My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
“My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.”
— Ryan Holiday · Author
The World Motivation
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
“My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.”
— Ryan Holiday · Author
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one.
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.
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.
My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.
Well, unfortunately, my father passed away before my first book was published, so he never lived to see me as an author. But I think my mum was suitably pleased because she was mad about words. If she ever came across a word that she didn't know, she would always look it up in the dictionary.
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.
I'm the author of several books, including children's books.