Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And so one of the problems when you're young is you're impatient.
You want it now.
Yeah.
Because you don't have it and you want to stop doing the shit work.
You want to make your name.
You have things you have to say, you want to say, and you end up rushing that process.
And as a result, you either don't learn things that you need to learn or you alienate people or parts of the process that are really essential.
What I really admired about Robert, and what I still think is impressive about him, is here you have a guy who writes about these obscure stories from ancient history, these things that most people don't wake up and say, hey, I wanna know about this
14th century prince in Holland or France, or I want to know about some samurai whose name I can't pronounce.
And Robert has managed to not only make those things really compelling and interesting, but he's done it in these enormous books.
And they're extremely popular with people who don't read a lot.
I mean, his books are often the most checked out books at libraries.
They're the most shoplifted books.
They are incredibly popular in the prison system.
Robert has done a really good job of making these ideas, these things that are really interesting to him.
interesting to people who don't think they would be interested in those things.
And anytime you can, anytime you see someone doing something that shouldn't be possible, I'm really impressed by that.
Like if you see someone, hey, this person, they're not tall enough and yet they're thriving in the NBA or they're
they're old and their career as a runner is still going on, or they don't have a traditional education and yet they managed to do X, Y, or Z. I think you want to look at those kind of exceptions because they clearly figured out what actually matters, where they figured out how to do something in a unique way.
And so what struck me about Robert's books that I've taken in my own is that Robert doesn't tell the reader a lot.
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