The Obstacle Is the Way

I don't think moral outrage is the best way to engage with books, but this book is kind of evil.
Some of the advice and insights are useful, but just because a book provides useful advice, it doesn't mean it's good. Holiday's writing is reiterative and derivative, and then he uses so much of the book to praise evil people, using examples of the hardships or challenges they faced and how they used them to their advantage, without any nuance. Maybe the point was that we could learn good things from terrible people, and probably that's where his love for slave master Marcus Aurelius comes from. But maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Two stars.