Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2024-07-17
Books mentioned on #755: Hugh Jackman and Esther Perel
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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This Is Water
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace is a famous commencement speech delivered at Kenyon College in 2005 that was later published as a short book, offering philosophical reflections on awareness, empathy, and the meaning of daily life.
Recommended“one is eie wh's here is New York and the other one is David Foster Wallace's speech this is water his commencement speech”
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The Overstory
The Overstory by Richard Powers is a sweeping, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that intertwines the lives of several Americans whose fates are connected to trees and environmental activism.
Recommended“and in terms of fiction and this completely breaks that Ro Tim because this is a long book but I was gifted actually uh by Gary Hart Senator Gary Hart who I played in a movie the over Story by Richard Powers”
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The 4-Hour Body
The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss is a comprehensive practical guide exploring rapid physical transformation, health optimization, and fitness experiments.
Discussed“and I learned a lot of this from your book and I worked at a gym by the way the 4H hour body”
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The Truce
The Truce by Primo Levi is a powerful autobiographical sequel that chronicles the author's long, meandering, and physically challenging journey back to Italy following his liberation from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Discussed“and there's a book called if this is a man and there's another book called The truce both are written by Primo Levy which was recommended to Me by The Illusionist David Blaine”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Recommended“or the book I've probably gifted the most is Victor Frankle the search for meaning”
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The Erotic Mind
The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin is a profound psychological exploration of human sexuality, desire, and the intricate formulas that govern passion and attraction within intimate relationships.
Discussed“I reread the erotic mind by Jack Moren”
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is a foundational nineteenth-century realist novel detailing the tragic life of a country doctor's wife who engages in extra-marital affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities of provincial life.
Critiqued“I reread for this book I reread Madame bvari which was very disappointing”
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological masterpiece that explores the crushing guilt, moral torment, and eventual redemption of a destitute former student who commits a brutal murder in St.
Discussed“how I'll tell you what I reread that I L because one of my kids was reading it in school Crime and Punishment yeah no you can rad the Russians that that we just I don't they they are”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and I organized it when I was actually writing mating my first book meting in captivity at at the time”
“so mating in captivity for me was really a conversation on that very question that you just asked”
“so the book is the State of Affairs rethinking infidelity”