Review – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami is best known for writing surreal novels, but did you know he runs a marathon every year? What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a sort of memoir-slash-diary Murakami wrote while training for the NYC Marathon.
Review – Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday wants you to find stillness. He explores this concept through his usual lens of historic figures, repetition, and stoic philosophy. This recipe has worked in his previous books, and again it makes for convincing reading.
Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is the Way, has just published his treatise on ego, sure to be another cult classic. Review Holiday uses examples of historical figures–both successful and unsuccessful–to examine the destructive properties of ego. Through these stories we gain a better understanding of how dangerous ego can be, and how its’ suppression leads to a better life.