"It's people trying to make sense of the world, trying to find some bearings in a confusing, overwhelming thing called human existence." Ryan Holiday is a best-selling author and a student of stoic ...

The ancient Stoic philosophers don’t know it, but their chief marketing officer is an American named Ryan Holiday. He’s the self-created founder of the modern Stoicism movement, distilling the ...

For “Routine Excellence,” GQ asks creative, successful people about the practices, habits, and routines that get them through their day. Last month, the author Ryan Holiday released his sixteenth book ...

A wave of gurus has mined the philosophy’s humble precepts for generic motivational material In the mid-’90s, not long after I graduated from college, a friend insisted I read “The Manual,” by the ...