Ryan Holiday
Trust Me, I'm Lying is a notable work by Ryan Holiday, a writer, journalist, marketer, manager, and entrepreneur who has produced books across multiple subjects throughout his career.
Holiday was born on June 16, 1987, in Sacramento, California, and is a United States citizen. He attended Granite Bay High School before studying at the University of California, Riverside. His professional life has encompassed work as a writer, journalist, marketer, manager, and entrepreneur, and he has written in the English language throughout his career.
His notable works include The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, Growth Hacker Marketing, and The Daily Stoic, alongside Trust Me, I'm Lying. These titles represent the range of his output as a writer working across different subjects, and together they constitute the body of work through which he has operated in his overlapping roles as author, marketer, and entrepreneur.
The authorized form of his name in the Library of Congress Name Authority File is recorded as "Holiday, Ryan," reflecting the formal cataloguing of his published output. Among his notable works, The Daily Stoic stands as a concrete marker of his continued activity as a writer producing book-length work for a general English-language readership.
Quotes by Ryan Holiday
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Our actions may be impeded..but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts ot its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.
Eagerly anticipating some future event, passionately imagining something you desire, looking forward to some happy scenario as pleasurable as these activities might seem, they ruin your chance at happiness here and now.
Frame your thought like this. You are an old person, you won't let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you'll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.
People don't want to praise their contemporaries whos lives they actually share, but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations.
For any challenges we should hold three thoughts at our command. 'Lead on God and Destiny.
Your ego screams for people to acknowledge you. But you must do nothing. Take it. Eat it until you’re sick. Endure it. Quietly brush it off and work harder.
Social media influencers are straight-up mercenary. Through various ad networks, you can actually pay influential accounts to post pre-written messages or endorse products.
The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, no adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort. Our intention is not to be thanked or recognized, but to help and to do what we think is right.