This book will help you create a pocket of calm inside yourself.
The modern world overwhelms and distracts. Car horns, loud music, mobile phone alerts, notifications from social networks, jackhammers, and airplanes. Our desks are covered in papers, and our email inboxes are overflowing with messages. News about crises in the world pops up on every screen. Work tires you out and seems never to end.
How do you stop? How do you focus so you can think everything through well and make a balanced decision? What secret do those who manage to maintain concentration and composure in almost any situation know?
Self-development expert Ryan Holiday, a popular consultant for football coaches, Olympians, hip-hop stars, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, after analyzing the works of the greatest thinkers of all time—from Confucius to Seneca, from Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, from John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche—concluded that the main ingredient of success for outstanding leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and businessmen is calm.
In his brilliant book, he explains how to learn not to react to what’s going on around you and how to make full use of your abilities anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstances.