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Ryan Holiday
American
Author
Born:
Jun 16
,
1987
Job
People
Time
Work
You
Your
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As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online - what spreads - is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity.
Ryan Holiday
Value
Worst
Worst Kind
Din
Kind
Finds
Above
Online
Through
Importance
Spreads
Opposite
Discovered
Itself
Accuracy
Information
Us
Media
Raised
The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.
Ryan Holiday
People
Marketers
Trick
Properly
Attempts
Protects
Ceaseless
Against
Public
Media
Things
Buying
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games.
Ryan Holiday
Saying
Unless
Has-Been
Cash
Something
Civilization
Over
Since
Forbidden
Piles
Been
Hand
Western
Western Civilization
Brands
Greeks
Owned
Essentially
Commonly
Themselves
Games
Olympics
Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.
Ryan Holiday
Creative
Discipline
Spending
Marketing
Bent
Rather
Results
Towards
Industry
Norm
Than
Sustainability
Unfortunately
The problem with a lot of marketing advice is that the examples they use are not exactly typical. It's hard for businesses, particularly smaller businesses, to relate to the bold innovations of companies like Apple or Tesla.
Ryan Holiday
Problem
Advice
Relate
Innovations
Typical
Marketing
Exactly
Examples
Smaller
Like
Particularly
Tesla
Lot
The Problem With
Use
Hard
Businesses
Companies
Bold
Apple
People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.
Ryan Holiday
Love
People
World
Sense
Make
Love Stories
Stories
Use
Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life.
Ryan Holiday
Life
My Life
Changed
Drew
Dr
My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.
Ryan Holiday
You
Yourself
People
Will
Advice
Young
Would
Would-Be
Find
New
York
Move
New York
Where
Young People
Don't move to New York. Find your own city and your way.
Ryan Holiday
Own
Way
City
Find
New
York
Move
New York
Your
Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.
Ryan Holiday
Women
Men
Men And Women
Action
Philosophy
Idle
Domains
Stoicism
Successful
Professors
In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company.
Ryan Holiday
Work
Management
Job
Collective
College
Project
Beverly
Beverly Hills
Talent
Hills
Because
Blog
Been
Max
Tucker
Agency
Worked
Producing
Intern
Company
Started
Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them.
Ryan Holiday
Job
About
Ideas
Learned
Them
Your
Thing
Here
Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.
Ryan Holiday
Life
Regret
My Life
Single
Out
Course
How
Turned
Second
The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.
Ryan Holiday
You
Selfish
Yourself
Job
Insanity
Easier
Some
Superficial
Take
Hazard
Self-Absorbed
Primary
Occupational
Doer
Blogging
Traits
Requires
Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard.
Ryan Holiday
Guard
Secrecy
Secrets
Some
Fact
Hacking
Developed
Proprietary
Course
Trade
Very
In Fact
Process
Conversations
Public
Grown
Technical
Growth
In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return.
Ryan Holiday
Time
School
College
Finished
Year
Summer
Out
Would
Had
Dropped
Know
Return
End
Up
June
Forever
Done
Everyone faces adversity.
Ryan Holiday
Adversity
Everyone
Faces
Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity.
Ryan Holiday
Time
Good
Crazy
You
Feel Good
Problem
Better
Enough
Criticized
Something
Obscurity
Feel
Most
Alternative
Always
Least
Doing
Than
Being
Interesting
Might
Means
Noticed
Cool
Media
If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?
Ryan Holiday
You
Rules
Only
Restrictions
Stuck
Should
Farce
Media
Why
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.
Ryan Holiday
Behavior
Fact
Feel
Cover
In Fact
Disingenuous
Standards
Many
Agree
Wholeheartedly
Media
The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.
Ryan Holiday
News
Memory
Our
Worse
Inaccurate
Even
Even Worse
Everyone needs to start doing interviews over email. Whether you're a journalist or a spokesperson speaking to the media, you're better off communicating questions, statements, or inquiries via email.
Ryan Holiday
Needs
You
Better
Journalist
Everyone
Interviews
Email
Statements
Better Off
Spokesperson
Over
Doing
Off
Questions
Via
Whether
Communicating
Speaking
Media
Start
What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest.
Ryan Holiday
Game
People
Involved
Parties
Contest
Forget
Often
Vicious
Media
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up front.
Ryan Holiday
Disclose
Own
Cynical
Marketing
Responsible
Someone
My Own
Share
Fair
Fair Share
Stunts
Am
Up
Front
Suspicious
Right
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.
Ryan Holiday
Success
Failure
Ego
Some
Tales
Most
Well
Greatest
Stories
Certainly
Many
No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own.
Ryan Holiday
You
Matter
Job
First
Own
Others
Find
Seem
Something
Make
How
Dull
Duties
Want
Commonplace
Your
Chances
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