1258: Ryan Holiday | Wisdom Takes Work

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. You read a lot about America. You spend a lot of time in America. You're like, Americans do this. You know, Americans f<unk>ed this up.

This is the importance of both travel and the study of history, is because you read about Rome and Sparta and Athens and you go, oh, wait, every country does this stuff. Every country is bad. Every country has shameful secrets. Every country has weird, hilarious quirks. Every country has practices that make no sense.

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