Stillness Is The Key Book Summary
Thinking clearly, avoiding distractions, managing impulses and happiness. Ryan Holiday looks at lessons from some of histories most accomplished humans and what we can learn from their practices of incorporating stillness into their lives.
Stillness Is The Key Book Summary Notes
- Learn to embrace stillness, it can be key to experiencing more peace and happiness in life.
- Stillness is an abstract idea, it can be quantified by deep thought or the experience of a powerful event.
- Stillness is not a new idea, infact most religions around the world also incorporate some form of the idea.
- Slow things down when your faced with big decisions. Take time to go somewhere quiet and peaceful to allow yourself time and space to think things through.
- These days we all struggle a little to be fully present in the moment. Limiting the inputs we allow into our lives can be a powerful way to help with this, consider even simple steps like turning off your phones notifications setting or taking a break from, and uninstalling, social media.
- An important part of finding stillness can be practices like meditation and journaling. Studies have even shown that keeping a journal can help with the processing of traumatic events.
- Don’t try to escape silence. Everywhere we turn in our modern lives there is a noise or something trying to gain our attention. Silence can help us focus and to find more stillness in life.
- Desire can be a destructive force in most people’s lives. You can conquer it by realising that you have enough, and by gaining the contentment that comes along with that revelation.
- Participating in physical activity is also an important part of finding stillness.
- Losing yourself in a hobby especially a physical one can help make room for silence.
