Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-07-11
Books mentioned on Birth Order: So nice, we did it twice
This is a very special episode, the first one we've ever fully recorded a second time and decided to release. Why?
Josh Clark discussed English men of science: their nature and nurture by Sir Francis Galton. Also mentioned: Birth Order by Cecile Ernst and others, Born to Rebel by Frank J. Sulloway, and Creative Personality: A Companion-Book for the Study and Growth of the Self by Frank Channing Haddock.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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English men of science: their nature and nurture
Sir Francis Galton published English men of science: their nature and nurture in 1874 to investigate the intellectual origins, backgrounds, and traits of British scientists.
Discussed“and he had a book called English men of science um kind of sounds like Real Men of Genius I was gonna say it was adapted into a series of Bud Light commercials lately yeah that's what it seems like uh colon of course their nature and nurture in which he he basically was kind of keen to investigate the”
Where to get it
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Birth Order
Discussed“and we're going to write our own book called birth order Colon it's poo poo Yeah uh actually his birth order its influence on personality and they went back and looked at all these studies like 1500 studies from the mid 40s to 1980”
Where to get it
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Born to Rebel
Born to Rebel by Frank J.
Discussed“and he ended up writing a book in 1996 called Born to Rebel colon birth order family Dynamics and creative lives and he did his own meta-analysis of all of these studies that are out there”
Where to get it
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Creative Personality: A Companion-Book for the Study and Growth of the Self
Discussed“and he ended up writing a book in 1996 called Born to Rebel colon birth order family Dynamics and creative lives and he did his own meta-analysis of all of these studies that are out there”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Born to Rebel
“so um born to Rebel -- was a rebel I've been wanting to say that the whole time okay um it should be e-l-l-e really if you think about it”