Stillness is the Key

Unlock the potential (and the peace) that you know is within you

All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality: the capacity for stillness. Sometimes cynically confused for idleness and ambivalence, stillness is actually the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus. It's impossible to charge ahead in life without it. Stillness enables high achievers to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing.

Holiday draws on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Christian monks, to show us what stillness is and how it might be achieved. He also examines many of the figures who exemplified its true power: baseball player Sadaharu Oh, whose study of Zen made him the greatest home run hitter of all time; Winston Churchill, who, in balancing his busy public life with time spent laying bricks and painting at his Chartwell estate, managed to save the world from annihilation; Fred Rogers, who taught generations of children to see what was invisible to the eye; Anne Frank, whose journaling and love of nature guided her through unimagi nable adversity.

None of us are immune from crisis. All of us are overwhelmed by work and information. We can all use a little help. Perfectly timed, and in the signature style that has inspired millions of readers around the world to embrace philosophy as a practical toolkit for better living, Ryan Holiday's newest book will equip you with everything you need to find stillness in your own life.

Author: Ryan Holiday

Publisher: Portfolio / Penguin

Released Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780525538585