{"product_id":"read-to-lead-a-daily-stoic-reading-challenge-2026","title":"Read to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge (2026)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Give yourself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTo be a great reader, it is not enough that you read.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs Epictetus said, “I cannot call somebody ‘hard-working’ knowing only that they read. Even if ‘all night long’ is added, I cannot say it—not until I know the focus of all this energy…” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e you read. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt’s not about reading to impress people or for the mental gymnastics. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt’s not about pouring inputs into your brain. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIt’s about getting better! It’s about filtering what gets into your brain. It’s about finding \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003euseful\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e knowledge, knowledge you can use in your actual life. It’s about putting the information up to the test, examining it, seeing how it applies to your life, asking yourself how you might use it, what it’s prompting you to think.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIf that’s the kind of reader you want to be, the Stoics can show you the way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWe built out their best insights into our \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRead to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan spellcheck=\"true\"\u003eThis challenge will take\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e place across 6 weeks at a pace of \u003cstrong\u003e1 email every 3 days\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan spellcheck=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e(~30,000 words of exclusive content), in which Read To Lead participants will learn:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow to get the most out of your reading\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow to find books with the potential of changing your life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow to think more critically\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow to find time to read\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehow to digest books above your level\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd much more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs a participant in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eRead to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, you’ll not only become a better reader and build a real reading habit, you’ll get to learn from Ryan and the practice that’s made him, as it's been said, “the king of reading as a form of self-improvement.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Far too many good brains have been afflicted by the pointless enthusiasm for useless knowledge.” — Seneca\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMarcus Aurelius’ life was changed by a single book recommendation. In book 1 of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMeditations,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e he thanks his philosophy teacher Rusticus “for introducing me to Epictetus’s lectures—and loaning me his own copy.” Rusticus handed Marcus one book and Marcus read that one book—this changed the arc of history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs for Epictetus—he found freedom from slavery, long before he was legally free. How? In the writings of the Stoics, in the words of Musonius Rufus. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe read his way to freedom, literally and figuratively.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMore recently, there’s the story of someone like Malcolm X. His early life was defined by crime and it was a story that led to a prison cell. But in that cell, Malcolm picked up a book…and then another book…and then another. He would say later,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOr think of someone like Warren Buffett—one of the richest men in the world. Do you know what he traces his fortune back to? His single best investment decision?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e It's a book.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, which he first read at the age of 19. 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