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COURAGE IS CALLING: FORTUNE FAVOURS THE BRAVE Hardcover – 20 October 2021
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- Publication date20 October 2021
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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.
Follow Ryan on Twitter @ryanholiday and visit his website www.ryanholiday.net
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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
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #323 in Analysis & Strategy
- #462 in Self-Help
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About the author

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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By ANIRUDDH SHASTRI on 23 April 2022


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.

By sapna on 2 November 2021
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.
.
.
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.

What do we miss out when cowardice takes over us?
Ryan Holiday, in his latest book, 'Courage is Calling', talks about why it is important to have courage and more important to overcome fears in life, with stoicism as the foundation of the work. He says that a person is highly afraid of the consequences that one does not dare to look beyond.
Courage is not just about bravery but it is also the willingness to stand up about what you believe in and doing the right thing.
Like his previously released books, this book too is divided into three sections, namely: Fear, Courage and The Heroic.
Backed up with real-life examples, the book tries to draw attention towards how fear has restrained many life-changing opportunities. Sometimes what we fear the most, is the one that needs to be done.
Having read Ryan's books in the past, I didn't find this book to be very different. It has the same structure, tone and approach as is in his Ego is the Enemy and Obstacle is the Way. The message in the book seems repetitive.
Someone who wants to pick up an introductory book on stoicism, especially on the very topic of courage, can pick up this book. For those who want to read books that form the base of books like these, books by Aurelius, Seneca, etc. might be a better choice.

By Udisha on 7 November 2021


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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
Executive Coach

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.

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.

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.

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.