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English
Description
All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness -- to be steady while the world spins around you. 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...
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Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigates the roots of philosophy, when it was still blended with science, and profiles five philosophers from the distant past, considering how their thinking contributed to society and civilizations.
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