Comments on: You, Piece of Work http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/ Meditations on strategy and life Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:25:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Derek Rushforth http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10589 Derek Rushforth Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:09:09 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10589 Ryan, In lighthearted jest, you know you post too much when it has taken me a week to read your blog posts back to May. New to Rudius Media, I have already read through TM's stories, but yours take forever to read and digest. Your reading lists are particularly helpful for general knowledge and my minor in public relations and rhetorical advocacy, aka simply PR/advertising. Ryan,

In lighthearted jest, you know you post too much when it has taken me a week to read your blog posts back to May. New to Rudius Media, I have already read through TM’s stories, but yours take forever to read and digest. Your reading lists are particularly helpful for general knowledge and my minor in public relations and rhetorical advocacy, aka simply PR/advertising.

]]> By: Ted http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10588 Ted Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:25:07 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10588 If you're interested in the psychodynamics of talk-therapy (ie, the little mental strategies you prepare before your session, how part of you always tries to show how you're smarter and better at diagnosing yourself than your therapist, etc etc) you really, really should read David Foster Wallace's last published book of stories (before he hung himself Sept. 12). All the stories are great-some of the most challenging but rewarding fiction out there. The one you should really read is "Good Old Neon." It's about a suicidal genius (which was exactly waht Wallace was) who thinks about everything constantly and has the most delightfully inspired therapy sessions again and again. Incredibly insightful, brilliantly written, it's really powerful and will change you. If you’re interested in the psychodynamics of talk-therapy (ie, the little mental strategies you prepare before your session, how part of you always tries to show how you’re smarter and better at diagnosing yourself than your therapist, etc etc) you really, really should read David Foster Wallace’s last published book of stories (before he hung himself Sept. 12). All the stories are great-some of the most challenging but rewarding fiction out there. The one you should really read is “Good Old Neon.” It’s about a suicidal genius (which was exactly waht Wallace was) who thinks about everything constantly and has the most delightfully inspired therapy sessions again and again. Incredibly insightful, brilliantly written, it’s really powerful and will change you.

]]> By: Tree Frog http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10587 Tree Frog Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:00:34 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10587 Total non-sequitur: I've been on the Seth Godin Tribes thing since its start. Thus far, I'd choose to describe my view of the place as "well-meaning, but retarded". Total non-sequitur: I’ve been on the Seth Godin Tribes thing since its start. Thus far, I’d choose to describe my view of the place as “well-meaning, but retarded”.

]]> By: Steve http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10586 Steve Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:02:58 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10586 Two comments in two days, this is a record for me. I was also having an issue with anger and I tripped into a solution. I successfully used Bill Ferguson's Mastery of Life workbook and mp3s. Bill's thought is that anger means the person is resisting some truth about their life. The workbook and recordings help the user focus in on the core issue. That was last October, and I have not flown off the handle a single time since then. In every circumstance where I even started to feel anger I have been able to link it back to my core resistance. It was almost like magic how my life started changing. The only part that I am not satisfied with is that I still feel the core issue. I guess that makes me consciously competent, but I want to make that last step into unconscious competence. I plan to attend a live workshop in November and see if I can break through completely. Two comments in two days, this is a record for me.

I was also having an issue with anger and I tripped into a solution. I successfully used Bill Ferguson’s Mastery of Life workbook and mp3s. Bill’s thought is that anger means the person is resisting some truth about their life. The workbook and recordings help the user focus in on the core issue.

That was last October, and I have not flown off the handle a single time since then. In every circumstance where I even started to feel anger I have been able to link it back to my core resistance. It was almost like magic how my life started changing.

The only part that I am not satisfied with is that I still feel the core issue. I guess that makes me consciously competent, but I want to make that last step into unconscious competence. I plan to attend a live workshop in November and see if I can break through completely.

]]> By: John http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10585 John Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:03:31 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10585 Perhaps the hardest part of life is the struggle of finding out who we are, and what we can become. Perhaps the hardest part of life is the struggle of finding out who we are, and what we can become.

]]> By: Ilan Bouchard http://www.ryanholiday.net/post_26/#comment-10584 Ilan Bouchard Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:01:08 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/you-piece-of-work/#comment-10584 Dude, I was writing exactly about this last night. You took it much further than I did. It's been a while since one of your posts really struck home for me; it's really great when they do. Dude, I was writing exactly about this last night. You took it much further than I did.

It’s been a while since one of your posts really struck home for me; it’s really great when they do.

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