Learning from the Great Ancients | SCOTT HAMBRICK

Order of Man

Ryan Michler

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

We all have access to the world's greatest minds, philosophies, experiments, and ideas. All it takes for us to tap into these is to crack open what my guest refers to as a Great Book, and unlock the lost thoughts, ideas, and secrets to a successful life.

Today I am joined by Scott Hambrick, founder of Online Great Books, to talk about how best to tap into these great ancient works, how to extract the most value from them, where to start when learning about ancient literature and philosophy, the benefits of reading the classics, and what you can learn from the great ancients.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

Why we should all read the classics
Harnessing technology to study the greats
The depth of the western canon (Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Socrates, etc.)
The right way to study ancient literature
The benefits of reading the classics
The Socratic Method
The correct way to hold a conversation around philosophy
The three components of grammar: logic, rhetoric, and context
Reading for comprehension
Developing your B.S detector
Who and what dictates a "great" book
What is language
The power of shared inquiry (AKA, curiosity)
Understanding truth

SCOTT HAMBRICK

My guest today is Scott Hambrick, he is the founder of Online Great Books and a certified Starting Strength Coach.

He's also an avid reader (which you'll hear from our conversation together) and a practitioner of the Socratic Method (which you'll hear him walk through with me during this conversation).

Through his work with Online Great Books, Scott is working to reintroduce tens of thousands of men to the great books of the western world.

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0:00.0	We all have access to the world's greatest minds, philosophies, experiments, and ideas,
0:04.8	and all it takes for us to tap into these is to crack open what my guest refers to
0:10.2	as a great book and unlock the lost thoughts, ideas, and secrets to a successful life.
0:16.0	Today, I am joined by Scott Hambrick, founder of Online Great Books to talk about how to best tap
0:21.2	into these great ancient works, how to extract the most value from them, where to start when
0:26.8	learning about ancient literature and philosophy, the benefits of reading the classics and what
0:32.2	you can learn from the great ancients. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest,
0:37.1	embrace your fears, and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up
0:42.5	one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred when defeated, rugged, resilient, strong.
0:49.6	This is your life, this is who you are, this is who you will become. At the end of the day,
0:55.1	and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on
1:00.7	today? My name is Ryan Mickler, and I am the host and the founder of this movement and this podcast,
1:05.2	the Order of Man. Man, I've gotten so many great messages from you guys over the past several
1:09.3	weeks on the guests that we have had on today as no exception. I've got a really interesting one
1:13.7	in a conversation that frankly we just haven't talked about, which is tapping into ancient
1:18.7	literature and the great minds of the past. So I think you guys are going to enjoy this one,
1:24.1	not a whole lot of announcements today. I really want to do a better job of just jumping right into
1:28.0	the meat of the discussion. So we'll get to that here in just a second because I do want to make
1:33.1	a quick mention of my friends over at Origin. I know I've talked to you guys a bit about what they're
1:38.5	doing, but I got one of their new products. And I think I mentioned this last week. It's called
1:43.2	Discipline Go. It's a cognitive and physical force multiplier. And frankly, I really didn't think
1:50.4	that I would experience any sort of feeling or any sort of result from this product, but oh my
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