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The First Person to Say NO to Ryan Holiday’s Book Recommendations

Ep. 2733
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After recording their episode for The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan took Pete Holmes on the usual post-interview tour of The Painted Porch. Let’s just say Pete had some thoughts about a few of Ryan’s book picks...


Here is the FULL list of books Ryan recommended to Pete: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/collections/pete-holmes


🎥 Prefer video? You can watch this on Ryan’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RyanHolidayOfficial/videos


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