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

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1:26I brought you 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 story 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. I don't like him. No, I think you will see him in a different way.

1:52Okay. 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 I've ever written because I've heard from so many people. And then, have you read Shadow Divers? No. It's about these guys diving. It's 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 like diving and discovering something and the mastery of this thing that could kill you at any moment.

2:29Have 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. Oh, wow. And his real life story is fucking incredible. It's one of the Pulitzer Prize. Speaking of prizes, it definitely deserved to. It's amazing. Wow. All right. River of Doubt. You read this? No. I can't believe how many books you brought. I figure you're going to 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.

3:06But 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. And did you ever go to his birthplace in New York City? No. Next time you go, you can go to the house that he grew up in. They maintain it? Yeah, it's still there. How big is it? It's just like a townhouse in New York City. Oh, wow. And you can see the gym where he worked out his asthma and became like the dude that he became.

3:48But if you look up, he took a copy of Epictetus with him that he wrote as he was near death. 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. 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. Wow. 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. Oh, wow. But that book's amazing. Wicked River, the Mississippi when it last ran wild.

4:34The Mississippi is fucking crazy. I have more. I have even more. Can I keep going? Okay. 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. 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 Fagan's an incredible writer, should read that book. It's like a cautionary sort of warning. And about what social media does to kids.

5:12Actually, I did this book with Chris Bosh. He lives here. You might like that. And then... All right, last. I have two more. This is The Best History of Texas. It's fucking epic. The Best History of Texas. this you have if if you if you I would listen to it you could listen to that one but seriously it is also incredible okay 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 and then I know you like uh Steven Pressfield this is the first edition of the war of art that he signed wow all right that I read that book every time I start a project.

5:53It's a great book. Dude, it's one of the great, the resistance. It's so perfectly outlined. That's what it is. That's what you're at war with in everything. Thank you very much, Ryan. 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 think connect to what's happening in the world. And you could sign up right now at ryanholiday.net slash reading list.

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