Stillness Is the Key

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller. In The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, bestselling author Ryan Holiday made ancient wisdom wildly popular with a new generation of leaders in sports, politics, and technology. In his new book, Stillness Is the Key, Holiday draws on timeless Stoic and Buddhist philosophy to show why slowing down is the secret weapon for those charging ahead. All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality.

Ryan Holiday calls it stillnessto 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 selfmastery, discipline, and focus. 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.