Ryan Holiday
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Ryan Holiday is an American author and marketer, born in 1987. He left college at nineteen to work in media and marketing — including as marketing director for American Apparel — before founding his own creative agency and turning to writing full-time.
Holiday translates ancient Stoic philosophy into practical guidance for modern life, drawing on figures like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus and pairing their ideas with contemporary stories.
His books — among them The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the number-one New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key — have sold more than five million copies, appear in over forty languages, and have spent more than 300 weeks on bestseller lists.
Holiday writes as a popularizer and interpreter of Stoic philosophy rather than an academic; some see him as making an ancient tradition accessible, others as simplifying it. Maybe presents his work for you to weigh.
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