Why stillness matters

Holiday defines stillness as being steady while the world spins around you. He finds the idea in many traditions, including Stoicism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Epicureanism and Christianity.

He opens with John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, who resisted pressure for a quick military strike and took time to think, helping to avoid a nuclear war. The book then looks at stillness in three areas: the mind, the spirit and the body.