Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2020-04-09
Books mentioned on #419: Ryan Holiday — How to Use Stoicism to Choose Alive Time Over Dead Time
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a prominent philosophical exploration of high-impact, hard-to-predict rare events and human beings' persistent tendency to find simplistic explanations for them after the fact.
Discussed“For those people who aren't watching the video, you have and I'll read from the bottom up. You've got The Black Swan, you have is it The 48 Laws?”
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The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers is a provocative exploration of power dynamics, drawing on historical examples to illustrate strategies for acquiring and defending influence.
Discussed“you have is it The 48 Laws? Yeah, 48 Laws.”
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Mastery
Mastery by Robert Greene is a profound nonfiction book that explores the paths to true expertise through mentorship, lifelong dedication, and understanding one's unique calling.
Discussed“48 Laws of Power and then Mastery.”
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Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a popular exploration of the massive role that chance, luck, and probability play in human success, finance, and everyday life.
Recommended“So, so you have but The Black Swan perhaps just as much so Fooled by Randomness by N N Taleb, T A L E B.”
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Antifragile
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb explores how certain systems and people actually gain from disorder, shock, and adversity rather than merely surviving them.
Recommended“And then Anti-Fragile?”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I bought this when I was writing The Obstacle Is the Way.”
“So and and so I actually ended up writing about this in the goes the enemy, but I tell the story of of Malcolm X.”