Description

To master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions. This ancient virtue of self-control is more essential than ever.

In this bestselling book, Ryan Holiday makes the case for this essential virtue, and shows how to cultivate willpower, self-respect and focus. From Marcus Aurelius to Toni Morrison, Queen Elizabeth II to Martin Luther King Jr, history’s greats have all understood the power of directing your habits and setting your limits. History’s cautionary tales prove the same point, from catastrophic military overreaches to career-destroying habits: without self-discipline, we are lost before we can even begin.

Self-discipline is the key to our greatest ambitions and simplest joys: this book will show you how to find it, apply it and reap the rewards.

Publisher Review

All his books are gold, absolute gold, and this is just another golden brick in his literary wall. -- Chris Evans A powerful case for the virtues and values that leaders must live by in the modern world. -- Admiral James Stavridis, former NATO 16th Supreme Allied Commander Ryan Holiday has helped bring the ancient teaching of Stoicism to millions of readers - from athletes and politicians to CEOs. * Good Morning America * A brisk and absorbing read. -- Annie Duke, bestselling author * Thinking In Bets * Translates Stoicism ... into pithy catchphrases and digestible anecdotes for ambitious, twenty-first-century life hackers * New York Times * Ryan Holiday is a genius. ... All of his books are amazing - you have got to get into Ryan Holiday, it's as simple as that. If you don't, you're doing yourself a disfavour. -- Chris Evans Ryan Holiday is among the most psychologically wise writers I know. -- Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit Ryan Holiday is one of his generation's finest thinkers -- Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art [Ryan Holiday is a] self-help sage, who is now a sought-after guru to NFL coaches, Olympians, hip-hop stars, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs . . . [he] translates Stoicism, which had counted emperors and states men among its adherents during antiquity, into pithy catchphrases and digestible anecdotes for ambitious, twenty-first-century life hackers. * New York Times * I don't have many rules in life, but one I never break is: If Ryan Holiday writes a book, I read it as soon as I can get my hands on it. -- Brian Koppelman, screenwriter and director, Ocean's Thirteen and Billions