Ryan Holiday Quote
Here’s a lesson to test your mind’s mettle: take part of a week in which you have only the most meager and cheap food, dress scantly in shabby clothes, and ask yourself if this is really the worst that you feared. It is when times are good that you should gird yourself for tougher times ahead, for when Fortune is kind the soul can build defenses against her ravages. So it is that soldiers practice maneuvers in peacetime, erecting bunkers with no enemies in sight and exhausting themselves under no attack so that when it comes they won’t grow tired. —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 18.5–6
Ryan Holiday
Here’s a lesson to test your mind’s mettle: take part of a week in which you have only the most meager and cheap food, dress scantly in shabby clothes, and ask yourself if this is really the worst that you feared. It is when times are good that you should gird yourself for tougher times ahead, for when Fortune is kind the soul can build defenses against her ravages. So it is that soldiers practice maneuvers in peacetime, erecting bunkers with no enemies in sight and exhausting themselves under no attack so that when it comes they won’t grow tired. —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 18.5–6
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About Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, originally a marketer, who made a name writing books and marketing them in non-traditional ways.
Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Since then he has published a number of other books including The Obstacle Is the Way (2014) and Ego is the Enemy (2016).
Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Since then he has published a number of other books including The Obstacle Is the Way (2014) and Ego is the Enemy (2016).