BONUS | Joe Rogan's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)

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• 0:05Speaker 00

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• 0:56Ryan Holiday?

  I've read some books, by the way. Fantastic. Thank you very much. These are all yours? No, no, no. These are books- Different books. I know, because I know you love Empire of the Summer Moon. Yes. So I tried to pick some books that I think- I went through my store this morning and I was like, "These are books I don't think- I haven't heard you talk about that. I think you will fucking love." Okay. All right. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I know you don't like him very much, but I think it's a different view. Not that I don't like him. No, I think you will see him in a different way. Okay. The Tiger. This book will rip your fucking face off. What's this about? This book is about a guy in Siberia sent to hunt down a man-eating tiger. Ooh. And it's literally- I know it's one of the best nonfiction books ever written because I've heard from so many people about it. And then, have you read Shadow Divers? No. It's about these guys diving-

• 1:41Ryan Holiday?

  Seems like Christmas. This is my life, man. They're diving a sunk German U-boat off the coast of New Jersey that they discover. Oh, wow. And it's like all about the thrill of diving and discovering something and the mastery of this thing that could kill you at any moment. Have you read The Black Count? No. Okay, this is- You know The Count of Monte Cristo? Yes. The famous story? Okay, Alexander Dumas. His father was one of Napoleon's generals, but he's black. And his real-life story is fucking incredible. It's won the Pulitzer Prize. Speaking of prizes, it definitely deserved to. It's amazing. Wow. All right. River of Doubt, you read this?

• 2:24Speaker 02

  No, I can't believe how many books you brought.

• 2:26Ryan Holiday?

  I figure you're gonna get them all on audio, but I'll give them to you. Okay, so after Theodore Roosevelt was president, he goes to Africa, kills a bunch of animals, the greatest hunting trip of all time. But this book is about, he explores like a 500-mile river in the Amazon, the first time a human being has ever done this. And he almost dies, he takes his son, his son with him, he almost dies. Actually, if you look up, if you look up Theodore Roosevelt Epictetus, he brings a copy of Epictetus with him on this journey. Did you ever go to his birthplace in New York City?

• 3:03Speaker 02

  No.

• 3:03Ryan Holiday?

  Next time you go, you can go to the house that he grew up in.

• 3:05Speaker 02

  They maintain it?

• 3:07Ryan Holiday?

  Yeah, it's still there.

• 3:08Speaker 02

  How big is it?

• 3:09Ryan Holiday?

  It's just like a townhouse in New York City.

• 3:10Speaker 02

  Oh, wow.

• 3:11Ryan Holiday?

  And you can see the gym where he worked out his asthma and became like the dude that he became. But if you, if you look up, you can, he took a copy of Epictetus with him that he wrote as he was near death.

• 3:23Speaker 02

  He's one of the main reasons why we have public land in this country. We have our wildlife preservation system that we have in place.

• 3:31Ryan Holiday?

  He also saves professional football. He gets them to wear helmets. People would die playing football at Harvard, and he loved sports. And he comes together, forms the NCAA, and institutes safety.

• 3:47Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 3:48Ryan Holiday?

  This is a book about, yeah, so if you click on, see the word sign, this is like the engraved copy that he takes with him.

• 3:55Speaker 02

  Oh, wow.

• 3:57Ryan Holiday?

  But that book's amazing.

• 3:58Speaker 02

  Wicked River, The Mississippi When It Last Ryan Wild.

• 4:03Ryan Holiday?

  The Mississippi is fucking crazy. I have more, I have even more. Can I keep going?

• 4:06Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 4:07Ryan Holiday?

  All right. I know your daughters are into sports, so this is a book I give to every college coach that I talk to. It's about this, she's one of the great cross-country runners of her generation. She commits suicide, she runs off a parking garage.

• 4:19Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 4:20Ryan Holiday?

  And so it's about mental health and pressure and the, I think it's any person who has a kid who is good at sports and wants to make something of it. And Kate Fagin's an incredible writer, should read that book. It's like a cautionary sort of warning, and about what social media does to kids. Actually, I did this book with Chris Bosh, he lives here, you might like that. And then, all right, last, I have two, two more.

• 4:49Ryan Holiday?

  This is the best history of Texas. It's fucking epic. The best history of Texas. You have, if you, if you-

• 4:56Speaker 02

  The fuck is this, Rick?

• 4:57Ryan Holiday?

  I would listen to it. You could listen to that one. But seriously, it is also incredible.

• 5:01Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 5:02Ryan Holiday?

  And then, all right, last one. This is my favorite translation of Meditations. I don't know if this is the one you read, but I would read this.

• 5:11Ryan Holiday?

  And then, I know you like Stephen Pressfield. This is the first edition-

• 5:15Speaker 02

  Jesus Christ, dude.

• 5:16Ryan Holiday?

  -of The War of Art that he signed.

• 5:17Speaker 02

  Wow, all right.

• 5:18Ryan Holiday?

  I read that book every time I start a project.

• 5:22Speaker 02

  It's a great book.

• 5:22Ryan Holiday?

  Dude, it's one of the great, The Resistance? It's, it-

• 5:25Speaker 02

  It's so perfectly outlined, like the way-

• 5:28Ryan Holiday?

  That's what, that's what it is. That's what you're at war with in everything.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  Thank you very much, Ryan.

• 5:33Ryan Holiday?

  I read a lot. It's sort of my job. You can't write without reading. But for almost 15 years now, once a month, I send out an email with my favorite book recommendations for that month. Books that I've been reading, books that I've been going through, books that changed my life, that inspired me, that I can connect to what's happening in the world. And you can sign up right now at ryanholiday.net/readinglist.