Comments on: The Difficult Questions http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eric Ogunbase http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10371 Eric Ogunbase Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:34:29 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10371 Ryan, Once again, you hit it right on the head. No one questions their own activities, because people have been fed this "do what feels good" bullshit from infancy. No one is willing to put in the hard work it takes to keep a family from self destructing. Or make the tough choice to forgo the career for the benefit of a commitment you swore to have until you died. Penelope Trunk makes me sick, because she's thought of as this career expert and advocate for work/life balance. What is she? A fucking failure. She's leading women down this path of thinking it's okay to sacrifice your marriage and children for career fulfillment. If our current generation wasn't fucked up enough. As if it weren't bad enough, the divorce isn't even final, and she's dating again. Fucking gross. My stepfather said something to me years ago that still resonates to this day. "Son, just because you can, doesn't mean you should". Ryan,

Once again, you hit it right on the head. No one questions their own activities, because people have been fed this “do what feels good” bullshit from infancy. No one is willing to put in the hard work it takes to keep a family from self destructing. Or make the tough choice to forgo the career for the benefit of a commitment you swore to have until you died.

Penelope Trunk makes me sick, because she’s thought of as this career expert and advocate for work/life balance.

What is she? A fucking failure. She’s leading women down this path of thinking it’s okay to sacrifice your marriage and children for career fulfillment. If our current generation wasn’t fucked up enough. As if it weren’t bad enough, the divorce isn’t even final, and she’s dating again. Fucking gross.

My stepfather said something to me years ago that still resonates to this day. “Son, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”.

]]> By: Andrew Bleeda http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10370 Andrew Bleeda Sun, 03 Aug 2008 10:57:52 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10370 Holy shit, I laughed at the RMMB thread for Penelope Trunk's twitter account, but this post is absurd. Holy shit, I laughed at the RMMB thread for Penelope Trunk’s twitter account, but this post is absurd.

]]> By: Avinash http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10369 Avinash Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:26:24 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10369 Heh, Favre's been like this ever since he won his first Super Bowl and he became a demigod to sports media because he shows "passion" in everything he does. Because most athletes aren't terribly savvy outside their arenas, the media and PR campaigns become vital to expressing who they are to the common fan. Athletes and celebrities have generally been viewed by the media fairly objectively; even Jordan got pretty even treatment from mediatypes during his heyday. But Favre generally gets a pass from media because he strikes a chord with his "gun slinging mentality" and "big play ability" and "love for the game", something that media people fawn over. His reprehensible behavior during this whole saga seems to be a byproduct of this. He's been allowed to do as he pleases for a whole decade without anyone holding him to the fire. Heh, Favre’s been like this ever since he won his first Super Bowl and he became a demigod to sports media because he shows “passion” in everything he does. Because most athletes aren’t terribly savvy outside their arenas, the media and PR campaigns become vital to expressing who they are to the common fan. Athletes and celebrities have generally been viewed by the media fairly objectively; even Jordan got pretty even treatment from mediatypes during his heyday.

But Favre generally gets a pass from media because he strikes a chord with his “gun slinging mentality” and “big play ability” and “love for the game”, something that media people fawn over. His reprehensible behavior during this whole saga seems to be a byproduct of this. He’s been allowed to do as he pleases for a whole decade without anyone holding him to the fire.

]]> By: Andrew McMillen http://www.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10368 Andrew McMillen Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:21:28 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/the-difficult-questions/#comment-10368 Thanks for this post, Ryan. The thing about Pinsky's comment - "live with integrity and a clear sense of right and wrong" - is that these things can't be taught, only lived. Experienced. It takes time to discover right, wrong, and integrity. Some, like a couple that you mentioned, never discover. Thanks for this post, Ryan. The thing about Pinsky’s comment – “live with integrity and a clear sense of right and wrong” – is that these things can’t be taught, only lived. Experienced. It takes time to discover right, wrong, and integrity. Some, like a couple that you mentioned, never discover.

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