Ryan Holiday
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36,899 appearances
200 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
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Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Admiral Stockdale was given by his philosophy teacher in 1962 as a graduate student at Stanford.
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He's leaving for his deployment, almost certainly going to the South China Sea.
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The war in Vietnam is just breaking out.
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And his teacher reaches up to a shelf and says, I have something for you, and hands him this edition of Epictetus and says, I think this might be of value to you.
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Which is really what reading is all about.
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There are these great books out there.
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There are books that have exactly the ideas and the things that you need to be who you're capable of being.
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And you've got to read those books and you've got to make use of them, which is, by the way, exactly what Stockdale did over his next several deployments.
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He said every free moment that he had that wasn't spent flying or on paperwork was spent reading this book and trying to get what he needed out of it.
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Which ultimately is what he draws on when he's shot down over Vietnam, going into what he knows is is either gonna be death or imprisonment and torture and solitary confinement and deprivation and exile and everything in between.
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Which leads me to, I guess, the first part, which is you've gotta find those books, right?
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It's about finding the right books.
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How did I get introduced to Epictetus and to Mark Schmidus?
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conference, I was twenty years old and I went up to the speaker afterwards and I said, Hey
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Do you have any book recommendations for someone my age?
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What?
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Should I be reading?
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Which by the way is a question that goes back to Emerson.
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Emerson said, You should be approaching wise and smart people and asking, What have you read?
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What I would definitely not advise you to do is read every new book, to read every trendy book, to read every bestseller.
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