Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-10-19
Books mentioned on #629: Aryeh Bourkoff — Media's Hottest Dealmaker on How to Negotiate, Rejecting Constraints, Mastering the Calendar to Create More Time, and How to Play the Long Game
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Leadership
Leadership is a comprehensive academic and practical text by Peter Guy Northouse that examines the core theories, dynamics, and styles of effective leadership.
Recommended“So I would say the timeless books are, one we'll call Leadership and Self-Deception. It's really a book about self-awareness that we really handed out to the firm, and it's a book about really just owning your own decisions.”
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Scale
Scale by Geoffrey West is a scientific exploration of the universal laws governing growth, organization, and lifespan in biology, cities, and corporations.
Recommended“The other two timeless books are a book called Scale by Geoffrey West that is all about why some things last minutes.”
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Scarcity
Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir examines the profound psychological and cognitive impacts of having too little, whether of money or time, and how scarcity captures human attention and diminishes mental bandwidth.
Recommended“The third one is a book called Scarcity. I think we're moving from a period of abundance to scarcity.”
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The Pearl
The Pearl by John Steinbeck is a dark and compelling parable that examines the corrupting nature of wealth and greed through the story of a poor Mexican pearl diver who finds a magnificent gem that ultimately brings misfortune to his family.
Recommended“John Steinbeck, The Pearl, a recommendation of a friend of mine who's in the business. I reread the other day, great book.”
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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a classic Lost Generation novel chronicling the disillusionment, travels, and romantic entanglements of a group of American and British expatriates in Europe.
Recommended“And I love The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway.”
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The Second Mountain
The Second Mountain by David Brooks is a non-fiction work that explores personal growth, moral transitions, and the shift from individual ambition to a life of community commitment and deeper purpose.
Recommended“And then another book I would say is David Brooks' The Second Mountain. It's a really interesting book.”
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Travels with Charley
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck is a classic American travelogue chronicling the author's journey across the United States in a pickup truck accompanied by his standard poodle, Charley.
Recommended“I also love John Steinbeck and I've read pitifully little of his work, but Travels with Charley, if anyone has not read that nonfiction account of him traveling across the United States with his dog, it is absolutely laugh-out-loud hilarious...”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“this came about because of the title of my first book, 4-Hour Workweek, and someone said, "Oh, you should talk to Aryeh because that is probably not going to be a driving philosophy," or something along those lines.”