Episode · My First Million · 2026-09-18
Books mentioned on Coach for SpaceX & OpenAI destroys your limiting beliefs for 88 minutes straight
Get Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your life coach: https://clickhubspot.com/edlv Episode 863: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) get coached by Joe Hudson ( https://x.com/FU_joehudson ) on the mental game of being a founder.
Shaan Puri recommended The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey, and discussed How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk. Joe Hudson recommended Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio and Listen by Patty Wipfler and others, and discussed The Tibetan book of living and dying by Sogyal Rinpoche and Dying by Martin Shepard.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Discussed“So that's one of these things where you read a book like how to win friends and influence people and you're like duh that's obvious and it almost becomes a reminder and yet I'm like but how do you tactically make that switch where you say enjoy the relationships not seeking the outcome?”
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The Tibetan book of living and dying
Discussed“The samurai use this the I mean so many traditions use this which is visualizing their own death and they Tibetan book of living and dying samurai and then also what was it is like the Marcus Aurelius.”
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Dying
Discussed“The samurai use this the I mean so many traditions use this which is visualizing their own death and they Tibetan book of living and dying samurai and then also what was it is like the Marcus Aurelius.”
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Recommended“the inner game of tennis talks a lot about that. Great book.”
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Descartes' Error
Recommended“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Deart's Error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something.”
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The Body Keeps the Score
Discussed“I've read The Body Keeps the Score and I like intuitively know that like trauma is a physical thing, but like to put it on a really practical level, you ever get like a slack or an email from a co-orker that says, 'Can we talk?'”
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Listen
Recommended“I there was this thing called handin-hand parenting which I highly recommend a book called listen which is like one of the most profound practices in my life and that was really where the big emotional understanding started coming in that that like oh I can be with my children in these big emotions and all they need to do”
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