT ♦ BODY We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. —HENRY D ...

W THE DOMAIN OF THE BODY inston Churchill had a productive life. He first saw combat at age twenty-one, and wrote his first best ...

As Paul Johnson, one of Churchill’s best biographers, would write, “The balance he maintained between flat-out work and creative ...

the fatigues of the day.” Yet like Theodore Roosevelt before him, he cultivated inside this frail body an indomitable soul and a ...

As a writer, he was gaspingly productive. While holding political office, Churchill managed to publish seven books between 1898 ...

record. His service in the wartime administration had been marked by some major failures, but he had redeemed himself by resigni ...

of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance to a public man,” he wrote. “To be really happy a ...

How necessary this turned out to be, because in 1929 his stunning political career suddenly came to what appeared to be an ignom ...