Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is an American bestselling author, media strategist, marketer and entrepreneur.
He has written extensively on the topic of marketing, culture, media manipulation, stoicism and human condition, and his work has been translated into thirty languages.
He’s the author of the books: Trust Me, I’m Lying (his first book, released in 2012), Growth Hacker Marketing, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Perennial Seller, and Conspiracy (2018) and Stillness is the Key (2019).
Holiday began his professional career after dropping out of college at 19. He worked for author Tucker Max and orchestrated a series of controversial media stunts for his movie launch.
Later, he worked with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, on Greene’s book The 50th Law.
He’s the former Director of Marketing for American Apparel and former adviser to founder Dov Charney.
Holiday founded Brass Check, a creative advisory firm that specializes in working with authors, artists, media companies and startups. Their partners have directly advised, promoted or produced content for a diverse group of clients ranging from Google to Tony Robbins, Complex, James Altucher, Tim Ferriss, as well as essentially every major publishing house, including Amazon.
Most people follow Ryan’s work through his mailing list, a newsletter that he started 10 years ago and more than 150,000 people are subscribed to it. He sends a monthly list of the best books he read and recommends. Readers include entrepreneurs, NFL coaches, Big Five book editors, authors, students, book store owners, executives, and everyone in between.
Besides the articles he’s been publishing on his own blog since 2007, he’s a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer, but has also written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, Entrepreneur, 99U, Boing Boing, and multiple other outlets.
Ryan Holiday’s trilogy of stoic books will be completed by “Stillness is the Key“, his new book, that was released on October 1st, 2019.
Ryan says that: “Stillness is one of the most powerful forces in the world–it’s the ability to be calm, to slow down as the world speeds up, to make complex decisions, to find your purpose, to get your life in order (even amidst chaos and pressure). Stillness is the key to what we want and what we need to be better people, better thinkers, better doers. To me stillness is Kennedy in the Cuban Missile Crisis, it’s Marcus Aurelius with his journals, it’s Tom Brady down 28-3 in the Super Bowl, it’s Martin Luther under interrogation: Here I stand, I can do no other.”
By the way, if you’re also based in Romania (as our team members), you can see Ryan live at GPeC Summit, the biggest e-commerce event in our country, where he’ll be invited as a speaker (November 4-5, 2019).