Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2024-08-29

Steven Bartlett & Andrew Huberman: books mentioned on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett (Aug 2024)

Andrew Huberman: You Must Control Your Dopamine! The Shocking Truth About Cold Showers!

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Your brain shapes your reality, and your reality shapes your life. World famous neuroscientist Andrew Huberman gives you the brain hacks to take control of your reality and life.

Andrew Huberman recommended Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke and Loose change by Sara Davidson, and discussed Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others and Do the Distance by Jim Thiebaud.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Zero to One

    Peter Thiel; Blake Masters · at 1:05:35

    Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters is a prominent business and technology book that argues true progress comes from building entirely new things rather than copying existing models.

    Discussed
    “you know, like Peter Thiel's book Zero to One, as I recall, defines competition as anti-creativity in many ways because you through competition, you are by definition changing what you're doing in order to outdo somebody else or something else.”
    Where to get it
  2. Dopamine Nation

    Anna Lembke · at 1:14:24 · mentioned 2 times

    Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke is a contemporary exploration of how modern overabundance and hyper-palatable digital stimuli hijack human reward pathways, offering practical clinical strategies to restore balance.

    Recommended
    “Yeah, so my colleague at Stanford, Dr. Anna Lembke, who runs our dual diagnosis addiction clinic and wrote the wonderful book Dopamine Nation, described this best.”
    Where to get it
  3. Loose change

    Sara Davidson · at 3:46:25

    Loose Change by Sara Davidson captures personal and cultural transitions, though the title has also famously been associated with alternate investigative media and artistic works.

    Recommended
    “He had these poetry books. Great book. I still have it. It's called Loose Change.”
    Where to get it
  4. Do the Distance

    Jim Thiebaud · at 3:46:27

    Do the Distance by Jim Thiebaud is a collection of direct, hardcore poetry capturing intense personal experiences and emotional resilience.

    Discussed
    “And he had another one called Do the Distance.”
    Where to get it
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Plugged Protocols
“I hear that there's a book coming out called Protocols an operation an operating manual for the human body which comes out next year in the 22nd of April 2025.”