Ryan Holiday

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37,480 appearances 205 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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The Daily Stoic · No One Is Excused From This | You’re Reading Books Wrong. Here’s A Better Way. · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

He knew all about them, and he had read all of Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman Empire several times. voice-verified

He was always reading two or three books at a time and always making notes in the margins, especially in history books, frequently, very voice-verified

often he knew much more than the writer and he says his favorite word was bunk. voice-verified

He would write like bunk if he disagreed in the corners, which I love. voice-verified

The point is an author is making an argument and you don't have to accept that argument. voice-verified

In fact you can disagree with it, you can push back on it, you can write things that you want to question or look up later. voice-verified

You should be testing the ideas and there's a reason that they call philosophy the great conversation. voice-verified

It's not a one-way chat. voice-verified

They are talking to you through the ages, through the pages, and you are talking back with them. voice-verified

You read a book, there was great stuff in it, but where did it go? voice-verified

You lost it. voice-verified

So when I read what I do voice-verified

is I take notes, obviously. voice-verified

This is a book about Vietnam I was researching. voice-verified

These are all the books that I have read recently that I have to process. voice-verified

And for processing what I do is I take those ideas and I put them into note cards. voice-verified

Actually these are the note cards from my very first book, which I started writing voice-verified

In 2011, these are the note cards which I was going through today. voice-verified

I take what I like about a book and I transfer it to note cards. voice-verified

Sometimes it's a whole passage that I'm typing up. voice-verified

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