Ryan Holiday Quote
When Arthur Lee was sent to France and England to serve as one of America’s diplomats during the Revolutionary War, instead of relishing the opportunity to work with his fellow diplomat Silas Deane and elder statesman Benjamin Franklin, he raged and resented them and suspected them of disliking him. Finally, Franklin wrote him a letter (one that we’ve probably all deserved to get at one point or another): If you do not cure yourself of this temper, Franklin advised, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner. Probably because he was in such command of his own temper, Franklin decided that writing the letter was cathartic enough. He never sent it.
Ryan Holiday
When Arthur Lee was sent to France and England to serve as one of America’s diplomats during the Revolutionary War, instead of relishing the opportunity to work with his fellow diplomat Silas Deane and elder statesman Benjamin Franklin, he raged and resented them and suspected them of disliking him. Finally, Franklin wrote him a letter (one that we’ve probably all deserved to get at one point or another): If you do not cure yourself of this temper, Franklin advised, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner. Probably because he was in such command of his own temper, Franklin decided that writing the letter was cathartic enough. He never sent it.
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About Ryan Holiday
Prior to becoming an author, Holiday served as the former director of marketing and eventually an advisor for American Apparel. Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Holiday's notable works include his books on Stoic philosophy, such as The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is the Key, Discipline is Destiny, Courage is Calling, and Lives of the Stoics. He is controversial for his marketing of Stoicism in the form of "Memento Mori" coins and selling courses and calendars.