The Sirens’ Call

Stoic Lessons From The Odyssey w/ Ryan Holiday

The Rich Roll Podcast, 3 August 2026. The book comes up at 36 min 42 sec in.

The speaker calls Chris Hayes's book "a really good book" and describes it as comparing social media and the attention economy to the sirens of the Odyssey. The speaker highlights Hayes's argument that the sirens are not merely seductive but implicate the audience in their own manipulation through confirmation bias, and connects this to how people willingly destroy themselves to access what the sirens offer.

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