Ryan Holiday
speaker
38,174 appearances
209 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 banned books library that's next door to my bookstore, where people can take or leave books that have been banned or challenged that are controversial.
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The books that are banned and controversial, that people have strong opinions about, that authorities think you shouldn't be able to read, or that the church has tried to take away or suppressed at various points in history that communist governments have suppressed, or whatever the reason is, those are the books that you should be.
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reading, not because they're always correct.
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And in fact, that's precisely the reason.
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There are books in this fan book library that I vehemently disagree with.
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Some that I find abhorrent and repugnant.
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But that didn't prevent me from reading them.
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That didn't prevent me from having the conversation in the pages.
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And in fact, in reading something that I disagree with that I didn't like, I was challenged to rethink my own thinking.
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You know who Seneca quotes more than any other philosopher in his writings?
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It's Epicurus, ostensibly the head of a rival school of philosophy.
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He says, I want to read like a spy in the enemy's camp.
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He says, I'll quote a bad author if the line is good.
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The point is, read people you disagree with.
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Don't just read another book about a topic that you're a world-class expert in.
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How did you become an expert in the first place?
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By reading about something that you didn't know about, that at one point you didn't even.
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Even know you were interested in.
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So great readers read widely.
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They don't just read for confirmation.
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