Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-07-20
Books mentioned on Discover Your Life’s Core Values & Operating Principles - Taylor Pearson - #199
Taylor Pearson is an investor and writer. Your life is highly controlled by your values and principles, even if you haven't written them down, or even know what they are.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Work the system
Discussed“yeah so actually the contradiction is from a business book called work the system but it talks about this like in the context of a company so if you ever worked for a company like usually every company has their like five or six core values and usually they're like terrible and meaningless”
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell is a foundational work of comparative mythology exploring the universal narrative pattern known as the hero's journey.
Discussed“he was a professor i think in like the 70s and 80s but he wrote a book called hero with a thousand faces and then he kind of became well known to vixen he was well known he was kind of the influence on george lucas of the writing of star wars that he had studied all these sort of”
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The Black Swan
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a popular nonfiction book that examines the profound impact of highly improbable, unpredictable rare events and humanity's tendency to concoct flawed retrospective explanations for them.
Discussed“i got this from there's a guy named naseem tuleb who's written a few books probably the most famous is a book called the black swan”
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The War of Art
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield is a classic guide on overcoming creative blocks, conquering internal resistance, and unlocking professional discipline.
Recommended“there's a book called the war of art that i really like about a guy named steve pressfield he's he wrote the legend about a tiger van became a movie about the golfer”
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Why Buddhism is True
Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright is an exploration of evolutionary psychology and Buddhist philosophy that examines how ancient meditative practices align with modern scientific understandings of the mind.
Discussed“and there's this um the partitioned brain approach which is in why buddhism is true by robert wright and he talks about the modular brain”
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Finite and Infinite Games
Finite and Infinite Games by James P.
Recommended“and then i guess my sort of off the wall or our underrated book that i've probably i don't know read four or five times now is finite and infinite games by james p carse”
