📍 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭.📍 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 ,𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨.📍 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬. 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭.

🅔🅧🅣🅡🅞🅥🅔🅡🅣  🅟🅔🅞🅟🅛🅔  🅕🅐🅒🅣🅢

📍 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬.📍 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬.

🅔🅧🅣🅡🅞🅥🅔🅡🅣  🅟🅔🅞🅟🅛🅔 🅕🅐🅒🅣🅢

📍 𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲.📍𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦.

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The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real transformation of the world order. The very nature of international relations and its rules are changing before our eyes. For India, this means optimal relationships with all the major powers to best advance its goals. It also requires a bolder and non-reciprocal approach to its neighbourhood. A global footprint is now in the making that leverages India's greater capability and relevance, as well as its unique diaspora. This era of global upheaval entails greater expectations from India, putting it on the path to becoming a leading power. In The India Way, S. Jaishankar, India's Minister of External Affairs, analyses these challenges and spells out possible policy responses. He places this thinking in the context of history and tradition, appropriate for a civilizational power that seeks to reclaim its place on the world stage.

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The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real transformation of the world order. The very nature of international relations and its rules are changing before our eyes. For India, this means optimal relationships with all the major powers to best advance its goals. It also requires a bolder and non-reciprocal approach to its neighbourhood. A global footprint is now in the making that leverages India's greater capability and relevance, as well as its unique diaspora. This era of global upheaval entails greater expectations from India, putting it on the path to becoming a leading power. In The India Way, S. Jaishankar, India's Minister of External Affairs, analyses these challenges and spells out possible policy responses. He places this thinking in the context of history and tradition, appropriate for a civilizational power that seeks to reclaim its place on the world stage.

S. Jaishankar

The India Way

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.

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The Vedanta Philosophy

“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller, who lived to nearly 100, wrote in her gorgeous poem <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2020/02/24/immortality-in-passing-lisel-mueller/">“Immortality” </a>a century and a half after a young artist pointed the world’s largest telescope at the cosmos to capture <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/09/10/john-adams-whipple-moon/">the first surviving photograph of the Moon </a>and the first-ever photograph of a star: Vega — an emissary of spacetime, reaching its rays across twenty-five lightyears to imprint the photographic plate with a image of the star as it had been twenty-five years earlier, immortalizing a moment already long gone.

Existence And Immortality

And yet in a cosmological sense, what exists is precious not because it will one day be lost but because it has overcome the staggering odds of never having existed at all: within the fraction of matter in the universe that is not dark matter, a fraction of atoms cohered into the elements necessary to form the complex structures necessary for life, of which a tiny portion cohered into the seething cauldron of complexity we call consciousness — the tiny, improbable fraction of a fraction of a fraction with which we have the perishable privilege of contemplating the universe in our physics.

Overcoming The Odds

In <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152474901X/?tag=braipick-20">Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings</a>, the poetic physicist Alan Lightman sieves four centuries of scientific breakthroughs, from Kepler’s revolutionary laws of planetary motion to the thousands of habitable exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission, to estimate that even with habitable planets orbiting one tenth of all stars, the faction of living matter in the universe is about one-billionth of one-billionth: If all the matter in the universe were the Gobi desert, life would be but a single grain of sand.

A Single Grain Of Sand

Building on his lifelong passion for harmonizing<a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/03/27/alan-lightman-searching-for-stars-on-an-island-in-maine/"> for absolutes in a relative world</a>, our <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/05/22/alan-lightman-accidental-universe-impermanence/">yearning for permanence in a universe of constant change </a>— Lightman writes: ”As we have struggled through the ages to fathom this strange and wondrous cosmos in which we find ourselves, few ideas have been richer than the concept of nothingness. For to understand anything, as Aristotle argued, we must understand what it is not. To understand matter, said the ancient Greeks, we must understand the “void,” or the absence of matter.”

The Concept Of Nothingness Or The Void

Because we are self-referential creatures — the consequence of being creatures with selves, itself the consequence of consciousness — no void troubles us more than that of our own mortality: the notion of our absence from the scene of life. It is difficult enough to grasp how somethingness could have arisen from nothingness — how the universe can exist at all. It savages the mind and its animating selfhood to consider that everything — including the subset constituting the particular something of us — could dissolve to nothingness.

From Nothingness To Somethingness And Back

Lightman closes his essay on the science of nothingness with a sentiment of touching, inescapable humanity:“What I feel and I know is that I am here now, at this moment in the grand sweep of time. I am not part of the void. I am not a fluctuation in the quantum vacuum. Even though I understand that someday my atoms will be scattered in soil and in air, that I will no longer exist, I am alive now. I am feeling this moment. I can see my hand on my writing desk. I can feel the warmth of the Sun through the window. And looking out, I can see a pine-needled path that goes down to the sea.”

I Am Here Now. I Am Not Part Of The Void. 

Another essay, titled “Immortality,” explores this irreconcilable dissonance between the creaturely and the cosmic — the dissonance from which we make our most symphonic art as we try to fathom our existence. Lying in his hammock one summer day, Lightman observes:

The Dissonance Between The Creaturely And The Cosmic ex

«A hundred years from now, I’ll be gone, but many of these spruce and cedars will still be here. The wind going through them will still sound like a distant waterfall. The paths that I wander may still be here, although probably covered with new vegetation. The rocks and ledges on the shore will be here, including a particular ledge I’m quite fond of. […] Sometimes, I sit on that ledge and wonder if it will remember me. […] But eventually, of course, even this land will shift and change and dissolve. Nothing persists in the material world. All of it changes and passes away.”

And yet, in an echo of one of the book’s subtlest yet profoundest undertones, Lightman challenges our binary view of life and death. With an eye to consciousness — “the seemingly strange experience” that furnishes “the most profound and troubling aspect of human existence” — he argues that death is not the life-switch in the off position but the gradual dimming of consciousness, of our experience of aliveness, through the deterioration of its physical infrastructure.

Death Is The Gradual Dimming Of Consciousness

Ever since Cecilia Payne <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/05/08/cecilia-payne-harvard-observatory-radio-talks/">discovered the chemical fingerprint of the universe</a>, we have known that the atoms we are made of — seven thousand trillion trillion atoms in each of us, on average — were forged in the furnace of faraway stars. We know, too, that every cell in our bodies — the tendons that stiffen our fists and the cortices that kindle our tenderness — is made of atoms. Lightman writes:

We Were Forged In The Furnace  Of Faraway Stars

“To an alien intelligence, each of us human beings would appear to be an assemblage of atoms, humming with our various electrical and chemical energies. To be sure, it is a special assemblage. A rock does not behave like a person… When we die, this special assemblage disassembles. The atoms remain, only scattered about.”

That special assemblage is what we call consciousness. A century after Virginia Woolf observed that <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/02/06/virginia-woolf-soul-aging/">“one can’t write directly about the soul [for] looked at, it vanishes,” </a>Lightman writes:

The Special Assemblage That We Call Consciousness

“The soul, as commonly understood, we cannot discuss scientifically. Not so with consciousness, and the closely related Self. Isn’t the experience of consciousness and Self an illusion caused by those trillions of neuronal connections and electrical and chemical flows? If you don’t like the word illusion, then you can stick with the sensation itself. You can say that what we call the Self is a name we give to the mental sensation of certain electrical and chemical flows in our neurons.”

“That sensation is rooted in the material brain. And I do not mean to diminish the brain in any way by affirming its materiality. The human brain is capable of all of the wondrous feats of imagination and self-reflection and thought that we ascribe to our highest existence. But I do claim that it’s all atoms and molecules.

“If someone began disassembling my brain one neuron at a time, depending on where the process began I might first lose a few motor skills, then some memories, then perhaps the ability to find particular words to make sentences, the ability to recognize faces, the ability to know where I was. During this slow taking apart of my brain, I would become more and more disoriented. Everything I associate with my ego and Self would gradually dissolve away into a bog of confusion and minimal existence.”

An understanding of death as “the name that we give to a collection of atoms that once had the special arrangement of a functioning neuronal network and now no longer does so” renders the boundary between life and death more like a shoreline redrawn by the receding tide pool than like a coastal cliff dropping off into the abyss. And yet even as a scientific materialist with no mystical inclinations and no belief in an afterlife, Lightman remains what we all are — fundamentally human — and gives voice to that fundamental humanity with uncommon splendor of sentiment:

The Boundary Or OverlapBetween Life And Death

“Despite my belief that I am only a collection of atoms, that my awareness is passing away neuron by neuron, I am content with the illusion of consciousness. I’ll take it. And I find a pleasure in knowing that a hundred years from now, even a thousand years from now, some of my atoms will remain in this place where I now lie in my hammock. Those atoms will not know where they came from, but they will have been mine. Some of them will once have been part of the memory of my mother dancing the bossa nova. Some will once have been part of my hand.”

”If I could label each of my atoms at this moment, imprint each with my Social Security number, someone could follow them for the next thousand years as they floated in air, mixed with the soil, became parts of particular plants and trees, dissolved in the ocean and then floated again to the air. Some will undoubtedly become parts of other people, particular people. Some will become parts of other lives, other memories. That might be a kind of immortality.”

As if it were not staggering enough how tiny a fraction of space life animates, Lightman observes that it also animates a fraction of time — not merely in terms of the transience of any one life, but in terms of all life occupying only a slender slice of the totality of time in the universe, as the discovery of cosmic acceleration has revealed.

Life Animates But A Fraction Of Space And Time

The cosmic brevity of “the era of life” is bookended on one end by the slow condensation of colossal gas clouds into the first stars that forged the first atoms large enough to form complex structures, after the universe had already existed for about one billion years, and bookended on the other by the eventual death of all stars when they burn out in several thousand billion years, leaving behind a dark lifeless expanse of pure spacetime.

A Lifetime Next To The Lifetime Of Stars

And yet even in these cold unfeeling cosmic facts, Lightman finds reason to swell the brevity of existence with the warm feeling of kinship that makes life worth living. With an eye to his grain-of-Gobi-sand analogy, he writes:“Life in our universe is a flash […], a few moments in the vast unfolding of time and space in the cosmos… A realization of the scarcity of life makes me feel some ineffable connection to other living things… a kinship in being among those few grains of sand in the desert, or present during the relatively brief era of life in the vast temporal sprawl of the universe.”

A Kinship With The Others Grains Of Sand

“We share something in the vast corridors of this cosmos we find ourselves in. What exactly is it we share? Certainly, the mundane attributes of “life”: the ability to separate ourselves from our surroundings, to utilize energy sources, to grow, to reproduce, to evolve.

“I would argue that we “conscious” beings share something more during our relatively brief moment in the “era of life”: the ability to witness and reflect on the spectacle of existence, a spectacle that is at once mysterious, joyous, tragic, trembling, majestic, confusing, comic, nurturing, unpredictable and predictable, ecstatic, beautiful, cruel, sacred, devastating, exhilarating. The cosmos will grind on for eternity long after we’re gone, cold and unobserved. But for these few powers of ten, we have been.We have seen, we have felt, we have lived.”

Beginnings and endings, or what we see as a beginning and an ending, like the coming of a New Year and the going of the “Old” one, unnerve us all. Here is an idea to foster and to share: “What exists is precious not because it will one day be lost but because it has overcome the staggering odds of never having existed at all.”

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Science & Nature

Probable Impossibilities: Physicist Alan Lightman on Beginnings, Endings, and What Makes Life Worth Living

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy

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Joseph Denis Murphy was an Irish author and New Thought minister, ordained in Divine Science and Religious Science.

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If you also think that - every one is your enemies and nobody cares about you and jealousy etc. Then you must have to note few things by which your thinking will be change and you can handle all that kind of Stuff very Finely. Every natural occurring carbon containing particle wants to be in stable state in world but why we are not giving wnoughlight on it.

Enemies......😈

Look there are many things happening around you and our life is so precious and brief that if you are happily enjoying then it will seems to be like a super sonic rocket you can't able to notice that is it day or night, is it good or bad you will always be in the Shower of happiness but if you are depressed or tensed it fells like a long slow train which is moving somewhere. Just think in which state do you want to be in life.

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So what other mocking is all depends upon our state of mind, also all the powers are in our hands you can be sad, depressed, angered or you be like a blossom like a flower every day. Choices your !!!!

Make Your Own State Of Mind 

.TRY TO MAKE EVERYBODY SMILE.NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THE DEATH APPROACHES TO US.

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We become builders by building and we become harpist by playing the harp. Similarly, then we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.

Fear is holding you back! It’s easier to live the life you are used to and not to get involved. You have something else your working on. Now is not a good time.

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The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy, Holiday explores the most foundational virtue of all: Courage. Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ancient Greeks spoke of phobos, panic and terror. It is natural to feel fear, the Stoics believed, but it cannot rule you. Courage, then, is the ability to rise above fear, to do what’s right, to do what’s needed, to do what is true. And so it rests at the heart of the works of Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and CS Lewis, alongside temperance, justice, and wisdom. In Courage Is Calling, Ryan Holiday breaks down the elements of fear, an expression of cowardice, the elements of courage, an expression of bravery, and lastly, the elements of heroism, an expression of valor. Through engaging stories about historic and contemporary leaders, including Charles De Gaulle, Florence Nightingale, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday shows you how to conquer fear and practice courage in your daily life. You’ll also delve deep into the moral dilemmas and courageous acts of lesser-known, but equally as important, figures from ancient and modern history, such as Helvidius Priscus, a Roman Senator who stood his ground against emperor Vespasian, even in the face of death; Frank Serpico, a former New York City Police Department Detective who exposed police corruption; and Frederick Douglass and a slave named Nelly, whose fierce resistance against her captors inspired his own crusade to end slavery. In a world in which fear runs rampant—when people would rather stand on the sidelines than speak out against injustice, go along with convention than bet on themselves, and turn a blind eye to the ugly realities of modern life—we need courage more than ever. We need the courage of whistleblowers and risk takers. We need the courage of activists and adventurers. We need the courage of writers who speak the truth—and the courage of leaders to listen. We need you to step into the arena and fight.

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday’s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy, Holiday explores the most foundational virtue of all: Courage. Almost every religion, spiritual practice, philosophy and person grapples with fear. The most repeated phrase in the Bible is “Be not afraid.” The ancient Greeks spoke of phobos, panic and terror. It is natural to feel fear, the Stoics believed, but it cannot rule you. Courage, then, is the ability to rise above fear, to do what’s right, to do what’s needed, to do what is true. And so it rests at the heart of the works of Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, and CS Lewis, alongside temperance, justice, and wisdom. In Courage Is Calling, Ryan Holiday breaks down the elements of fear, an expression of cowardice, the elements of courage, an expression of bravery, and lastly, the elements of heroism, an expression of valor. Through engaging stories about historic and contemporary leaders, including Charles De Gaulle, Florence Nightingale, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday shows you how to conquer fear and practice courage in your daily life. You’ll also delve deep into the moral dilemmas and courageous acts of lesser-known, but equally as important, figures from ancient and modern history, such as Helvidius Priscus, a Roman Senator who stood his ground against emperor Vespasian, even in the face of death; Frank Serpico, a former New York City Police Department Detective who exposed police corruption; and Frederick Douglass and a slave named Nelly, whose fierce resistance against her captors inspired his own crusade to end slavery. In a world in which fear runs rampant—when people would rather stand on the sidelines than speak out against injustice, go along with convention than bet on themselves, and turn a blind eye to the ugly realities of modern life—we need courage more than ever. We need the courage of whistleblowers and risk takers. We need the courage of activists and adventurers. We need the courage of writers who speak the truth—and the courage of leaders to listen. We need you to step into the arena and fight.

Ryan Holiday is media strategist for notorious clients like Tucker Max and Dov Charney. After dropping out of college at 19 to apprentice under the strategist Robert Greene, he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multi-platinum musicians. He is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel, where his work in advertising was internationally known. His strategies are used as case studies by Twitter, YouTube, and Google, and have been written about in AdAge, the New York Times, Gawker, and Fast Company. He is the author is *Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator*, which is due out in July. He currently lives in New Orleans, with his rebellious puppy, Hanno.

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Based on his childhood, Nikola had energy on his mind from an early age.Young Nikola dreamed of harnessing the power of Niagara Falls.By 1887, he had developed the alternating current as a way to transmit power over long distances.But the concept wasn’t immediately accepted.It wasn’t until the 1893 World Fair in ChicagoTesla was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of his idea and when he did,It was glorious by any measure.

Trust in your Life Long Goal

Many CEOs have unusual preferences and personal habits.Whether they’re motivated by wellbeing or organization, these quirks seem integral to their success.Nikola Tesla was eccentric and had a strong aesthetic sensibility.He teaches us to embrace our presence on the earth.No matter what you look, where you are from, it doesn’t matter.The only thing matters are what you can do for the future.

Embrace your You-ness

Though he took cat naps throughout the day.Tesla also claimed he never slept more than 2 hours.Once he stopped eating solid foods, opting instead for liquid sustenance like warm milk and juices.Tesla strongly believedThe ability to focus on something is directly proportional to the food he consumed.Tesla also smoked excessively for a short period,which he claimed threatened to ruin his health and he wasn’t able to focus.

Habits for being Productive

Nikola Tesla believed deeply in the power of solitude.“Be alone is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born”.We can reflect and think creatively, rather than diluting our attention with endless distractions.

Learn to love your own company

He regularly collaborated and socialized with some of the greatest minds of his time:Fellow scientists Politicians, Business people• Rudyard Kipling• John Muir• Henry Clay Frick• Albert EinsteinTesla Even received a celebratory letter from Albert Einstein himself on his 75th birthday.Surround yourself with people whom you respect and admire,from a variety of backgrounds and industries.

Surround yourself with interesting people

<ul><li>Be Fearless</li><li>Trust in your Life Long Goal</li><li>Embrace your You-ness</li><li>Habits for being Productive</li><li>Learn to love your own company</li><li>Surround yourself with interesting</li></ul>

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