Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2026-04-07
Tim Ferriss & Michelle Khare: books mentioned on The Tim Ferriss Show #860
#860: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life
Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme in Challenge Accepted, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion views.
Tim Ferriss recommended The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs and Levels of the Game by John McPhee, and discussed Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott and Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono. Michelle Khare recommended The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and Originals by Adam Grant, and discussed The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Year of Living Biblically
Recommended“The year of living biblically I think is an amazing amazing book. I met him a couple months ago and I said you need to do that again and make it a YouTube video.”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Recommended“reading the 4-hour work week changed my life. This is the original copy I have from 2016.”
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Levels of the Game
Recommended“If you want to read something short, Levels of the Game is incredible. He's won one or two Peele surprises. Just a phenomenal writer, can make anything interesting.”
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Radical Candor
Discussed“Radical Cander by Kim Scott and The Six Thinking Hats by Edward Dabono. Do either of these ring a bell?”
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Six Thinking Hats
Discussed“Radical Cander by Kim Scott and The Six Thinking Hats by Edward Dabono. Do either of these ring a bell?”
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
Discussed“So, we have a giant spreadsheet called the Areas of Responsibility Chart, which I learned from a book called The Great CEO Within.”
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Originals
Recommended“And then I've given Adam Grant's originals to a few people, too.”
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Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“The first was the 4-hour chef, which was basically just a suicide mission of a deadline. Book that should have taken three years was done in a year and that's just physically effectively impossible.”
“And the biggest difference, I'd say the absolute biggest difference between the 4-hour chef and the books that came before it, the 4-hour work week and the 4-hour body, is that in the case of the 4-hour body, I did all of the experiments, then digested it all, combed through everything, and compiled the book.”
“And the biggest difference, I'd say the absolute biggest difference between the 4-hour chef and the books that came before it, the 4-hour work week and the 4-hour body, is that in the case of the 4-hour body, I did all of the experiments, then digested it all, combed through everything, and compiled the book.”
“Jack Canfield who co-created Chicken Soup for the Soul which has sold hundreds and hundreds of millions of copies and then they ultimately sold as a franchise.”