Comments on: A Wolf Like Me http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/ Meditations on strategy and life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9403 Ryan Holiday Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:18:45 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9403 Unsure of your question, explain. Unsure of your question, explain.

]]> By: PCD http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9402 PCD Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:36:03 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9402 While reading this I thought of a line Tucker used once ("life is not a result, it is a process") and wondered: Is it that taking the hard/scary path makes you happy, or that you disagree and feel that the result of your efforts will make the process worthwhile? While reading this I thought of a line Tucker used once (“life is not a result, it is a process”) and wondered:

Is it that taking the hard/scary path makes you happy, or that you disagree and feel that the result of your efforts will make the process worthwhile?

]]> By: Drew http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9401 Drew Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:12:49 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9401 Ryan, your writing is a breath of fresh air. I'm reading this and nodding my head...your thoughts reaffirm everything I'm learning right now about having the strength to pursue my own path, to stand up and be a man instead of blindly following the herd off the cliff. Here's one of my favorite quotes that your post reminded me of: ""Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form." -Albert Einstein Keep plowing forward bro, and thanks for the inspiration. Ryan, your writing is a breath of fresh air. I’m reading this and nodding my head…your thoughts reaffirm everything I’m learning right now about having the strength to pursue my own path, to stand up and be a man instead of blindly following the herd off the cliff. Here’s one of my favorite quotes that your post reminded me of: “”Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.”

-Albert Einstein

Keep plowing forward bro, and thanks for the inspiration.

]]> By: Tucker Max http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9400 Tucker Max Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:02:33 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9400 You are being slightly overdramatic, even though your core point is correct. It's not that the old players are incompetent. Far from it. They are very good at manipulating the old system and extracting value from it and keeping upstarts out. But for almost all of them, the cement has hardened. They won't be able to adapt to a value-creation economic world with zero transaction costs. In plain language, when they have to compete solely on the merits, THEN they are in trouble. And that is the world that is coming. You are being slightly overdramatic, even though your core point is correct. It’s not that the old players are incompetent. Far from it. They are very good at manipulating the old system and extracting value from it and keeping upstarts out.

But for almost all of them, the cement has hardened. They won’t be able to adapt to a value-creation economic world with zero transaction costs. In plain language, when they have to compete solely on the merits, THEN they are in trouble. And that is the world that is coming.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9399 Anonymous Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:01:29 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/a-wolf-like-me/#comment-9399 You are being slightly overdramatic, even though your core point is correct. It's not that the old players are incompetent. Far from it. They are very good at manipulating the old system and extracting value from it and keeping upstarts out. But for almost all of them, the cement has hardened. They won't be able to adapt to a value-creation economic world with zero transaction costs. In plain language, when they have to compete solely on the merits, THEN they are in trouble. And that is the world that is coming. You are being slightly overdramatic, even though your core point is correct. It’s not that the old players are incompetent. Far from it. They are very good at manipulating the old system and extracting value from it and keeping upstarts out.

But for almost all of them, the cement has hardened. They won’t be able to adapt to a value-creation economic world with zero transaction costs. In plain language, when they have to compete solely on the merits, THEN they are in trouble. And that is the world that is coming.

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