| International Standard Book Number |
9780593191736 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593191730 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Holiday, Ryan, author.
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| Title Statement |
Wisdom takes work : learn. apply. repeat. / Ryan Holiday.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xxiii, 374 pages ; 19 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Stoic virtues series
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The four virtues -- Introduction -- I. THE AGOGE (your training ground). A most unusual education... Talk to the dead -- Be curious -- Ask the question -- Focus, focus, focus -- Learn to listen -- Create a second brain -- Find your classroom -- Find your teacher -- Become an apprentice -- Join a scene -- Study the past -- Hit the road -- Acquire experience -- Mens sana in corpore sano . . . -- II. THE SIRENS (the perilous rocks you must beware). The storm within -- Empty the cup -- Write to think right -- Assemble your board of directors -- Don't be a know-it-all -- Watch your information diet -- Think for yourself -- Don't break your brain -- Change your mind -- Grow up -- Don't be a snowflake -- Seek criticism -- Make mistakes -- Go deep -- Don't fall for it -- Understand people -- From humility to wisdom . . . III. THE APOTHEOSIS (touching the divine). Shrewd, sensible, sound, strong . . . -- Practice empathy -- Be humble -- Always stay a student -- Be a teacher -- Embrace the mystery -- Be self-aware -- Free yourself -- Be happy -- Suffer into truth -- Laugh -- Don't lose the wonder -- Grasp the essence -- Pass the final test -- Wisdom is virtue. Virtue is wisdom.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Of all the stoic virtues -- courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom -- wisdom is the most elusive. This is especially apparent in an age where reaction and idle chatter are rewarded, and restraint and thoughtfulness are unfashionable. The great statesman and philosophers of the past would not be fooled, as we are, by headlines or appearances or the primal pull of tribalism. They knew too much of history, of their own flaws, of the need for collaboration to do any of that. That's wisdom -- and we need it more than ever. Wisdom is Ryan Holiday's guiding principle, and Wisdom Takes Work is the culmination of all his work. Drawing on fascinating stories of the ancient and modern figures alike, Holiday shows how to cultivate wisdom through reading, self-education, and experience. Through the lives of Montaigne, Seneca, Joan Didion, Abraham Lincoln, and others, Holiday teaches us how to listen more than we talk, to think with nuance, to ruthlessly question our own beliefs, and to develop a method of self-education. He argues convincingly for the necessity of mental struggle and warns against taking shortcuts that deprive us of real knowledge. And he shows us how dangerous power and intelligence can be without the tempering influence of wisdom. An absence of curiosity and prudence is a catastrophe for all of us, argues Ryan Holiday. This incredibly timely book both diagnoses the greatest problem of our current moment and offers solutions for the way forward. Wisdom is work -- but it's worth it. -- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Learning.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Virtues.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Wisdom.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Self-help publications.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Instructional and educational works.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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