Ryan Holiday

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37,979 appearances 208 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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You should be testing the ideas and there's a reason that they call philosophy the great conversation. voice-verified

It's not a one-way chat. voice-verified

They are talking to you through the ages, through the pages, and you are talking back with them. voice-verified

You read a book, there was great stuff in it, but where did it go? voice-verified

You lost it. voice-verified

So when I read what I do voice-verified

is I take notes, obviously. voice-verified

This is a book about Vietnam I was researching. voice-verified

These are all the books that I have read recently that I have to process. voice-verified

And for processing what I do is I take those ideas and I put them into note cards. voice-verified

Actually these are the note cards from my very first book, which I started writing voice-verified

In 2011, these are the note cards which I was going through today. voice-verified

I take what I like about a book and I transfer it to note cards. voice-verified

Sometimes it's a whole passage that I'm typing up. voice-verified

Sometimes a few words that come up, but the idea is I'm transferring this information into note cards. voice-verified

And I have written thousands and thousands and thousands of note cards over the years. voice-verified

Every one of my books is made up of these note cards. voice-verified

I have voice-verified

Thousands of blank ones for projects I'm working on now. voice-verified

And I'm recording this information so I can organize it. voice-verified

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