Ryan Holiday

I don't believe that Free Fallen by Tom Petty was written in 1989.

It's much older than that.

And The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is obviously a song from the Civil War, right?

Like it could not have been written as recently as it was.

And very rarely do I have the experience where I read something new and I feel like this has been around forever.

And that's the feeling that I get reading The Road.

I thought some parenting books generally that I thought people would love if you were struck by the road as a kind of a parenting book.

Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves about the sort of male crisis, why young men are struggling.

There is something about...

sort of traditional masculinity that Cormac McCarthy embraces, I think, in most of his books that I do think is positive in the sense that it can inspire men to be the best of themselves.

So I thought that book was relevant.

We were talking about the sort of practical...

independence, craftiness, survivability skills.

Steve Rinella, he wrote a parenting book called Outdoor Kids in an Inside World that I've been raving about.

And one of my favorite lines in the book, he says, you want to raise kids that don't say ew a lot.

You want kids who'd be able to survive the world if something fell apart.

On a little more literary front, I think more people should read this.

This is Kafka's Letter to the Father, which is this confessional, heartbreaking, tragic letter that Kafka writes to his father who he was never really a fit with, never really got...

him and his father never really got his son um there's something very beautiful and vulnerable about this book i've always loved that i've said that just as the road is a parenting book in disguise i think david epstein's range is a parenting book in disguise it's about athletes primarily being generalists or specialists and it contrasts roger federer and tiger woods oh wow

But you can't talk about Tiger Woods and not think of it and that specialization from the lens of choices that his parents made very early.