All great leaders,
thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible
quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction
and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right
thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness–to be steady while the world
spins around you.
In this book, he outlines a path for achieving
this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. Drawing on a wide
range of history’s greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus
Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche, he argues
that stillness is not mere inactivity, but the doorway to self-mastery,
discipline, and focus.
Holiday also examines figures who
exemplified the power of stillness: 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 in the process; 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 unimaginable adversity.
More than ever, people are overwhelmed. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Stillness Is the Key offers
a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social
media. The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning,
contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever.
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