Ryan Holiday
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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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is something different and so we can take something new out of them.
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And that's the ultimate caveat
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When I talk about quitting books too, there are books that I quit because they weren't working for me then.
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I didn't understand what was happening, I couldn't get the point.
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But then when I went and read about other things, where I was at a different phase of my life, I picked them back up and you know what?
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They were waiting for me.
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And I got exactly what I needed from them in that moment.
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So when I'm reading, I am reading with a pen in my hand.
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Not just to take notes, but reading should be a conversation.
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It should be a dialogue between you and the author.
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Actually
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McCullough talks about this in his biography with John Adams.
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John Adams was a master of the art of what we would call marginalia.
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On one book about the French Revolution, John Adams wrote 10,000 words of notes, right?
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So you can see in my edition, I took plenty of notes.
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Another American president who was a big practitioner of the art of marginalia was Harry Truman.
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Merle Miller got his hands on Harry Truman.
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Truman's copy of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
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And there are various passages where he wrote notes.
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This is one of Truman's friends, Judge Albert Ridge.
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