Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of "Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media ""Manipulator". After dropping out of college at 19 to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of "The 48 Laws of Power", he went on to advise many bestselling authors and multiplatinum musicians, and served as director of marketing at American Apparel. He currently lives in Austin and writes for "Thought Catalog "and the "New York Observer".