Ryan Holiday
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37,979 appearances
208 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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He was always reading two or three books at a time and always making notes in the margins, especially in history books, frequently, very
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often he knew much more than the writer and he says his favorite word was bunk.
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He would write like bunk if he disagreed in the corners, which I love.
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The point is an author is making an argument and you don't have to accept that argument.
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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.
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You should be testing the ideas and there's a reason that they call philosophy the great conversation.
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It's not a one-way chat.
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They are talking to you through the ages, through the pages, and you are talking back with them.
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You read a book, there was great stuff in it, but where did it go?
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You lost it.
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So when I read what I do
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is I take notes, obviously.
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This is a book about Vietnam I was researching.
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These are all the books that I have read recently that I have to process.
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And for processing what I do is I take those ideas and I put them into note cards.
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Actually these are the note cards from my very first book, which I started writing
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In 2011, these are the note cards which I was going through today.
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I take what I like about a book and I transfer it to note cards.
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Sometimes it's a whole passage that I'm typing up.
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Sometimes a few words that come up, but the idea is I'm transferring this information into note cards.
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