Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-07-22
Joe Rogan & Shaka Senghor: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #2353
#2353 - Shaka Senghor
Shaka Senghor served 19 years in prison for murder. Today he is a writer, entrepreneur, and resilience expert.
Shaka Senghor discussed Invictus by William Ernest Henley, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, Black Gangster by Donald Goines, and What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Invictus
William Ernest Henley's classic 19th-century poem Invictus stands as a stirring declaration of personal courage and defiance in the face of overwhelming adversity, famously closing with the assertion that one is the master of their fate and the captain of their soul.
Discussed“I would read uh the poem Invictus. Like that poem always just kind of brought me back like you're the master of your own fate. You know what I'm saying? You're the you're the captain of your soul.”
Where to get it
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As a Man Thinketh
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen is a classic self-development text focused on the power of thought in shaping personal reality and character.
Discussed“There's a book called As a Man Think of by James Allen. It's about 60s something pages. I would literally my my my version of that was so dog here, but I would like literally just open it up and any page was about if you master your thinking, you can master your environment.”
Where to get it
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Black Gangster
Discussed“So he had these all these street books like Dope Fiend and you know uh Black Gangster and it was like all this kind of underbelly uh Iceberg Slim Pimp all these stories were stories I had read early on and these guys they were like me like Donald Go served time in prison.”
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What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz's What You Do Is Who You Are outlines practical strategies for building and maintaining strong business cultures by drawing on unexpected historical and modern examples.
Discussed“And Ben actually wrote this book called What You Do is Who You Are. And in the book, he talked about some of our conversations around culture. And it kind of gave them a framework to really understand how these lessons I learned in prison could really be applied in corporate.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
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