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

So ask yourself: if you're reading a biography and you see them make this huge mistake, you see where ego is getting in their way, ask yourself, where is my ego getting in the way? voice-verified

Where am I acting like that? voice-verified

When you read a book about parenting, it should be, hey, how voice-verified

How am I gonna put this into practice? voice-verified

You underline something from Marcus Rulius about you know, keeping your temper in check, not losing your cool, and then voice-verified

A few minutes later you are tested in that very thing. voice-verified

This is the time for you to go, Hey, I'm gonna try that thing that I just read about. voice-verified

One of the last pages is December twenty second in the Daily Stoker quotes Seneca from voice-verified

His letters. voice-verified

He says, It is disgraceful for an old person or one inside of old age to only have the knowledge carried in their notebooks. voice-verified

Zeno said this. voice-verified

He says, What do you say? voice-verified

Cleanthes said that. voice-verified

What do you say? voice-verified

How long will you be compelled by the claims of another? voice-verified

Take charge and stake your own claim. voice-verified

Something posterity will carry in its notebook. voice-verified

So I I hope reading books encourages you to write and to write better. voice-verified

Not everyone needs to write a book, but you could write an article, you could write a post on social media, you could write a memo to your team, you could write letters to your own children, you could write a note to your spouse. voice-verified

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 voice-verified

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