Stillness Is the Key is an audiobook by Ryan Holiday, narrated by Ryan Holiday. The unabridged Audible edition runs 6 hrs 56 mins.
Publisher’s Summary
Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller & Wall Street Journal Bestseller
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. 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.
All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness–to be steady while the world spins around you.
In this book, he outlines a path for achieving this ancient, but urgently necessary way of living. 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.
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.
More than ever, people are overwhelmed. They face obstacles and egos and competition. Stillness Is the Key offers a simple but inspiring antidote to the stress of 24/7 news and social media. The stillness that we all seek is the path to meaning, contentment, and excellence in a world that needs more of it than ever.
Audiobook Details
- Narrated by: Ryan Holiday
- Length: 6 hrs 56 mins
- Publisher: Penguin Audio
- Release year: 2019
- Audible category: Business & Careers / Career Success / Motivation & Self-Improvement
Listener Ratings
Stillness Is the Key holds an average listener rating of 4.7/5 from 8577 Audible ratings.
On Audible, ratings for this title break down into narration performance and story separately:
- Performance (narration): 4.7/5
- Story: 4.7/5
- 5-star ratings: 82% of all ratings
What Audible Listeners Are Saying
4/5 stars — “good”
It says to find peace in work, and then says not to work too much.— Logan Erickson, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Excellent in many ways”
By far one of the best books on condensed philosophy. the author covered a lot of ground quite eloquently. the bookhas many good attributes to it and I consider it a must-read.— miranda o nelson, Audible listener
5/5 stars — “Ryan Holliday is great as always”
if you have ever heard or read any of Ryan Holliday’s other books you know how easy and pleasant of an experience they are.— Juan Perez Alvarez, Audible listener
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