Ryan Holiday

I want to know more about this.

So I think it's not like I read this book and then today I'm going to change everything.

That's the other part is like a lot of what you're learning and the reason you want to capture the information or put it somewhere is

is you read something and then 20 years later, you're like, isn't there something in that book about this?

Yeah.

You read books about parenting when you first have kids and then it's like, OK, well, this will be relevant when I have a 16 year old, but I currently have a 16 day old.

So I got to squirrel this away somewhere.

Well, and sometimes the gathering of information is actually a form of procrastination.

You know, you need both.

If you're like, oh, no, experience is the best teacher.

Sure, but it's also a very inefficient teacher.

It takes hundreds, thousands of hours to learn every lesson by trial and error.

And the idea then is like you want to read about the best practices and the best insights and the things that other people, not just one person, but people, plural, have learned in their experiences.

You want to start there.

And then you want to apply it in the real world, getting reps in whatever the thing you're doing is.

And then from these reps, you're able to layer on top of the academic knowledge that you have an understanding of what's still true and what isn't true anymore, what makes the most sense for you, what you're best at, what makes sense in the environment you're in.

Again, it's the fusing of these two that's really important.

To just learn how to write by writing,

I mean, you can do that.

You're just going to have to write a lot of shitty things for a long time.