Life Is Too Short To Read Bad Books
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Wondery
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
To the Stoics, it wasn’t that we read. It’s what we read. We should seek out books that make a difference in our lives…not ones that win prizes. What matters is what we think of the books, not what other people think. What’s impressive is what we get out of them, not how they look on our shelves or that they might impress certain types of company.
Read widely. Read aggressively. But don’t be a glutton for punishment.
In October of 2022 Ryan Holiday was asked to speak at the Austin Central Library about the importance of reading books that resonate with you. In today’s episode, he shares a recording of that speech.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.4 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
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| 0:30.2 | you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
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| 1:10.3 | It's good to be with all of you. |
| 1:17.3 | Well, actually, I do feel like as a bookstore owner, I'm coming into the fows of my moral |
| 1:22.7 | enemy where you get to do the way books for free. |
| 1:27.0 | I think you guys at the socialism that my parents, friends on Facebook are warning me about. |
| 1:32.8 | I actually love libraries. |
| 1:35.4 | I wrote most of my first book at the library on the Chewland campus. |
| 1:41.0 | Actually, as I was prepping for this talk, I found this pencil which I still have that |
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