Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2021-10-13
Ryan Holiday & Robert Greene: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic (Oct 2021)
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Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to bestselling author Robert Greene about his new book The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature, the process of writing some of his bestselling books, how to have courage in the modern world, and more.
Ryan Holiday recommended Yes to Life by Viktor E. Frankl, and discussed The Daily Laws by Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and others, The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene and others, The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene, The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, The 50th Law by 50 Cent and others, and Great Contemporaries by Winston S. Churchill. Robert Greene discussed The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene and others and Leaders by Richard Nixon.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 48 Laws of Power
Discussed“and it's kind of a tricky thing because if you go 48 laws of power maybe they get turned off because it's dark”
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The Art of Seduction
Discussed“if you went with seduction maybe they're that's not what they're in it”
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The Laws of Human Nature
Discussed“like i was talking to a football player actually he plays at alabama and he was he had heard that the laws of human nature was really good and i thought that's probably to me that's like advanced class”
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The Power Broker
Discussed“i heard robert caro cut like 300 000 words out of the power broker”
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The 33 Strategies of War
Discussed“and then when i did the 33 strategies of war i wanted to have a seduction story in there”
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The 50th Law
Discussed“other than maybe the intro to the 50th law where there's the word i in heaven”
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Leaders
Discussed“oh really i got it from nick i read a book that nixon wrote it's this fascinating book called leaders where nixon wrote about all the leaders he had spent time with”
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Great Contemporaries
Discussed“um i talk about this in the book because there's another similar book to the nixon one that churchill wrote called great contemporaries who wrote biographies of people that he knew in his own time”
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Yes to Life
Recommended“there's a new victor frankel like a series like a lost set of his lectures called yeah the title to me is amazing it's yes to life the subtitle is in spite of everything”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“because you i think it talked about ego is the enemy”
“like i've liked like people will be like uh i haven't read your book ego is the enemy”