This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker’s CEO and founder, out of a job. Thiel’s sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn’t consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. In the tradition of Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer and Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws Of Power, author Ryan Holiday examines the case that rocked the media world-and the billionaire mastermind behind it Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning, contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever. Stillness Is the Key offers a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social media. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Holiday also examines figures who exemplified the power of stillness: baseball player Sadaharu Oh, whose study of Zen made him the greatest home run hitter of all time Winston Churchill, who in balancing his busy public life with time spent laying bricks and painting at his Chartwell estate managed to save the world from annihilation in the process Fred Rogers, who taught generations of children to see what was invisible to the eye Anne Frank, whose journaling and love of nature guided her through unimaginable adversity. 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 self-mastery, discipline, and focus.
In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness–to be steady while the world spins around you. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. It enables them to conquer their tempers. 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.Īll great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. 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. You can get a personalized, signed copy of all books at BookPeople-simply order via their website! Stillness is the Key
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