Work, Family, Scene: You Can Only Pick Two

Life is about tradeoffs

Ryan Holiday
Forge
Published in
5 min readNov 10, 2021

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When I first moved to Austin in 2013, I went out to lunch — fittingly — with a writer named Austin Kleon. I was a longtime fan of his book Steal Like an Artist (his book Keep Going is a new favorite). After we ate, he drove me around the city, showing me things and giving me advice.

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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Bestselling author of ‘Conspiracy,’ ‘Ego is the Enemy’ & ‘The Obstacle Is The Way’ http://amzn.to/24qKRWR