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8 books recommended · 1 critiqued · 2 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“Read old books that contain principles like The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker would be one that stands out. It's very short. It is very, very tactic and principle dense.”
Why: It is very short, tactic, and principle dense.
The Effective Executive by Peter F Drucker
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“And what I have seen work is a bias towards immediate small actions. What I mean by that is, and Atomic Habits by James Clear does a good job of outlining this.”
Why: It does a good job of outlining how to start with small actions.
Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“They have a book and a program called The Happy Body. And they're in their 60s. They can run up trees and grab kites.”
Why: It is a daily practice that helps achieve great physical fitness with minimal equipment.
The Happy Body by Jerzy Gregorek
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“I read a book called The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. This was recommended to me by Kevin Rose, and it was deliberately to offer me a counterexample.”
Why: It offers a helpful counterexample to his default way of over-engineering life.
The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
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“It's called On Grief and Grieving, Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. It's by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. David Kessler is the author and narrator for the audiobook.”
Why: It has been recommended most by people he knows, loves, and trusts.
On Grief and Grieving by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“the book that I was introduced to is called Hard Times, an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression.”
Why: It is a page-turner that fleshes out the depression into something very real and complex.
Hard Times by Studs Terkel
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“I first read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by someone named Stephen LaBerge, the very, very beginning of high school and became…”
Why: It introduced him to lucid dreaming and helped him practice extra training sessions during his dreams.
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
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“And Ed told me, he's like, hard times is good, but if you like that, working is incredible.”
Why: It provides an incredible look at different professions across the United States.
Working by Studs Terkel
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Books they argue against or name the limits of.
“What are your thoughts on the book Healing Back Pain by John Sarno? So I know this book very well. And I will say to kick off that I have multiple friends who were plagued by low back pain.”
Why: Valuable for some people, but he disagrees with the notion that there are almost no mechanical causes of pain.
Healing Back Pain by John E. Sarno
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Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“what does the four-hour workweek look like in a world of agents? Some of you will be familiar with the first book. 20th anniversary is coming up in April of 2027.”
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
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“Hi, Tim. Do you think the basic principles in the four-hour body still apply to those over 40, over 50, et cetera? Specifically, I'm thinking about slow-carb diet…”
The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
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Named without an opinion attached.
“Do you know how 50 shades of gray started? No. It was fan fiction.”
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
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“There was an entire book written about this called moonwalking with Einstein is startup called mind max…”
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
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“The prisoner was Cervantes, the book Don Quixote.”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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“he wrote the Why We Sleep book and also he's run the Berkeley Sleep Lab…”
Why We Sleep by Matthew P. Walker
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“This is Kurt Vonnegut wrote breakfast of champions and tons of other classics.”
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
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