Podcast: The Daily Stoic
Episode: Robert Greene And Ryan Holiday On Ego And Power: LIVE in LA
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
What If?
Buy on Amazon"Yeah, there's a whole series of books out called 'What If,' and they're fascinating; I don't know if you've ever read them."
The Dialogues of Plato
Buy on Amazon"But he ends up in this, he ends up in this bookstore, and the bookseller is reading one of, uh, Plato's dialogues or, I know, I guess it would have been one of Zenon's books."
The Odyssey of Homer
Buy on Amazon"And the the timelessness of that, and so, so many parts of the Odyssey are inexplicable; you know, as he gets there—not to spoil the ending—but you know he just, there's this sort of moment at the end where he just, you know, murders with his bare hands like a hundred people and just like, 'Of course he did!'"
The Nineties
Buy on Amazon"Chuck Klosterman wrote a great book called The 90s, and he was sort of talking about how, um, you know, September 10th, there were newspapers all over the country, and they were all doing their own headlines about what's happening in that city."
The First Three Minutes
Buy on Amazon"And you know, I read a book called The First Three Minutes, which is about the first three minutes of the universe."