1: What is the one strategy that is the most effective to overcome the seemingly endless problems that affect us as individuals and as a…
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all…
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On…
“In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full…
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.” -Marcus Aurelius 1: The year was 1966. Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was…
1: Don’t just stand there. Do something. Really? Not always, Ryan Holiday writes in The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.…
How has University of Alabama coach Nick Saban built “perhaps the most dominant dynasty in the history of college football?” asks Ryan Holiday in The…
1: Steve Jobs’ father prided himself on being a craftsman. He would finish the back of the cabinets he built even though they would be…
1: The year was 1863. General Ulysses S. Grant was stuck. For a year, he and his troops had tried to crack the defenses of…
1: The year was 1878. Thomas Edison was a man on a mission. Day and night, he experimented with more than six thousand different filaments…
1: The year was 1915. Deep in the jungles of Central America, two rival American fruit companies urgently wanted to acquire the same five thousand…
1: During the first part of World War II, the worst assignment for British troops was being sent to fight in North Africa. “Methodical and…
1: It was 1974. Major League pitcher Tommy John blew out his arm. He damaged the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow. Permanently. They…
“At 150 miles above Earth in a spaceship smaller than a VW,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle Is the Way, panic “is death. Panic…
“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.” -Teddy Roosevelt 1: Ulysses S.…
The king believed his people had grown soft and entitled. He decided to teach them a lesson. 1: “His plan was simple: He would place…
“A deer’s brain tells it to run because things are bad,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle is the Way. “It runs. Sometimes, right into…
1: The German Blitzkrieg (translation: lightning war) was one of the most menacing and terrifying developments in modern warfare. Having lost World War I in…
1: “This issue. This obstacle—this frustrating, unfortunate, problematic, unexpected problem preventing [us] from doing what [we] want to do,” writes Ryan Holiday in The Obstacle…
1: The year was 170 A.D. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, sat down to write. Perhaps it was “at night in his…