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Diving into ‘Right Thing, Right Now Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds.’, I was immediately captivated by its profound exploration of the timeless virtue of justice. Ryan Holiday masterfully weaves together historical anecdotes and contemporary insights in a way that resonates deeply and challenges our modern perceptions of what it means to live justly.

In this, his third installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Holiday presents a compelling argument for the necessity of doing the right thing, even when it isn’t easy. He reminds us that the ancients held a strong sense of justice as the foundation upon which all other virtues rested.

The modern world may tell us that acting justly is optional, but Holiday convincingly argues otherwise. He suggests that our unhappiness stems from a lack of fortitude to uphold our convictions in the face of adversity.

Throughout the book, Holiday shares captivating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass. Their lives serve as beacons of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty, offering us pillars upon which to build our own lives of upright living.

What I found most transformative about this book was the realization that living justly is not easy, but it is necessary. The alternativesacrificing our principles for something lesseris considered only by cowards and fools. ‘Right Thing, Right Now’ serves as a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age and offers a manual for living virtuously.

  • INSTANT #1
  • NEW YORK TIMES
  • BESTSELLERIn his
  • New York Times
  • bestselling book,
  • Discipline Is Destiny
  • , Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a life of self-discipline. In this much-anticipated third installment in the
  • Stoic Virtues
  • series, he argues for the necessity of doing whats right even when it isnt easy
  • For the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justiceor ones commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult. In order to be courageous, wise, and self-disciplined, one must begin with justice. The influence of the modern world often tells us that acting justly is optional. Holiday argues that thats simply untrueand the fact that so few people today have the strength to stand by their convictions explains much about why were so unhappy.In
  • Right Thing, Right Now,
  • Holiday draws on fascinating stories of historical figures such as Marcus Aurelius, Florence Nightingale, Jimmy Carter, Gandhi, and Frederick Douglass, whose examples of kindness, honesty, integrity, and loyalty we can emulate as pillars of upright living. Through the lives of these role models, readers learn the transformational power of living by a moral code and, through the cautionary tales of unjust leaders, the consequences of an ill-formed conscience.The Stoics never claimed that living justly was easy, only that it was necessary. And that the alternativesacrificing our principles for something lesserwas considered only by cowards and fools.
  • Right Thing, Right Now
  • is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age, and a manual for living virtuously.
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