Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2022-12-30
Books mentioned on #647: Mark Manson — The Path to 'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck,' The Ups (and Downs) of Success, The Craft of Writing, Personal Reinvention, How to Build a Lean Team, Protecting Boundaries, Decompressing with Fiction, and More
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Mark Manson recommended All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, and discussed The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, Will by Will Smith, and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. Tim Ferriss recommended Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman and This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition) by Amal El-Mohtar and others, and discussed The Game by Neil Strauss, I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max, and Letters from a Stoic.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a highly influential lifestyle design manual that challenges conventional career paths and encourages readers to automate, delegate, and escape the traditional nine-to-five grind.
Discussed“It was around that time I discovered The 4-Hour Workweek. I think it had just come out or been out for a year or something.”
Where to get it
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The Game
The Game by Neil Strauss is a non-fiction book that explores the secretive underworld of pickup artistry and social dynamics.
Discussed“In 2005, I want to say, The Game by Neil Strauss came out, somewhere around there.”
Where to get it
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max is a notorious, boundary-pushing comedic memoir that chronicles the author's wild partying exploits and helped popularize the controversial fratire genre.
Discussed“Then, I want to say it was in that same range, 2005, 2006 that I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell came out by Tucker Max.”
Where to get it
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Will
Will is a candid memoir by Will Smith, co-authored with Mark Manson, detailing the actor's rise to fame and the internal psychological struggles that accompanied his massive success.
Discussed“I co-authored Will Smith's memoir, which came out last year. It's called Will.”
Where to get it
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Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is a time-management guide that embraces human finitude and challenges conventional productivity culture.
Recommended“That would be, I believe it's Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, which I thought was a fantastic book and there are a number of chapters that really stuck out as counterintuitively helpful, such as cosmic insignificance therapy, which I ended up excerpting on the blog because I wanted to share it with people and share the book with people.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca is a collection of moral epistles written by the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger to his friend Lucilius, offering enduring practical guidance on virtue, resilience, and emotional control.
Discussed“some of the Stoic writings, probably The Moral Letters to Lucilius by Seneca, which is commonly sold through, I think, Penguin classics as Letters from a Stoic.”
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Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand's bestselling biography Unbroken tells the extraordinary World War II story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who survived a plane crash, weeks adrift on a raft, and brutal captivity in Japanese prison camps.
Discussed“I read Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand about World War II, incredible story.”
Where to get it
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel that intertwines the lives of a blind French girl and a German boy during World War II.
Recommended“All the Light You Cannot See was fantastic.”
Where to get it
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This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition)
This Is How You Lose the Time War (Deluxe Edition) is a science fiction novel by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone that follows two rival agents writing clandestine letters across time.
Recommended“there is a book called This Is How You Lose the Time War and part of what makes it so cool is that it was written by two people who alternated chapters as they went along, but it is entirely cohesive.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Then there's another, which I suspect I will find interesting, which is called Die With Zero, which is by, I believe Bill Perkins.”