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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes, something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage.

Justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoke philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. As you know, it's an author. Clearly I believe in the power of reading.

And there's basically no, no, there's no one who gives advice about life that says you shouldn't read. But what I think isn't said enough is that it's not just about reading, but it's about rereading.

It talks about the importance of lingering on the works of the master thinkers reading not just once, but many times having a lifelong engagement with the text. And I found that even with Marcus Relius, you know, having read meditation's north of a hundred times now I get something new out of it each time. And as Marcus says we never step in the same river twice that's what rereading is about.

So in today's episode I'm not going to tell you to read because you already know that's important. I'm talking to you, the reader about what you choose to read and I want to talk about the importance of rereading what you get out of it and why the still is want you to linger on the works of those master thinkers not just once, but several times over the course of a life.

And I think this is going to be a really important episode a few years ago actually as part of one of the daily still challenges I made a commitment to reread a handful of books each year. I try to think about those books at the beginning of the year.

So then when I'm sort of slipping between like I'm falling out of the rhythm, hey, I'm not reading anything great. I go back to something I know it's going to work again.

And so that's the message of today's episode. I think you're going to like it. And if you are looking to improve your reading practice and you want some more practical lessons like this.

Do check out the daily stoke read to lead challenge. It's one of the most important and most popular challenges we've done here at Daily Stoke. It's done great thousands of people all over the world have done it.

We've got nothing but great feedback. So check that out at daily still com slash read and of course if you're daily still a client member to get it for free.

So check it out and do reread even if you stop listening right now. Do me a favor and pick a book to reread this year.

I'm in the middle of rereading Santa Caz Letters. I first read Santa Caz Letters when I was in college about letters of a stoke, the Penguin Classics edition. It's sort of been 2006, 2007.

And I've reread it a bunch of times now. I'm actually in the middle of going through this one. This is a new translation, not a new translation, new translation for me. This is the low edition.

And the reason I'm rereading it is that it's been a while since I read it and I wanted to go back to something that had been so influential to me.

There's this great line. It actually appears in Marx Realist's meditation. He says no man steps in the same river twice. And the idea being that although it's the same book, I've changed the world has changed even in the 10 years maybe a little bit how people see Santa Caz has changed.

And so I'm getting all sorts of new things from it. So you can look at my notes here. All these different pages. I folded all these pages. It's filled with writing. You wouldn't think it would be filled with writing and observations given that I've already read it, given that I've written books about Santa Caz.

But I'm getting something new out of it. And that's really the importance of rereading. And Santa Caz himself, he talks about this in one of the early letters which I was just rereading, he talks about how he's suspicious of people who read only very widely who sort of flit from book to book.

He's saying that you actually have to sort of dwell on a number of master thinkers. And that the more times you read them, the deeper you go into the material, the more that sort of gets absorbed into your system and the more ideally is the whole point of reading and philosophy is to turn words into works.

So if you're just accumulating as much words as many words as possible, you're not doing it. It's about training. It's about muscle memory. It's about absorbing it into your soul.

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