Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-03-12
Books mentioned on Making Decisions, Achieving Excellence & Finding Meaning - Derek Sivers - #150
Derek Sivers is a writer, entrepreneur & musician. Derek's episodes on The Tim Ferriss Show are some of my all time favourites so I was super excited to speak to him.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sum
Sum by David Eagleman is a work of imaginative speculative fiction that explores forty alternative afterlives, challenging readers to rethink the meaning of existence and human consciousness.
Recommended“and if you have read the book by David Eagleman called some s um it's it's an homage to that book sum is probably my single favorite book”
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The Courage to Be Disliked
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga outlines Adlerian psychology principles to help readers overcome self-doubt, societal pressures, and the need for external validation.
Recommended“I really like this I heard this idea in a book called um the courage to be disliked which was also really probably one of the best things I've ever read”
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book How to Live
“I was working maniacally on my next book which is called how to live which I'm so seriously doing like 15 hour days of writing”
Own book How to Live
“and so my book how to live is an homage to some it's using that exact same format to answer the question how to live”
Own book Hell Yeah Or No
“which is kind of what my next book called hell yeah or no is about”
Own book Anything You Want
“my first big book called anything you want was published by well first by Seth Godin but then he sold his little publishing imprint to penguin”