Ryan Holiday

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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

And I don't just mean that because I'm an author and I need to read for my own books or because I own a bookstore, but because I take reading very seriously. voice-verified

It's made me a better human being, it's made me a better parent, it's made me a better professional, it's made me a better entrepreneur. voice-verified

So I have a methodology, I have a process that's allowed me to not just read a lot and to read widely and to read things that are difficult and complex, but to take that information and to use it in my actual life. voice-verified

And that's what we're going to talk about in today's video: some of the best strategies. voice-verified

Of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, which was recommended to me when I was about 20 years old. voice-verified

And what's remarkable to me about this, this totally unique book, The Private Thoughts of the Most Powerful Man in the World, was itself the product of a book recommendation. voice-verified

You see this here, Marcus Aurelius, the Emperor of Rome, thanks his philosophy teacher Rusticus at the beginning of meditations for teaching him how to read attentively and not be voice-verified

Satisfied with just getting the gist of things. voice-verified

He's teaching him the methodology and the practices for being a great reader, not just a surface level understanding. voice-verified

And he says, and for introducing me to Epictetus' lectures and loaning me his own copy. voice-verified

Here is my copy of Epictetus. voice-verified

These are two books that changed my life. voice-verified

This is actually the copy, just to make this even more full circle, that out. voice-verified

Admiral Stockdale was given by his philosophy teacher in 1962 as a graduate student at Stanford. voice-verified

He's leaving for his deployment, almost certainly going to the South China Sea. voice-verified

The war in Vietnam is just breaking out. voice-verified

And his teacher reaches up to a shelf and says, I have something for you, and hands him this edition of Epictetus and says, I think this might be of value to you. voice-verified

Which is really what reading is all about. voice-verified

There are these great books out there. voice-verified

There are books that have exactly the ideas and the things that you need to be who you're capable of being. voice-verified

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