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		<title>To Really Know Something</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most aggravating parts of the media and marketing world I work in is the gurus and experts (charlatans is probably a better word). To them, everything is a theory or a chance to pontificate. Everything can be simplified and extrapolated. None of the natural laws—diminishing returns, unintended consequences, regression to the mean—ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Book Recommendations of 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recommended more than 150 books through my Reading List Email in 2011. I know you&#8217;re all very busy people and I imagine only a few of you ended up reading more than a handful of them. Don&#8217;t worry, that&#8217;s on me and not on you. Thankfully, Charlie Hoehn gave me the helpful suggestion of doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Injury</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone hurt you. Or so it feels. Why? They didn&#8217;t mean to. What they said/did had nothing to do with you. Yet it hurts all the same. Welcome to narcissistic injury. To paraphrase Epicurus, we—the narcissistically inclined—live in an unwalled city. Everything is a threat to the fragile self. Illusions, accomplishments, these are not defenses. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/self-injury/</link>
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		<title>Arguing With Reality (Bearing the Unbearable)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Could it be that we fill out our lives, experience all that we experience, and then simply leave this world and are forgotten? I can&#8217;t bear thinking that existence is so insubstantial, a stone thrown in a pond that leaves no ripple.&#8221; Susan Orlean, Rin Tin Tin Just because you can&#8217;t bear it, doesn&#8217;t mean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Total Commitment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People say things are important to them. Success, recognition, money, freedom, power, some purpose or passion. Yet what do they do with themselves? They make their choices as if time is infinite and as if it will all be handed to them. As a young man, Bill Bradley used to tell himself that when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go and Stand on Hallowed Ground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it is a contradiction that someone like me who so firmly guards against the narrative fallacy would be such a deep believer in hallowed ground. But I am. See, those who ascribe to this school of thought simply believe that there is something to be gained from going to old places, places where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running to train for a marathon is like being a good person so you can get into heaven. The means is right but the end is all wrong. You glorify a bogus God. For this plug in any sort of exercise, spiritual or physical. And for marathon, you can plug any of the pointless competitions, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/missing-the-point/</link>
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		<title>Be a good person; Do what you love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I no longer remember who said it to me, but I can still hear the words. &#8220;Do what you love. Be a good person. Those are your only two jobs in life.&#8221; In practice: First, to be fair and honorable. To make mistakes and know it—and forgive them. Don&#8217;t slow down traffic or recline your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Having &#8216;Your Things&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the philosophical life is simplicity. Variety, despite the saying, is an overrated spice. (There&#8217;s a reason that most successful diets reduce the different types of foods you eat to set of standard meals). Look at your closets and your drawers. Chances are they are marked with little consistency, and too much variety. And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-importance-of-having-your-things/</link>
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		<title>An Interview with Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew McMillen posted an email interview he did with me. You can read it here. At 24, Ryan [pictured right] is a year older than me. I’ve viewed his blog as a kind of counsel since I first became aware of his work. His thinking and writing has, in turn, shaped my thinking and writing. [...]]]></description>
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