Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2025-09-29
Books mentioned on Atheist vs Christian vs Spiritual Thinker: Is Not Believing In God Causing More Harm Than Good?!
Steven Bartlett recommended Visions of Reality by Greg Nyquist. Also mentioned: Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel, Fox's book of martyrs by John Foxe and others, The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, and The doors of perception by Aldous Huxley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mind and Cosmos
Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel is a concise philosophical work by a prominent non-religious thinker that challenges the fundamental limits, assumptions, and problems of a strictly materialist framework on the world.
Discussed“Thomas Nagel wrote his book Mind and the Cosmos. You're familiar with this, I'm sure. You know, why the neo-Darwinian materialistic view of the world is almost certainly false.”
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Fox's book of martyrs
John Foxe documents the harrowing histories and suffering of Christian martyrs through the centuries in Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Recommended“Even people who are suffering terribly as Christians in persecution, read Fox's Book of Martyrs Book of Martyrs, still have this strong sense of value, of purpose, and security, even so.”
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The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is a prominent philosophical essay examining the absurdist condition, human suffering, and the search for meaning in a seemingly indifferent universe.
Discussed“And he writes this this short treatise called The Myth of Sisyphus, based on an actual ancient myth of Sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods as punishment to roll a boulder up a hill, and when it gets to the top, it rolls back down again, and he goes back down, and he pushes the boulder up to the”
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The doors of perception
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is a classic philosophical essay chronicling the author's psychedelic experiences and exploring the nature of human consciousness.
Recommended“Aldous Huxley writes in the in the Doors of Perception, essential reading to anybody interested in consciousness, by the way.”
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Visions of Reality
Visions of Reality by Greg Nyquist is a philosophical examination aimed at helping readers unpack complex worldview questions and discern truth in their everyday lives.
Recommended“There's actually one here, which is what you ended on called The Story of Reality, which I think is a great starting place for people that are trying to tease out some of the the truth in their own life.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Now I I wrote a piece called The Story of Reality, a book that's meant to characterize that in fairly clear terms and more general terms.”
“In my second book, The Diary of a CEO: 33 Laws of Business and Life, one of the laws I talk about is always prioritizing your first foundation.”