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'An urgent call to arms for each and all of us.' Matthew McConaugheyAn inspiring anthem to the power, promise, and challenges of courage, the first in a series examining the timeless Stoic virtues from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ryan HolidayFortune favours the bold. All great leaders of history have known this, and were successful because of the risks they dared to take. But today so many of us are paralysed by fear. Drawing on ancient Stoic wisdom and examples across history and around the world, Ryan Holiday shows why courage is so important, and how to cultivate it in our own lives. Courage is not simply physical bravery but also doing the right thing and standing up for what you believe; it's creativity, generosity and perseverance. And it is the only way to live an extraordinary, fulfilled and effective life. Everything in life begins with courage. This book will equip you with the bravery to begin.

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Ryan Holiday is one of the world's foremost writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. His books like The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key have sold millions of copies and been translated into over 30 languages. He lives outside Austin, Texas, with his wife and two boys... and cows and donkeys and goats.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Profile Books; Main edition (20 October 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1788166272
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1788166270
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 370 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.4 x 3 x 17.8 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom

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Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His books like The Obstacle Is the Way,Ego Is the Enemy,The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies. Together, they've spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys...and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main St in Bastrop, Texas.

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Aritra Neogi

Another Masterpiece by Ryan Holiday

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 September 2022

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Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 4 August 2022

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You enjoy a book more when it is beautiful from outside as well as the words are beautifully written. So the one i got was in nice condition still Amazon should work on packaging. But the problem was i bought lot of books and got not even single bookmark.

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Paul

Good book but not the best

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 11 May 2022

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This is a good book to read. But it's not so inspiring as the obstacle is the way

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 July 2022

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Worth reading.

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ANIRUDDH SHASTRI

SCAM they sent a paperback instead of a hardcover.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 April 2022

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Biswajit panda

Thanks Ryan for this amazing book.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 March 2022

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Superb book u find energy in every sentence.

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Udisha

Go read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 7 November 2021

Courage is Calling is a book of philosophy at its purest form. But wait! The best part about the book is that it is divided into multiple short chapters so the pace and writing style is well maintained because of it. The various short chapters always begin with a incident/example and sometimes story and then gives us the main moral of the story at the ending of each chapter. There are 2-3 lines at the end of each chapter that will make you feel as if your mind has taken a bath

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sapna

A must read to overcome any sort of fear one has.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 2 November 2021

The book talks about how fear shut opportunities and activities are held back.
It provides multiple examples where fear has obstructed many life-changing opportunities.

What i learnt from the book:

👉Can't lose if you don't choose?
But you lose the moment. you lose momentum. you lose your ability to look yourself in the

👉 We fear consequences. So we restraint ourselves from doing certain things.

👉Our fear points us, like a self-indicting arrow, in the direction of the right things to do. Because sometimes what we fear the most is the most important thing to be done and dusted.

👉 Fear can either alert you about danger or towards opportunity.
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Critic:
The book may sound clique and boring at certain points.
Some out of context example here and there put me off reading.

Who should read:
If you have any fear that you want to overcome, be it materialistic or psychological, this book is for you.

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VivaCB2

Respectable undertaking but slightly naive for my tastes

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 26 December 2021

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If you've read Robert Greene's books, Holiday's 'Courage is Calling' follows a similar style - concepts and philosophies of the human experience are laid out, using historical figures as examples and we're told how we can apply this knowledge to our modern lives.

I do like books like this. I find them fascinating. Your generic philosophy / well-being books can be quite vague and cliché. History books have their use. But the increasing wealth of literature attempting to splice the two, tickles my pickle.

And so Holiday should be congratulated on this undertaking. Using the principles of stoicism to motivate the modern reader into reaching their potential is a just and captivating pursuit.

The reason why I rated it three stars are as follows:

- Though there is an apparent close relationship between Greene and Holiday, Courage is Calling seems to contradict 'Greeneism' in many ways. My take from much of Greene's work is that the world is harsh and competitive and you need to use subtlety and poise to navigate through life. Issues are nuanced, people are complex, so understanding people and using restraint in our interactions is key.

Holiday in this book however [this is again my take] seems to champion a rather reckless and swashbuckling kamikaze approach. 'Just send that angry email', 'just quit your job', 'just move places'. It's all very emotional and drastic.

I tend to adhere to Greene's way of looking at this, and so Holiday's proclamations come across as a naive and overly bolshy without regard to repercussions.

How realistic is it to expect a working class 21 year old to just quit their job because they dislike their boss? In an age of intense competition for jobs, rising living costs, the ongoing pandemic. Of course Holiday would respond to this saying that courage is needed to make these big decisions, they can work out - but it just seems a bit too Hollywood happy ending, idealistic for my tastes. I tend to favour Greene's pragmatism. But that's just me.

I just disagree with this idea that you should make yourself a matyr to make some kind of vague wider point; and I can't help but feel this take is derived from Holiday's own angst regarding an experience he had at American Apparel.

- Holiday also lost me slightly when he throws in barbed comments about people he disagrees with on issues such as the COVID vaccine, Trump, voting left or right etc. I think these issues, whichever side you align with, are very charged and trigger emotional responses in us all. By declaring one side right and one side wrong, Holiday loses half the readership. It again seems to be naive from someone acting as an authority on human interaction.

I fundamentally believe that there are certain subjects you're best off tackling in a diplomatic way or perhaps avoiding altogether, so the fact that Holiday seems to either ignore this understanding of human psychology or not care, then sullies my trust in him to advise me on how to interact with society.

It is perhaps a feature from North America where this culture war is particularly toxic and is seeping into many other parts of the West now. This 'goodies v baddies', 2d cartoonish view of both sides of a political issue. It destroys nuance, and creates a very dim 'right v wrong' narrative.

Linked to this is Holiday's attempts in the book to suggest some courage is bad, while other courage is good, and the determining factor of 'good or bad' seems to be whether the agents involved are people he politically aligns with., or those who are opposed. WW2 Japan 'bad', Abraham Lincoln 'good'. In reality no side is wholly good or bad, every cause is nuanced. Good and bad dwell on both sides of every debate.

Holiday also mentions that you have a duty to act in advancing 'the truth' but again 'what is the truth?' everybody will have different perceptions, different opinions.

It may be that the above is just a consequence of the author and I having different world views; and Holiday isn't to blame for seeing things differently to myself.

I can only praise the undertaking, i just found I disagreed with Holiday on much. You should give it a read and make your own mind up. It is very readable, the chapters are short and choppy and the tone is informal so you can pick it up and read significant amounts at ease.

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Nuno Reis

Bias Stories To Make His Point

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 27 October 2021

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Ryan,

You should by now know that telling just part of a story to make your point is an intellectual misjudgment.

Although you write important aspects on the need to be more courageous, you give the impression that we just need to "stick to what we believe no matter what the consequences are" or "make a leap of faith" - which can result in terrible outcomes if we fail to understand what kind of people one is dealing with or being totally ill-prepared before making the leap.

No, Reed Hastings did not just make a "leap of faith".

Neither Jeff Bezos.

Yes, they made a series of risky decisions, but they were clever enough to test the waters and analyse the market before placing all their stakes in their ideas.

Do study their biographies and paint a more accurate picture than creating a fantasy reality - leave that to J. K. Rowling.

As a final advice, please read again "The 48 Laws to Power" by your mentor Robert Greene.

There is true wisdom in there that you are contradicting in your book.

To be frank, I'm puzzled how Robert allowed you to publish this book on courage... maybe you should ask the true intentions behind the G.O.A.T.?

The reason why I give one star is the trully disappointment in this book compared to others you wrote - and a hope that the next in this sequel is better than giving reckless and naive advices.

Nuno Reis
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Gary Chamberlain

Buy this for your teenagers!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 September 2021

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Love this latest book by Ryan Holiday.
I was lucky at eighteen to join a job that tested my mettle, but as life in general gets softer few youngsters learn to face down their fears. He’s done a good job here mixing old wisdom and modern advice.

EDIT: Yeah, enjoyed it and still dipping in, but I can’t help feeling he’s missed a trick. An appendix giving real life examples of progressively overcoming fears would’ve been a great extra to this book. (See ‘Fear, the friend of exceptional people’ by Geoff Thompson)
The book is good as it stands though, so remains five stars from me.

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Jonathan Baldie

Not for me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 8 October 2021

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A lot of people like the style of these books, with short chapters and questions intended to bring about self-reflection. But I don’t think that’s for me any more. I found it quite difficult to establish what ground had been covered, because the short chapters felt shallow to me, and the broken paragraphs were irritating and frustrating to read.

But that’s just me, I’m probably in a minority. People seem to like these books more than ever, and don’t seem to mind the author’s attempts at political messaging. If you’ve liked the author’s books in the past, you’re probably going to like this one too.

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Moosh

Well-written but not for me.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 25 October 2021

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I personally find his tone these days quite grating - it's very knowing and worthy, and completely lacking in humour.

It's also neither an academic work on the history of courage, nor a self-help book with references of everyday acts of courage, or any personal experiences from the author.

It's mainly just completely unnuanced stories from heroes of history, that you have to take with a large tub of salt.

I'm glad that he's bringing to the surface ancient values, however a book like: 'A Guide to the Good Life' by Irvine, resonated much more with me.

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