Ryan Holiday

And he's like, this is the path to wisdom.

If you do this every day,

At some point in the future, you will have a lot of these days stacked on top of each other.

And the cumulative result of that will be a lot.

It's actually not the cumulative result.

It's the compounding results of that, right?

So it's like you're reading something and then you're experiencing something and then you're reading more and then you're experiencing.

And all of that is building on itself.

And if you're just making a small contribution each day, it might not seem like much.

But not only are you, you compare this with people who are doing none of this, right?

And then you also compare it to who you were then before you did all this work and you realize it does, it adds up very quickly.

What you basically just described is graduate school, right?

Like, yeah, you get assigned a text and then you have discussion sections and you have to write papers or produce articles.

a distillation of what you read, right?

And you do that for a long enough time, you build up a pretty big base of knowledge very quickly.

Same with me.

I mean, I dropped out of college at the end of my sophomore year, but my education really began then when I started reading, not because I was assigned reading, but because I was genuinely curious about things.

And then I was reading about things that pertained to what I was

being paid to work on.

And that's really where the when you can combine study and research with the ability to put things into practice and get real world feedback.