Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He shows the reader.
Robert's books are stories.
that illustrate timeless things about human nature, about seduction, about power, about politics, about life.
And so when I sat down to write about what I wanted to write about, which was ancient philosophy, one of the things I looked at was
okay, I can describe this philosophy and tell people what it's about, or I can show them what it's about through stories.
And that's probably the way that Robert's work influenced me the most.
And then as his research assistant, I really learned how you do that well.
Yeah, and one of his books is basically like 500 books.
Like he read all this stuff and he's distilled it down into a single volume and going, oh, okay, that's the job of the author is to take all these different ideas, all these different cultures, all these different lessons
and put it in one package, kind of condense it down, boil it down to its essence.
Robert wants to go read 500 books.
I love reading 500 books.
But your average person does not have time to do that.
They're not a history nerd.
And so how do you take what's interesting to you and put it together in a format that can work for someone who's busier or not so inclined?
Well, I would say the biggest hustle that I pulled off is that I got paid to work for Robert Greene as he was actually teaching me.
And then I went on and I did digital marketing for American Apparel and then ran much of their traditional marketing as well.
But all the while, I was learning from Dov Charney, who was at that time a marketing genius who'd sort of figured out how one generates earned media with sort of provocative advertising campaigns.
So
I did a lot of campaigns, but I also learned from him.
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