Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2024-05-21
Books mentioned on #739: Brené Brown and Edward O. Thorp
This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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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“which is a quote that I want to say Tera Brock the well-known meditation teacher also writer radical acceptance is a fantastic book shared with me which I'm going to paraphrase”
Where to get it
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Beat the Market
Beat the Market by Edward O.
Discussed“and so that became the book beat the market”
Where to get it
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores the dual systems of the human mind that drive how people think, make choices, and commit cognitive errors.
Discussed“it ties into a famous book Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Conan”
Where to get it
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The Wolf at the Door
Michael J.
Recommended“he has a book called the wolf at the door which is fairly recent which basically explains the things that I learned in his political science course a few months ago and it tells you how to form coalitions that can win and how to pass things that will stay in place”
Where to get it
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio is an economic and historical analysis that examines the rise and fall of major empires through long-term cycles of debt, economic shifts, and geopolitical power.
Recommended“and one of your previous interviewees Ray Delio has a book that I would I think is very well worth reading even though it's a tough slog and maybe i' Chang the writing a bit but you know it's it's a real contribution to thinking about the crisis that we're going through now”
Where to get it
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The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman's The Man Who Solved the Market chronicles the extraordinary life of Jim Simons and the groundbreaking quantitative strategies of Renaissance Technologies.
Recommended“for people who want to read more about Jim Simons there's a book called the man who solved to the market which is a good read”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I actually recommended ag1 in my 2010 best seller more than a decade ago the 4-Hour Body and I did not get paid to do so I simply loved the product and felt like it was the ultimate nutritionally dense supplement that you could use conveniently while on the run which is for me a lot of the time”
“and now Edward o Thorp legendary blackjack player hedge fund manager and mathematics professor and author of beat the dealer and a man for all markets from Las Vegas to Wall Street”
“and now Edward o Thorp legendary blackjack player hedge fund manager and mathematics professor and author of beat the dealer and a man for all markets from Las Vegas to Wall Street”
“I'll tell you one story that you probably read my book it's about Joseph heler and Kurt vonet please Joseph how wrote his famous book C 22 of which they made a movie way back maybe 50 years ago”