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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In fact, they actively seek out disconfirmation.
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They want to be challenged.
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They don't straw man the ideas that they disagree with.
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They read the steel man, the best versions of the arguments they disagree with, and that's how they get better and smarter and wiser.
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Okay, so if I had to summarize this in three points, I'd say
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Number one, read well and read widely.
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Number two,
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Don't just read, but but take notes.
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Extract.
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Organize, synthesize this information.
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Take it out of the books and put it somewhere that you can use it.
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Which leads me to the third and the final and the most important rule for reading.
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You have to apply it, right?
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We're not reading to impress people.
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We're not trying to collect random sentences or trivia.
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We are reading to become better people.
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Better professionals, better parents, better citizens.
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That's what this is all about.
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And then as a result of that change, of the things we've learned, go make the world different.
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Go make the world better.
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