"I'm more of a business book person," he told Wyshynski."
"So I've been reading a lot of Ryan Holiday, and I know it's not necessarily strictly, like, business and how he correlates it. It's more on leadership," Carbery said. "I read a lot of his stuff. And he sent me, actually - '(The) Obstacle Is the Way' is a great read if you haven't read that."
"Stoicism philosophy about the distinction between what you can control and what you can't - obstacles - bad games, slumps, poor calls," MacLellan said then. "The hardest part of pro sports is to detach yourself from the day-to-day emotion about losing a game ... how do we keep focus on our process - what we do and execute it."
Spencer Carbery prefers business books and general leadership literature over sports-specific coaching tomes. Carbery reads many works by Ryan Holiday and recommends The Obstacle Is the Way for leadership and resilience. Capitals president Brian MacLellan linked Stoicism to focusing on controllable factors and detaching from day-to-day emotion to maintain process after losses. Senators defenseman Jake Sanderson and former Capitals forward Garnet Hathaway have applied Holiday's stoic principles in their careers. Ryan Holiday's Stoic writing has attracted followers across professional sports, including notable interest within the NFL.
Read at RMNB
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]