Over on Ryan Holiday’s YouTube channel, he shares how he’s able to read hundreds of books each year and 16 ways you can read and retain more, too—no matter how busy you are.
So many of the books that have changed my life are just random things I grabbed off a table, on a shelf, at a bookstore that I chanced upon. I didn’t know that I was looking for them, but I was.
Why do the same patterns keep showing up in different centuries? In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Stephen Greenblatt joins Ryan to discuss why dangerous leaders do not look dangerous at first, how great thinkers survive unstable rulers, and why some of the most important ideas in history had to be hidden inside art, literature, and fiction just to stay alive.