Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2019-08-16
Books mentioned on #382: Safi Bahcall — On Hypnosis, Conquering Insomnia, Incentives, and More
Safi Bahcall (@SafiBahcall) is the author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, which debuted #3 on Wall Street Journal’s bestseller list.
Tim Ferriss recommended How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie and others and Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie is a practical self-help guide offering actionable strategies to overcome chronic worry and anxiety.
Recommended“there's also a book with a very clear but somewhat cheesy sounding title which is how to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie which I've also found to be very helpful”
Where to get it
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Radical Acceptance
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach is a widely praised self-help and psychology book that integrates Buddhist mindfulness teachings with Western psychotherapy to help readers overcome self-doubt, shame, and emotional suffering.
Recommended“but to others I want to mention one is radical acceptance by Tara brach which as the title might indicate is cut from the same cloth as a lot of what we're talking about it's very well written and Tara has been on the podcast and we've spoken about some of the content of the book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“my real motivation is I have a phrase that I keep in mind when I started I got connected to a guy an author named Richard Preston who wrote if you brought the hot zone which was this huge bestseller and then a number of other great books as a New Yorker writer and we were talking I was really”
“although there's a book called spark that looks at brain derived neurotrophic factor and all sorts of things that are related to exercise weightlifting resistance exercise can provoke very similar beneficial responses and actually adaptations over time”