Ryan Holiday

And obviously in a world of AI and slop and unending amounts of opinion tied to algorithmic valence, it's just really easy to go like, well, I'm reading, but you're reading something you shouldn't be reading because it's nonsense.

So people think that they're thinking or think that they're becoming informed and actually they're going in the wrong direction.

I do reread books.

I think that is important.

It's not just like, oh, I'd like to read more.

But there are definitely books that you need to read more than one time to wrap your head around.

But I'm always reading.

I'm always taking notes.

And then I'm trying to write that stuff down and organize it in some way.

I do that, obviously, professionally.

as a writer, but I do it personally too.

I write down, I read books about parenting and I try to write those things down.

Or I read books about money and I try to write those things down.

As I'm reading and learning, it's not just enough to be like, oh yeah, I think I get it.

One of the things Mark Cerullo thanks his philosophy teacher for at the beginning of meditations is he thanks him for teaching him never to be satisfied with just getting the gist of things.

which I think is kind of where a lot of people live, right?

People are not like actively ignorant or disinterested in knowing.

It's that they think they know.

They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it, right?

And to me, it's like, I hear something interesting or I learn something or I read something.