Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-04-17
Books mentioned on #277 – Andrew Huberman: Focus, Stress, Relationships, and Friendship
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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On the Move
On the Move by Oliver Sacks is a memoir by the renowned neurologist and writer that chronicles his eventful life, career, and intellectual development.
Discussed“He has a great biography called 'On the Move,' and there's a wonderful documentary that just came out about him—he died in 2015. I'm actually kind of a collector of his things.”
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Projections
Karl Deisseroth's acclaimed exploration of the human mind combines rigorous neuroscience with profound storytelling to examine the biological basis of emotion and psychiatric illness.
Recommended“actually uh Carl daero gu daero he he wrote the book projections one of my favorite first of all just as you said incredible writer”
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel that chronicles the harrowing experiences and profound disillusionment of young German soldiers on the front lines of World War I.
Discussed“remember that book um All Quiet on the Western Front by World War I there's this line in there I forget what it is about how war is like the smell of a skunk”
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Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel depicting the brutal physical and psychological realities experienced by young German soldiers during World War I.
Discussed“Do you remember the book 'All Quiet on the Western Front' from World War I? There's a line that compares war to the smell of a skunk—from there’s an almost delicious quality in experiencing it.”
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Observing the erotic imagination
Discussed“There's a book called 'The Erotic Imagination.' It's a very psychoanalytic book written by a psychoanalyst that talks about—well, here's the uncomfortable reality: Freud was at least right about one thing, which is that the brain circuitry that you use to develop attachments to your caregivers, mother and father, or other caregivers do not disappear when you hit puberty.”
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Can Love Last?
Can Love Last? by Stephen A.
Recommended“And so this book's name is kind of corny, but it's written by an analyst, again, it's called 'Can Love Last?' It's a book about how really good strong relationships are the consequence of people constantly moving through this dependency-objectification dynamic.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“like the little version of me when I was six or seven I used to spend all weekend reading the encyclopedia Guinness Book of World Records”