Chapter 38: Ryan Holiday bashes beachy books and builds a balanced base

Thirteen years ago I was surfing online when I stumbled on a blog post called "​How To Read More — A Lot More​" by someone I'd never heard of named Ryan Holiday.

I started reading the post and got sucked in. He had a point! Many great points, actually. And he was young. 26 years old! A 26-year-old young man telling the world to read more books? In an era where most twenty-something men read, uh, none?

I found Ryan to be a breath of fresh air.

I immediately began to copy everything he did!

He launched a ​monthly book club​. I launched a ​monthly book club​! (With his blessing, of course.)

He was talking about reading fifty then a hundred and then hundreds of books a year.

Well, I