Ryan Holiday
speaker
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 point is to take the things that you have learned, to put them into practice, to learn from that, and then to synthesize all of this into your own knowledge, which hopefully you communicate and pass on to the next generation so they can learn from
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From your experiences as well as their own.
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One thing that's really important to remember as a reader is that you shouldn't just be reading books that you agree with and you shouldn't just be reading about things that you know about.
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Right?
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Books should be doors, not mirrors, it's been said, right?
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It should be a window into another world, into somebody else's experience, not just reflecting back to you what you want to see or what you already contain within yourself.
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The banned books library that's next door to my bookstore, where people can take or leave books that have been banned or challenged that are controversial.
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The books that are banned and controversial, that people have strong opinions about, that authorities think you shouldn't be able to read, or that the church has tried to take away or suppressed at various points in history that communist governments have suppressed, or whatever the reason is, those are the books that you should be.
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reading, not because they're always correct.
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And in fact, that's precisely the reason.
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There are books in this fan book library that I vehemently disagree with.
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Some that I find abhorrent and repugnant.
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But that didn't prevent me from reading them.
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That didn't prevent me from having the conversation in the pages.
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And in fact, in reading something that I disagree with that I didn't like, I was challenged to rethink my own thinking.
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You know who Seneca quotes more than any other philosopher in his writings?
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It's Epicurus, ostensibly the head of a rival school of philosophy.
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He says, I want to read like a spy in the enemy's camp.
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He says, I'll quote a bad author if the line is good.
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The point is, read people you disagree with.
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