Podcasts that mention 📚 Lives by Plutarch

um i think biographies have had a very large impact on me um you know plutarch's greek and roman lives after i read plato i started reading a bunch of stuff greek stuff

Sergey mentions reading Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives after reading Plato, as part of reading Greek literature, and notes the value of intellectual ideas that survive the test of time.

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Um the line that stands out to me and I think to a lot of us uh is from Plutarch in his work lives where he says the first messenger that gave notice of Lucilles's coming was so far from pleasing Ty Grains that he had his head caught off were his pains and no man dared to bring further information without any intelligence at all.

The host quotes a specific passage from Plutarch's work 'Lives' to illustrate the ancient concept of not harming the messenger.

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I mean, we — I'm trying to remember what books I had; man, I had like, uh, BJ Penn's book, Eddie Bravo's book, like the actual textbooks, and then I started buying the instruction. I was like, I had Kiro Pan's Judo for MMA, I had Ryan Hughes; he was one — he really changed the game with instructionals in the early days.

During this episode with Craig Jones, he discusses how he learned jiu-jitsu techniques from various books, specifically mentioning 'BJ Penn's book' as one of the key resources he used.

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