Comments on: That is the question: http://www.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ryan Holiday http://www.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8123 Ryan Holiday Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:36:18 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8123 No these are great comments. I'll do a new post elaborating on it, but I have to wait. I need to keep that Virginia post at the top--I did 3x my normal traffic yesterday from Google searches for Ryan Clark. The last thing these people need to to hear my thoughts on life after finding out their friend is dead. No these are great comments. I’ll do a new post elaborating on it, but I have to wait. I need to keep that Virginia post at the top–I did 3x my normal traffic yesterday from Google searches for Ryan Clark.

The last thing these people need to to hear my thoughts on life after finding out their friend is dead.

]]> By: alex http://www.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8122 alex Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:03:02 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8122 Reminds me of something I once heard. Bruce lee talked about learning of martial arts. Lots of people admired him until one day a grand master of a different martial art asked him to teach him Bruce's way. Bruce replied with two cups full of water. He poured out the first cup, and filled it with the second. "In order to accept what I offer you must first empty your cup" I always understood this as always keeping an semi-open cup to accept new ideas and possibilities. Old outdated things could be easily poured out allowing new and probably more correct to enter. A lot of the arguments and ideas you are going through I am going through. I do not know if I am right or wrong, but I always try to continue to fill my cup Reminds me of something I once heard. Bruce lee talked about learning of martial arts. Lots of people admired him until one day a grand master of a different martial art asked him to teach him Bruce’s way. Bruce replied with two cups full of water. He poured out the first cup, and filled it with the second. “In order to accept what I offer you must first empty your cup”

I always understood this as always keeping an semi-open cup to accept new ideas and possibilities. Old outdated things could be easily poured out allowing new and probably more correct to enter.

A lot of the arguments and ideas you are going through I am going through. I do not know if I am right or wrong, but I always try to continue to fill my cup

]]> By: Dano http://www.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8121 Dano Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:19:15 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8121 I think this is a really interesting post and I'd love it if you'd elaborate. Why exactly do you feel like you need to change who you are? I mean, you're saying "I become the real me", but then it seems like you resent that and try to go in the opposite direction of what you're instincts tell you to do. I guess I can understand how that would be a useful strategy in your particular position at Rudius, but is that how you generally live your life, too? I think this is a really interesting post and I’d love it if you’d elaborate.

Why exactly do you feel like you need to change who you are? I mean, you’re saying “I become the real me”, but then it seems like you resent that and try to go in the opposite direction of what you’re instincts tell you to do. I guess I can understand how that would be a useful strategy in your particular position at Rudius, but is that how you generally live your life, too?

]]> By: ryan http://www.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8120 ryan Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:24:15 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/that-is-the-question/#comment-8120 This is the most insightful thing Ive read in a long time. I think it also helps to explain why the cliche that "perception is reality" holds true. This is the most insightful thing Ive read in a long time. I think it also helps to explain why the cliche that “perception is reality” holds true.

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