“I had read about a lot about World War II, Russian war memoirs, you know, all this I had read and really was impacted by the Gulag archipelago.”
Why: It impacted his spiritual path and taught him that happiness cannot be the ultimate goal in life; one must have purpose.
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Guest on The Tim Ferriss Show#853: Jordan Jonas, Champion of Alone — The Art of Survival, Lessons from Nomadic Tribes, Hardship as the Path to Peace, How to Handle Rogue Wolverines, and Why Not to Photograph Attacking Bears