{"id":2687,"date":"2022-10-06T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:00:23","slug":"review-discipline-is-destiny-the-power-of-self-control-by-ryan-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-discipline-is-destiny-the-power-of-self-control-by-ryan-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Discipline is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control, by Ryan Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What we know about an author affects how we read their books.  Ryan Holiday is a young businessman, a college dropout, who lives on a ranch in Texas and writes about things like marketing.  Had I know that, would I have picked up a book he wrote about philosophy?  Probably not.  But I knew nothing at all about the author when I read this book, which is a good thing.  Holiday is on a mission to make the writings of the ancient Greek and Roman stoics seem <em><strong>cool<\/strong><\/em>.  To do that, he tells stories &#8212; very much like Malcolm Gladwell, though not as good &#8212; using well-known figures like the late Queen Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Martin Luther King and endless American sports figures I&#8217;ve never heard of.  The stories are often quite good, sometimes even moving.  As the author intended, the book (the second in a series he&#8217;s writing about Stoic virtues) has awakened my interest in the subject of Stoicism.  It has also strengthened my own commitment to increased self-discipline.  The writing style is very informal, the examples pretty much all American, but it&#8217;s a fast read, very accessible, and you will learn stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we know about an author affects how we read their books. Ryan Holiday is a young businessman, a college dropout, who lives on a ranch in Texas and writes about things like marketing. Had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}