Ryan Holiday
speaker
37,894 appearances
207 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard today
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In fact, he argued that it was essential that soldiers learned from the past, from the experiences of others, because the alternative was filling up body bags as they figured things out on their own.
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Reading is a form of magic.
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It is time travel.
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It is a way to steal a march on our enemies.
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Through it, through the pages of a book, we gain the wisdom that others earned quite painfully.
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Through philosophy, as Seneca said, we can annex all the knowledge of the past into our own lives.
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Who would be so arrogant as to think they don't need to do that?
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Who would be so stupid as to want to learn by trial and error what they can learn from the trial and error of others?
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Books are literally manuals for living.
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They contain the wisdom of the collective human experience.
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Reading someone's thoughts, their feelings, their advice, their directions is a kind of shortcut for us.
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The advice, the facts, the perspective, the thoughts, this was things they took the time to write down so that others could benefit from them, so that others wouldn't have to make the same mistakes, so that others could live better lives, learning lessons this way rather than just repeating.
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repeating it themselves.
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Yet what do most people do?
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Most people don't read.
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Most of us don't read enough.
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No one, no Marine, no leader, no citizen, no parent, no one who wants any measure of success is excused from studying.
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Not now, not ever.
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We must drink deeply from history, from philosophy, from books.
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journalists, from historians and geniuses.
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