Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2022-01-22
Ryan Holiday & Robert Greene: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic (Jan 2022)
Robert Greene on the Wisdom of the Stoics
Ryan talks to bestselling author Robert Greene about the importance of understanding, processing, and observing your emotions, our natural tendency as humans to take the path of least resistance, how
Robert Greene discussed Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor. Ryan Holiday discussed Yes to Life by Viktor E. Frankl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Lolita
Discussed“and kind of the main story the icon of it is the writer vladimir nabokov lolita among many other great novels”
Where to get it
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Yes to Life
Discussed“they just published this new edition of some of the writings of victor frankl yeah and it's called um yes to life right and the subtitle is in spite of everything”
Where to get it
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My Stroke of Insight
Discussed“so there was another woman who i've she wrote a great book about her stroke called stroke of insight jill bolte”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The 48 Laws of Power
“i thought it was like a perfect metaphor for the 48 laws”
Plugged The 48 Laws of Power
“well he's also a bit like the character i wrote about in the 48 laws of power chuco liang”
Plugged The Laws of Human Nature
“it's not natural for us to get outside of ourselves our natural position which is sort of what i talked about in human nature about our narcissism”