The Daily Stoic - Why You Must Return Again and Again

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

"You were in high school when you read The Great Gatsby for the first time. You were just a kid when you read The Count of Monte Cristo or had someone tell you the story of Odysseus. Maybe it’s been many years now since you first picked up the Stoics, whether it was Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. The point is: You got it right? You read them. You’re done, right?"Ryan discusses a better way to re-engage with books you've read before in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.Sign up for the Daily Stoic Read to Lead challenge: https://dailystoic.com/read***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com. Why you must return again and again. You were in high school when you read the great Gatsby for the first time. You were a kid when you read the Count of Monte Cristo or someone told you the story of Odysseus. Maybe it's been a few years now since you first picked up the Stoics, whether it was Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. The point is, you got it, right? You read them. You're done, right? No.

There is a select group of writers, Stefan's Waiigman's wrote, who are accessible to anyone at whatever age or stage of life, home or Shakespeare, Gertr, Balzac, Tolstoy. And then there are those whose significance is not properly revealed into a particular moment, he said. Specifically, Zwide was talking about Montenna, a fellow traveler of the Stokes, and one of the great essayists of all time when Zwag had read Montenna for the first time in his early 20s It didn't quite land his wisdom so gentle and tempered Zwag wrote remained foreign to me It had arrived prematurely It wasn't until Hitler sent Zwag into exile

It wasn't until his books were burned in the streets and he was living as a refugee in Brazil That Zwag happened to bump back into Montenna. But when he did, it was magical. The reconnection was instant. The wisdom that had been foreign and premature was suddenly relevant and perfectly molded for the moment. It was an awakening that would comfort Zwag for the remainder of his short time on the planet

and inspire possibly his greatest piece of writing, a short book titled Fittingly Montenna. This is why we cannot be content to simply pick up a book once and judge it by that experience. It's why we have to read and reread. It's why we must linger on a number of master thinkers, as Seneca said, because the world is constantly changing. We are changing. Therefore, what we get out of those books can change. It's not enough to read the Stoics once. You have to read them at every age,

every era of your life, so too for Shakespeare and other great pieces of literature. We never step in the same river twice, Marcus Aurelia said, and that's why we must return again and again and again to the great works of history. If you're looking to be a better reader to make reading and active practice in your life, specifically if you're looking to get better at rereading,

which is a journey I've been on the last year or so, strongly suggest you check out our daily Stoke Reading Challenge. We're calling it read to lead. And it's all sorts of great lessons from the Stokes and some of the wisest people in history about how to read better, how to retain more of what you read, how to find really great books, how to challenge yourself, how to grow as a reader. So check that out at dailystoke.com

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