Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2025-04-07
Books mentioned on 23 Lessons For Being Kinder To Yourself - Joe Hudson - #925
Joe Hudson is a coach, entrepreneur and a podcast host. Before you try to change the world, make sure your own “bed is made”.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England
Discussed“There's a a cool lesson uh about had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with and then he wrote another book about uh like the history of alcohol and um he basically described alcohol as kind of the perfect drug for the human”
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Trying Not to Try
Trying Not to Try by Edward Slingerland explores the ancient Chinese concept of wu-wei, or effortless action, bridging classical philosophy with modern cognitive science to explain how to achieve peak performance and mental well-being by letting go of overthinking.
Discussed“I had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Future Of Buddhism
“It's the same way that the samurai or the stoics or or uh the debent book of living and dying over death. You just go through the thing and then you're like because what we're avoiding is the emotional experience.”
Passing Call of Duty
“You're supposed to be playing Call of Duty first person, but they're actually playing it third person, right? and they're observing it happen and it's taking them out of the moment”