Ryan Holiday
speaker
37,181 appearances
202 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard yesterday
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Just because a book is difficult, just because a book is long, doesn't mean that it's good.
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Right?
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It might mean that the author is indulgent, it might mean that the author had a bad editor, it might mean that they just don't know what they're talking about, it might be that they suck.
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People who aren't great readers obsess over finishing.
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They want to impress people with what they read, or just because they started, they think they have to finish.
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No, great readers quit.
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Books all the time.
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There's actually a great rule in this regard.
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It's 100 pages minus your age.
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I'm gonna give a book a lot more leeway than my 97-year-old grandmother is because I I can afford it.
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But the point is, just because you started a book doesn't mean you need to finish it, especially if it's not good.
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My job as a writer is not just to express what I have to say, but also to hold your attention and to
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teach you and to make the time you are giving me worth your while.
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Life is short, right?
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You're only gonna get to read so many books in your time.
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And and it's not just about how many books are you gonna read total.
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But what books are you gonna reread?
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I I've read Mark Swilus' Meditations well over a hundred times.
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There are novels I've read five or six or seven times because although the books don't change
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Who we are when we pick them back up.
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