Il y a près de 2000 ans., l’empereur romain Marc Aurèle écrivait : « Mes activités peuvent bien être entravées, mais mon élan spontané et ma disposition ne peuvent être entravés, parce que je puis choisir entre mes actes et renverser l’obstacle. L’intelligence, en effet, pour tendre au but qui la guide, renverse et déplace tout obstacle à son activité. Ce qui suspendait cette action devient action, et route ce qui barrait cette route. »

À travers les siècles, nombreux sont ceux qui ont recouru au stoïcisme pour surmonter leurs difficultés. Outre les Grecs et les Romains dans l’Antiquité, Frédéric II, Montaigne, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Adam Smith et Théodore Roosevelt figuraient au rang des adeptes de cette école de pensée. Chaque année, l’ancien président américain Bill Clinton étudie les textes de Marc Aurèle. De même, Wen Jiabao, ancien Premier ministre chinois, a lu ses Pensées pour moi-même « plus d’une centaine de fois ».
S’inspirant de cette école de pensée, Ryan Holiday nous emmène dans un voyage à travers le temps et nous explique comment utiliser les principes éminents du stoïcisme pour transformer les obstacles en opportunités.

Ryan HOLIDAY est consultant en communication et a travaillé pour de nombreux auteurs best-sellers et musiciens multi-récompensés. Il a également été directeur de la communication chez American Apparel pendant de nombreuses années. Ses campagnes publicitaires ont servi d’études de cas pour Twitter, YouTube ou Google. Il est également l’auteur des deux best-sellers internationaux Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator et Ego is the enemy.

Tous les grands dirigeants, penseurs, artistes, athlètes et visionnaires partagent une qualité indéniable, qui leur permet de conquérir leurs esprits, d’éviter les distractions et découvrir de grandes idées, d’atteindre le bonheur et faire ce qui est juste.

Ryan Holiday appelle cela le calme, c'est-à-dire être stable pendant que le monde tourne autour de vous. Il trace un chemin pour atteindre ce mode de vie ancien, mais nécessaire et urgent.
S'appuyant sur un large éventail de grands penseurs de l'histoire, de Confucius à Sénèque, de Marc-Aurèle à Nietzsche, il soutient que le calme n'est pas une simple inactivité, mais la porte de la maîtrise de soi, de la discipline et de la concentration.
Le calme que nous recherchons tous est la voie du sens, du contentement et de l'excellence dans un monde qui en a plus que jamais besoin.

Ryan HOLIDAY est consultant en communication et a travaillé pour de nombreux auteurs best-sellers et musiciens multi-récompensés. Il a également été directeur de la communication chez American Apparel pendant de nombreuses années. Ses campagnes publicitaires ont servi d’études de cas pour Twitter, YouTube ou Google.
Il est l’auteur de nombreux best-sellers internationaux traduits en 20 langues.

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller.

Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.

The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms.

By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well. 

À une époque qui glorifie les réseaux sociaux, la télé-réalité et d'autres formes d'autopromotion sans vergogne, la lutte contre l'ego doit être menée sur de nombreux fronts.

En début de carrière, il entrave l’apprentissage et le développement des talents. Avec le succès, il peut aveugler et semer des problèmes futurs. En cas d'échec, il amplifie chaque coup et rend la récupération plus difficile. À chaque étape, l'ego nous retient. Ryan Holiday s'appuie sur de nombreux exemples, allant de la littérature à la philosophie en passant par l'histoire : George Marshall, Angela Merkel et Eleanor Roosevelt ont atteint le pouvoir et le succès en conquérant leur propre ego ; au contraire Napoléon, Lance Armstrong ou Dick Cheney ont commis des erreurs majeures à cause de leur ego et ces dernières les ont menés à leur perte. Leurs stratégies et tactiques pour aspirer à la grandeur sans se faire dévorer par leur ego deviennent les nôtres grâce à cet ouvrage. La stratégie de la "toile blanche", arrêter de parler et agir, apprendre la concentration, instaurer des niveaux de performance, accepter l'échec et savoir se remettre en question... Autant d'outils à maîtriser pour faire face à cet ennemi universel qu'est l'ego.

Ryan HOLIDAY est consultant en communication et a travaillé pour de nombreux auteurs best-sellers et musiciens multi-récompensés. Il a également été directeur de la communication chez American Apparel pendant de nombreuses années. Ses campagnes publicitaires ont servi d’études de cas pour Twitter, YouTube ou Google. Il est l’auteur de nombreux best-sellers internationaux traduits en 20 langues.

"Dans son nouveau livre Ryan Holidy s'attaque au plus grand obstacle au succès de la vie : notre ego insatiable. D'une manière à la fois inspirante et pratique, il nous enseigne comment gérer et apprivoiser cette bête en nous afin que nous puissions nous concentrer sur ce qui compte vraiment : produire le meilleur travail possible." - Robert Greene, auteur de Power, les 48 lois du pouvoir (+ de 60 000 ex vendus)

Le journal de Marc Aurèle, la correspondance de Sénèque, les entretiens d’Épictète, ancien esclave devenu maître influent... Ces obscurs feuillets constituent les fondements de la philosophie du stoïcisme et, deux millénaires plus tard, recèlent des enseignements d’une actualité criante.

Dans ce calendrier perpétuel, Ryan Holiday rend au stoïcisme sa juste place en tant qu’instrument dans la quête de la maîtrise de soi, de la persévérance, de la résilience et de l’épanouissement. Chaque jour de l'année, découvrez une nouvelle citation et le court appareil critique qui l’accompagne pour appliquer ces préceptes dans votre vie et déployer tout votre potentiel.

Internationalement reconnu, Ryan Holiday a révolutionné le marketing traditionnel. Auteur des best-sellers L’obstacle est le chemin (Alisio, 2018), L’ego est l’ennemi (Alisio, 2019) et Le calme est la clé (Alisio, 2020), ses ouvrages sont traduits dans plus de trente langues.
Stephen Henselman a travaillé plus de 30 ans dans l’édition comme libraire, éditeur et agent littéraire. Diplômé de Harvard, il vit aujourd’hui avec sa famille dans le New Jersey.

OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD
#1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller
'Follow these precepts and you will revolutionize your life.' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art
'A book for the bedside of every future - and current - leader in the world.' - Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do.

The book's many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), an Irish tennis pro (James McGee), the World Number 1 golfer (Rory McIlroy) and the coaches and players of winning teams like English Rugby National Team, the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Cubs.

The book draws its inspiration from stoicism, the ancient Greek philosophy of enduring pain or adversity with perseverance and resilience. Stoics focus on the things they can control, let go of everything else, and turn every new obstacle into an opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. As Marcus Aurelius put it nearly 2000 years ago: "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

Ryan Holiday shows us how some of the most successful people in history-from John D. Rockefeller to Amelia Earhart to Ulysses S. Grant to Steve Jobs-have applied stoicism to overcome difficult or even impossible situations. Their embrace of these principles ultimately mattered more than their natural intelligence, talents, or luck.

If you're feeling frustrated, demoralized, or stuck in a rut, this book can help you turn your problems into your biggest advantages. And along the way it will inspire you with dozens of true stories of the greats from every age and era.

Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.

Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows us how crucial stillness is, and how it can be cultivated in our own lives today. Just as Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey and baseball player Sadaharu Oh have done, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether building a business or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.

Stillness is the key to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world.

A powerful meditation on the nature and dangers of ego, from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness is the Key, and Obstacle is the Way - over 1 million copies sold

'Re-read it each year. It's that important' Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want

'Ryan Holiday is one of his generation's finest thinkers' Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art

'This is a book I want every athlete, aspiring leader, entrepreneur, thinker and doer to read' George Raveling, Nike's Director of International Basketball

'Inspiring yet practical' Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power


It's wrecked the careers of promising young geniuses. It's evaporated great fortunes and run companies into the ground. It's made adversity unbearable and turned struggle into shame. Every great philosopher has warned against it, in our most lasting stories and countless works of art, in all culture and all ages. Its name? Ego, and it is the enemy - of ambition, of success and of resilience.

In Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday shows us how and why ego is such a powerful internal opponent to be guarded against at all stages of our careers and lives, and that we can only create our best work when we identify, acknowledge and disarm its dangers. Drawing on an array of inspiring characters and narratives from literature, philosophy and history, the book explores the nature and dangers of ego to illustrate how you can be humble in your aspirations, gracious in your success and resilient in your failures.

The result is an inspiring and timely reminder that humility and confidence are our greatest friends when confronting the challenges of a culture that tends to fan the flames of ego, a book full of themes and life lessons that will resonate, uplift and inspire.

Recently, fake news has become real news, making headlines as its consequences become crushingly obvious in political upsets and global turmoil. But it's not new - you've seen it all before. A malicious online rumour costs a company millions. Politically motivated 'fake news' stories are planted and disseminated to influence elections. Some product or celebrity zooms from total obscurity to viral sensation. Anonymous sources and speculation become national conversation. What you don't know is that someone is responsible for all this. Usually, someone like Ryan Holiday: a media manipulator.

Holiday wrote this book to explain how media manipulators work, how to spot their fingerprints, how to fight them, and how (if you must) to emulate their tactics. Why is he giving away these secrets? Because he's tired of a world where trolls hijack debates, marketers help write the news, reckless journalists spread lies, and no one is accountable for any of it. He's pulling back the curtain because it's time everyone understands how things really work.

Your new business went online yesterday and you've got a marketing budget of zero. How are you supposed to create a movement around your product? How can you get to your first thousand - or million - customers? Starting from zero, it feels impossible.

Enter the growth hacker. You may not have heard of growth hacking yet, but you've certainly used the billion dollar brands built by it: Hotmail, AirBnB, Facebook, Dropbox, amongst many others.

Growth hackers thrive on doing what traditional businessmen would consider impossible: creating something from nothing. They 'hack' their company's growth to create a narrative of sensational success, turning excited media, users and social media into a viral marketing force that will help their business grow exponentially.

Silicon Valley has realized that growth hacking - not television commercials and billboards - is the successful start-up's secret weapon. Now growth hacker extraordinaire Ryan Holiday is ready to share his experience, teaching you how to harness the power of growth to propel you to success. Featuring insights from leading growth hackers, Growth Hacker Marketing is the essential guide to the revolutionary new approach to growing your business.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic - an inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitioners

A New York Times Noteworthy Pick

'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range

'Wonderful' - Chris Bosh, two-time NBA Champion

For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today's chaotic world. But who were the Stoics?

In this book, Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman offer a fresh approach to understanding Stoicism through the lives of the people who practiced it - from Cicero to Zeno, Cato to Seneca, Diogenes to Marcus Aurelius. Through short biographies of all the famous, and lesser-known, Stoics, this book will show what it means to live stoically, and reveal the lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes. The result is a treasure trove of insights for anyone in search of living a good life.