Ryan Holiday

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The Daily Stoic · No One Is Excused From This | You’re Reading Books Wrong. Here’s A Better Way. · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

I'd urge you to read the books that have stood the test of time. voice-verified

My wife and I uh and a bunch of our friends right now are reading uh Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian. voice-verified

When Thucydides sat down to write, he said, I'm not writing a book for this moment. voice-verified

I am writing a book that will stand the test of time, maybe even last forever. voice-verified

Here we are 2,500 years later, still learning lessons from it. voice-verified

So don't ask yourself, what's everyone else reading right now? voice-verified

But go, what are the people who I really admire that I respect, not just of this moment, but for all time? voice-verified

What were the books that shaped them? voice-verified

What's a problem I'm dealing with, and what's an analog moment in time where people have dealt with problems like that? voice-verified

So I find so often that what we're talking about right now lacks the perspective and the history that going back a hundred years or five hundred years or a thousand years allows you to see. voice-verified

You want the partisanship to go away, you want some of the preconceived notions to go away, and you want to read great texts that can really teach you something. voice-verified

As ultimately we see with Marx Realis' Meditations and how Epictetus influenced him. voice-verified

The right book at the right time to the right person can change the course of history. voice-verified

One mistake that rookie readers make is that they don't quit enough books. voice-verified

Finishing a book isn't an accomplishment in and of itself. voice-verified

I think sometimes people are more concerned with like checking a box or being able to put something on their Goodreads account than they actually are with reading something and getting something out of it. voice-verified

There's a funny stoic story in this regard, too. voice-verified

There's this one young student who's bragging about how. voice-verified

He's read all of the works of Chrysippus, who not just wrote at length, but wrote a lot. voice-verified

Epictetus overhearing this uh said, you know, if Chrysippus was a better writer, you'd have less to brag about. voice-verified

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