The Daily Stoic - BONUS | Joe Rogan's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)

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Starting point is 00:02:08 I've read daily stoic.com. No, no, no. These are books. Different books. I know, love empire the summer moon yes so i tried to pick some books that i think i got i went through my story this morning i was like these are books i don't think i haven't heard you talk about that i think

Starting point is 00:02:36 you'll fucking love okay all right gang is con in the making of the modern world i know you don't like him very much but i think it's a different view no i i think you will see him in a different way okay uh the tiger this book will rip your fucking face off what's this book this book is about a guy in siberia sent to hunt down a man eating tiger oh and it's Literally, I know it's one of the best nonfiction books ever in because I've heard from so many people. And then, have you read Shadow Divers? No. It's about these guys diving.

Starting point is 00:03:07 It seems like Christmas. This is my life, man. They're diving a sunk German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey that they discover. Oh, wow. And it's like all about the thrill of, like, diving and discovering something and the mastery of this thing that could kill you at any moment. Have you read the Black Count? No. Okay, this is, you know the Count of Montecristo, the famous story?

Starting point is 00:03:30 Okay, Alexander Dumas, his father was one of Napoleon's generals, but he's black. Oh, wow. And his real life story is fucking incredible. This one of the Pulitzer Prize, speaking of prizes, it definitely deserved to. It's amazing. Wow. All right. River of Doubt, you read this?

Starting point is 00:03:50 No. I can't believe how many books you brought. I figure you're going to get them all on audio, but I'll give them to you. Okay, so after Theodore Roosevelt is president, he goes to Africa, he kills a bunch of animals, the greatest hunting trip of all time. But this book is about, he explores like a 500-mile river in the Amazon, the first time a human being has ever done this. And he almost dies. He takes his son, his son with him. He almost dies.

Starting point is 00:04:16 Actually, if you look up, if you look up Theodore Roosevelt, Epictetus, he brings a copy of Epictetus with him on. on this journey. Did you ever go to his birthplace in New York City? No. Next time you go, you can go to the house that he grew up in. You can see. They maintain it? Yeah, it's still there. How big is it? It's just like a townhouse in New York City. Oh, wow. And you can see the gym where he worked out his asthma and became like the dude that he became. But if you, if you look up, you can see, he took a copy of Epicetus with him that he wrote as he was near death. He's one of the main reasons why we have public land in this country. Yeah. We have our wildlife preservation system that we have in place.

Starting point is 00:04:57 He also saves professional football. He gets them to wear helmets. People would die playing football at Harvard, and he loved sports. And he comes together, forms the NCAA, and institutes safety. Wow. This is a book about, yeah,

Starting point is 00:05:15 so if you click on, see what's signed, this is like the engraved copy that he takes with him. Oh, wow. But that book's amazing. Wicked River. the Mississippi when it last ran wild. The Mississippi is fucking crazy.

Starting point is 00:05:30 I have more. Can I keep going? Okay. All right. I know your daughters are into sports. So this is a book I give to every college coach that I talk to. It's about this. She's one of the great cross-country runners of her generation.

Starting point is 00:05:42 She commits suicide. She runs off a parking garage. Oh. And so it's about mental health and pressure. And the, I think it's any person who has a kid who is good at sports and wants to make something of it and Kate Fagan's an incredible writer

Starting point is 00:05:59 should read that book it's like a cautionary sort of warning and about what social media does to kids actually I did this book with Chris Bosch he lives here you might like that and then at last I have two more

Starting point is 00:06:13 this is the best history of Texas it's fucking epic the best history of Texas you have if you if you I would listen to it you could listen to that one one but seriously it is also incredible okay and then all right last one this is my favorite translation of meditations i don't know if this is the one you read but i would read

Starting point is 00:06:35 this and then i know you like uh stephen pressfield this is the first edition of the war of art that he signed wow all right that i read that book every time i start a project it's a great book dude it's one of the great the resistance it's it's so perfectly outlined that's what that's what it is that's what you're at war with in every thing thank you very much ryan i read a lot it's sort of my job you can't write without reading but for almost 15 years now once a month i send out an email with my favorite book recommendations for that month books that i've been reading books that i've been going through books that changed my life that inspired me that i think connect to what's happening in the world and you could sign up right

Starting point is 00:07:17 now at ryanholiday dot net slash reading list Thank you.

The Daily Stoic - BONUS | Joe Rogan's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)

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