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On the Strength of Silence: Ryan Holiday

March 01, 2023 by Katie Musgrave in Idea, Action, Language, Image, Impression

Stoic philosophy warns against the social tendency to express every thought we have to others.

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March 01, 2023 /Katie Musgrave
Ryan Holiday, Discipline is Destiny, Expression, Clarity, Purpose, Virtue, Temperance, Style, Concision, Silence, Strength
Idea, Action, Language, Image, Impression

Great Lines: Herman Melville

October 12, 2022 by Katie Musgrave in Craft, Language, Writing, Style, Persuasion

Melville’s simple expository style offers a pointed and poetic line: the observed human truth.

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October 12, 2022 /Katie Musgrave
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Writing, Language, Craft, Style, Character, Queequeg, Soul
Craft, Language, Writing, Style, Persuasion

Sustine et Abstine: The Stoic Maxim

August 17, 2022 by Katie Musgrave in Idea, Language, Action

The phrase ‘bear and forbear’ calls for the Stoic to endure the trials of life with self-command.

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August 17, 2022 /Katie Musgrave
Stoics, Stoicism, Maxim, Epictetus, Sustine et Abstine, Complaining, Patience, Discipline, Self-Command, Style, Ryan Holiday
Idea, Language, Action

On Self-Styling

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July 26, 2018 by Katie Musgrave in Action, Impression, Media

Thanks to social media and the current acceleration of identity politics, our engagement with self-styling is near constant.

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July 26, 2018 /Katie Musgrave
Language, Image, Social media, Politics, Style, Self
Action, Impression, Media


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