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Think with Ryan Holiday's tools

12 Stations through Holiday's three books, from seeing an obstacle clearly to acting on it, building discipline with moderation and writing a daily practice of your own.

We do not re-summarise three books; we connect them: perception and action from The Obstacle Is the Way, discipline and its limits from Discipline Is Destiny, and the daily rhythm of The Daily Stoic. Along the way we weigh what the stories prove. The order is a teaching order designed by BookYol, not the author's own.

Separating events from judgmentsActing on an obstacleWeighing stories as evidenceDiscipline with moderationDesigning a daily practice
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  1. 01An obstacle arrives without a label

    ~5 min

    from The Obstacle Is the Way

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  2. 02Steady Your Nerves Before You Decide

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  3. 03Sort what's yours from what isn't

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  4. 04Use the obstacle as your material

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  5. 05Missed? Read the Result, Then Change One Thing

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  6. 06Rehearse the Failure Before It Happens

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  7. Milestone

    The Obstacle as Material

    Your obstacle is split into event and verdict, the part that is up to you is written down, one step against it is taken, and three ways it could fail sit on paper with countermeasures.

  8. 07Weigh the stories behind the lessons

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    from The Obstacle Is the Way

  9. 08Do the Hard Thing Before the Easy Ones

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    from Discipline Is Destiny

  10. 09The Weekly Mirror: Discipline as Who You Are

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    from Discipline Is Destiny

  11. 10Strict with yourself, generous with others

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    from Discipline Is Destiny

  12. 11The daily loop: prepare, retreat, review

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    from The Daily Stoic

  13. 12Destination: write your own daily practice

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    from The Daily Stoic

  14. Milestone

    Destination: Your Own Practice

    A three-line card with a morning tool, a tool for the hard moment and an evening review is written, tried for seven days, and each tool has been kept, swapped or dropped.

The BookYol LetterTwo letters a week

For the road

The road is daily. The letter is weekly.

While you walk Think with Ryan Holiday's tools, two letters a week widen the view: a big idea on Tuesday and a small experiment on Friday, drawn from the same shelf of books.

Tuesday

The Big Idea

One idea that challenges an assumption, explained properly, with its source.

Friday

The Small Experiment

One small thing to try before Monday, so the idea becomes something you do.

Inside every letter

  1. 01The idea
  2. 02Why it works
  3. 03Where it comes from
  4. 04One thing to try

No spam, no selling your address. Just the letters.

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