Ryan Holiday

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Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American author, marketer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the creative consultancy firm Brass Check.

He is a media strategist, the former director of advertising for American Apparel, and a New York Times columnist and editor-at-large.

Personal life

Holiday wrote public letters urging his father not to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Despite his public opposition to Trump's 2016 White House campaign, Holiday was given a communications director position within the Trump administration, which he declined. In the 2020 US presidential election, Holiday voted for Joe Biden. "We hung it up on our ranch in Texas, where we own guns, raise cows for meat, raise cattle for meat, prefer low taxes, fly an American flag, and generally want to be left alone," he said. It's perfectly normal to have "conservative" beliefs and know what the right thing to do in 2020 is." Holiday initiated a funding drive in September 2020 and personally invested $10,000 toward the deposition and relocation of two Confederate monuments from the Bastrop County Courthouse and the courthouse approved the removal and relocation of the monuments to a new location in February 2021.

The independent bookstore Painted Porch Bookshop in Bastrop, Texas, is owned and operated by Holiday. He is married and has two sons. Bastrop County, Texas, he lives on a 40-acre ranch.

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Career

After dropping out of college at the age of 19, Holiday started his professional career. He studied political science and creative writing at University of California, Riverside, California. He advised author Tucker Max and later collaborated with Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, on Greene's 2009 New York Times best-selling book, The 50th Law. Holiday spent time as both the Director of Marketing for American Apparel and later as an advisor to the company. In October 2014, he left the company. He has worked on a number of media campaigns and has written extensively on the subject of media manipulation.

Holiday has written for Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Medium.com, The New York Times, and Texas Monthly. He has written more than three million books.

In July 2012, Holiday published Trust Me, I'm Lying, his first book, a media investigation into the state of online journalism, which debuted on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Portfolio/Penguin first published his second book Growth Hacker Marketing in September 2013 and then expanded to a print version in 2014. The book explains how traditional marketing efforts are no longer the most cost-effective, and that growth hacking is both cheaper and more popular in today's economy. Inc. Magazine's top ten marketing books of 2014.

Holiday was named editor-at-large of the New York Observer's Business & Technology section in February 2014.

The Obstacle Is The Way That Was Holiday's Third Book Debutes May 1, 2014, Portfolio/Penguin's third book The Obstacle Is The Way was published on May 1, 2014. The book is based on the Stoic tradition of framing problems as opportunities. The book has been sold more than 1 million copies and was read by the New England Patriots during their 2014 Super Bowl-winning season, as well as distributed in the Seattle Seahawks' locker room in the following offseason. In 2019, the Obstacle Is the Way emerged as the most popular Wall Street Journal bestseller list, five years after its introduction. When his head coach Erik Spoelstra gave Miami Heat players copies of the book, two-time NBA champion Chris Bosh named The Obstacle Is the Way as his favorite book, he explained it twice. During a press conference at the Masters in 2019, Rory McIlroy said he read The Obstacle Is the Way as well as Holiday's upcoming book, Ego Is the Enemy, leading up to the tournament. Shazier credited The Obstacle Is The Way with assisting him in the months after former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Ryan Shazier's on-field spinal injury that left him unable to walk.

In 2016, he wrote two books. Ego Is the Enemy, the first book, uses several historical figures as case studies to illustrate the pitfalls of egotism. The Daily Stoic, the second book in the series, is a daily devotional to Stoic meditations. Both books went on to become bestsellers, with Daily Stoic debuting at number one on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list.

He published Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and Intrigue's Anatomy. It's about the fight between Gawker Media and wrestler Hulk Hogan, as well as Peter Thiel's involvement in the controversy. William D. Cohan of The New York Times, who called the book "one helluva page turner," praised it. Conspiracy is being turned into a film directed by Charles Randolph. He published Stillness Is the Key, the first of Holiday's books to debut on the New York Times bestseller list in October 2019. Nevertheless, Stillness Is the Key advocates for a balanced lifestyle, with limiting the amount of "noise" and mainly referring to skepticism, Confucianism, Taoism, and the Abrahamic faiths. Lives of the Stoics, which he coauthored with author Stephen Hanselman, will be published in 2020. The book is a collection of biographies of more than two dozen philosophers who lived according to the stoic virtues of courage, temperance, and wisdom.

In Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans, he has a chapter giving tips.

Dr. Drew recommended Epictetus, which inspired Holiday's stoicism when holiday was a college freshman. Holiday, writer, essays, and lectures have been lauded by The New York Times for the increasing skepticism's increasing fame. He has also been described as "leading the charge for stoicism," a trend that has piqued interest among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. "Holiday is also a great teller of stories," Classicist Gregory Hays, who authored Marcus Aureli's Meditations in 2002, wrote about Holiday's stoic writing.

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