Comments on: Working Towards Your Telos http://www.ryanholiday.net/working-towards-your-telos/ Meditations on strategy and life Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Drew http://www.ryanholiday.net/working-towards-your-telos/#comment-9612 Drew Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:42:49 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/working-towards-your-telos/#comment-9612 Man, it's funny. I read your blog, and I often see you peppering your posts with these philosophical references (like Telos) which I would be completely ignorant of had I not gotten a traditional liberal arts education. I don't always agree with your views, or your polemical rhetorical style, but I commend you for learning and studying on your own. I certainly wouldn't have read Aristotle if I hadn't had to write a paper on him. Anyway, nice work. Asskissing over. Man, it’s funny. I read your blog, and I often see you peppering your posts with these philosophical references (like Telos) which I would be completely ignorant of had I not gotten a traditional liberal arts education. I don’t always agree with your views, or your polemical rhetorical style, but I commend you for learning and studying on your own. I certainly wouldn’t have read Aristotle if I hadn’t had to write a paper on him.

Anyway, nice work.

Asskissing over.

]]> By: Alex http://www.ryanholiday.net/working-towards-your-telos/#comment-9611 Alex Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:43:05 +0000 http://dev.ryanholiday.net/working-towards-your-telos/#comment-9611 If you're in the pursuit of something solely to be the best, I would say that you're doing it for all of the wrong reasons. The point isn't to be the best - the point is to find what you're here to do, what you have the potential to be the best at out of everything you do, and do it. Often, this will make you the best. I may be wrong in this, but the best wouldn't be the best if they didn't keep going, keep pushing themselves higher and further our of sheer love and willpower. Look at Ray Bradbury for example - arguably one of the best science fictions writers of all time, and arguably the best at his own brand of short stories. He's written hundreds upon hundreds. Yet he doesn't do it to be the best - he does it because he loves it. The best wouldn't be the best if they didn't hit their pursuit every day with renewed fervor. Keep going in what you love, and who knows, maybe someday you'll go where no one has ever been. If you’re in the pursuit of something solely to be the best, I would say that you’re doing it for all of the wrong reasons. The point isn’t to be the best – the point is to find what you’re here to do, what you have the potential to be the best at out of everything you do, and do it. Often, this will make you the best.

I may be wrong in this, but the best wouldn’t be the best if they didn’t keep going, keep pushing themselves higher and further our of sheer love and willpower.

Look at Ray Bradbury for example – arguably one of the best science fictions writers of all time, and arguably the best at his own brand of short stories. He’s written hundreds upon hundreds. Yet he doesn’t do it to be the best – he does it because he loves it.

The best wouldn’t be the best if they didn’t hit their pursuit every day with renewed fervor. Keep going in what you love, and who knows, maybe someday you’ll go where no one has ever been.

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