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" Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth. "

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" The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging. "

Ryan Holiday

Process

Finding

Rise

" The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial. "

" My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. "

" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "

" We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day. "

" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "

" Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life. "

Ryan Holiday

Changed

Drew

" Growth hacking isn't some proprietary technical process shrouded in secrecy. In fact, it has grown and developed in the course of very public conversations. There are no trade secrets to guard. "

" It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation. "

Ryan Holiday

Violence

See

" Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught. "

" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "

" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "

" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "

" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "

" We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if we've earned it. "

" Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is. "

" Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second. "

" Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols. "

" Everyone needs to start doing interviews over email. Whether you're a journalist or a spokesperson speaking to the media, you're better off communicating questions, statements, or inquiries via email. "

" One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself. "

" You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. "

" 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. "

" If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention. "

" The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. "

Ryan Holiday

Seem

Marketing

" Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused. "

Ryan Holiday

Democratic

Leaders

" Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users. "

" In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you're being taught precisely how not to run an organization. "

" There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it. "

" Everyone faces adversity. "

" Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever. "