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		<title>Metaphors &amp; Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Boorstin wrote that throughout history, philosophers have looked for new handles by which they could grasp the world around them. Technology and advancement became the source of new metaphors, new analogies, new explanations for who they were and why. The clock, for instance, became a vehicle through which they could explain a world that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Projecting Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I&#8217;ve noticed that happens on feminist blogs is that they have a peculiar way of phrasing their questions. A common one I&#8217;ve seen (or been asked) is that they&#8217;ll ask &#8220;how is this empowering?&#8221; or &#8220;is this subversive?&#8221; Of course, this is to demand adherence to a standard which no one ever agreed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/projecting-rules/</link>
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		<title>Empathy &amp; Perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the critical functions of empathy is the ability to understand foreign situations—the things outside your self. This paves the way for pragmatism. As opposed to most &#8220;strategy&#8221; which is idealism or retroactive wishful thinking. -Yahoo doomed themselves when they became a media company. Ok, now what? -The record industry responded poorly to technology, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/empathy-perspective/</link>
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		<title>Schemes &amp; Scams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During recessions there is almost always a rise in the reports of scams. People get sucked into get-rich-quick schemes and fall for outright cons. Sometimes it&#8217;s greed or laziness, and sometimes it&#8217;s more complicated. But it&#8217;s generally motivated by a sense of just not.knowing.what.to.do It&#8217;s really easy to assume this only happens to dumb people. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/schemes-and-scam/</link>
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		<title>Rude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Try not to get upset by people&#8217;s rudeness. Notice: how it never seems to come from someone who has &#8216;earned&#8217; the right to be rude. In other words, this attitude (or stupidity) has not served them well. It has held them back and punished them. So you pity it, place it properly in context with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/rude/</link>
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		<title>Not Noticing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think about all the near-misses that you never knew about. Fight-or-flight situations that passed unintentionally unnoticed. To not know and continue to never know without consequence is a wonderful gift. Especially if you&#8217;re someone like me who internalizes theses crises. I feel them churning in my stomach. My heart races or I get sick with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/not-noticing/</link>
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		<title>Who?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who is wise? He that learns from everyone Who is powerful? He that governs his passions Who is rich? He that is content Who is that? Nobody&#8221; - Poor Richard&#8217;s Almanac, 1755]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/who/</link>
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		<title>Sprezzatura</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I run, I&#8217;ve always had this habit of breaking down whatever distance I set out to accomplish in increasingly diminutive yet illogical units to keep my mind busy. 4 miles becomes just 2 miles when it&#8217;s halfway done and 2 miles is easy because you&#8217;re hardly even warmed up at .5 which is already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/sprezzatura/</link>
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		<title>The Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about the internet is watching how people interpret things. Particularly in blog or Twitter posts where someone is forced to condense what they took away from an article down to just a sentence or two. What you notice is that people are incredibly bad at getting the point. Or worse, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-point/</link>
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		<title>The Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you first begin as a strategist, you hold the faulty assumption that foresight means predicting what happens next. Of course, though it sometimes does, more often than not, the proper plan is proven wrong before it is proven proper. There are plenty of opportunities to undermine yourself along the way. To have doubts. To [...]]]></description>
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