![]() ![]() And what about us young, wildly ambitious people who want to follow in their footsteps? We have that hunger, that drive, and desire. The writer Ambrose Bierce, the Civil War veteran and an underrated contemporary of Mark Twain once remarked, “I owe more to my father’s books than to any other educational and directive influence.” Helena, and before that had a traveling library he took on campaigns. Napoleon had a library of some 3,500 books with him at St. Lincoln read everything he could get his hands on (often recording passages he liked on spare boards because he didn’t have paper). Theodore Roosevelt carried a dozen books with him on his perilous exploration of the River of Doubt ( including the Stoics). If there is one thing the great men of history have in common it’s this: books. Editor’s note: This is a guest article from Ryan Holiday. ![]()
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