Ryan Holiday
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I've definitely evolved on things, but so I guess my point is I do see it more as an evolution.
My beliefs are changing and evolving and I'm layering new understanding on them.
I haven't had those same conversion moments that some people have had, which I do talk about in the book.
Oh, you did?
I think I knew that.
I was confirmed Catholic.
We went to church every weekend.
So I didn't necessarily believe, like, I just came out of the womb thinking this way.
But I remember going to church often enough that I felt compelled to do the work to figure out how to believe in this thing everyone was telling me to believe in.
Right?
I see.
And then...
When I got to college, I read Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.
I read all those.
This is right in this sort of boom of those atheist books.
It was like, OK, obviously, God does not exist.
Right.
I read those books and I was quite certain I went from not so much certain, but I was like I was of one view and then I had another view.