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Courage Is Calling

Fortune Favors the Brave

Ryan Holiday

Profile Books, 2021

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Everyone feels the call to display courage at key points in their lives. Wise people listen to that calling and take action, writes best-selling author and podcast host Ryan Holiday. Courage is an essential component of living a virtuous life, he explains, yet it’s rarer than it should be because far too many people choose to live in fear. Drawing from sources such as Stoic philosophy and comparative mythology, Holiday exhorts readers toward courageous self-actualization with calm, clear advice. Fear-based decisions may help you feel safe, but raise the biggest risk of all, he says: wasting your short time on earth “playing small.”

Take-Aways

Four virtues – courage, temperance, justice and wisdom – comprise the good life.
Courageous action is a rarity because many people live in fear.
Believe in your own agency to live an authentic self-actualized life.

About the Author

Host of The Daily Stoic podcast Ryan Holiday also wrote Trust Me, I’m Lying, Ego Is the Enemy, Conspiracy and The Obstacle Is the Way.

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