Is There More of That?

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i think it's an indictment of a lot of academia that there are not more philosophy professors like geordan petersons. i write about philosophy for a very large audience, and it's all i think about. And i literally could not name one profet, like, one philosophy professor. I he was a long formd thinker. We don't have long for im thinking. But we have this typographical culture which creates this simplistic world in which everything is either right or wrong. Nthen youhave to throw in the very alternative. There's this dialectical collision, intellectual roots grow deep since the ancient greeks. You can only show people what they're wrong with by showing...

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

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