Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-12-30
Books mentioned on End Of Year Review: 2021's Lessons, Hacks & Fails - #416
Jonny & Yusef join me to recap our favourite lessons, hacks and stories from 2021.
Chris Williamson recommended The Gap and The Gain by Dr. Benjamin Hardy and others, and discussed Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, and The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. Also mentioned: Essentialism by Greg McKeown, Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana, Superpower mindfulness by Ajahn Brahm, Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond by Ajahn Brahm, and The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Essentialism
Recommended“but um you know the the book recommendation from last year chris essentialism um is a book that i think i'm going to need to read a few times and it covers johnny's lesson there called the negative pilot where you take something that you're doing and you say right i'm going to actively not do that and see what”
Where to get it
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Four Thousand Weeks
Discussed“oliver berkman who wrote 4 000 weeks he says in advance of making goals you need to choose what you're going to fail at”
Where to get it
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Mindfulness in Plain English
Recommended“so for the standard v passenger mindfulness meditation i think mindfulness in plain english is very good for concentration meditation ajahn brahm's book called mindfulness bliss and beyond”
Where to get it
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Superpower mindfulness
Recommended“so for the standard v passenger mindfulness meditation i think mindfulness in plain english is very good for concentration meditation ajahn brahm's book called mindfulness bliss and beyond”
Where to get it
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Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond
Recommended“so for the standard v passenger mindfulness meditation i think mindfulness in plain english is very good for concentration meditation ajahn brahm's book called mindfulness bliss and beyond”
Where to get it
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The Psychology of Money
Discussed“morgan housel has a quote in the psychology of money where he says the number one thing that you need to do to win the game is to stop moving the goal posts further away from you”
Where to get it
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The Gap and The Gain
Recommended“and then quickly straight away benjamin hardy in the gap in the game which is the gap in the game by ben hardy's brand new it's only come out about a month and a half ago it's 160 pages you can read it in a weekend or you can listen to it”
Where to get it
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The Righteous Mind
Discussed“i've not read the righteous mind by jonathan height but he talks about the different moral taste buds and how each of those taste buds touches a different part of our palate and causes us to swing to one side of the spectrum or the other”
Where to get it
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The Happiness Hypothesis
Discussed“so the jonathan hype book that i love is the happiness hypothesis that's the one that i got through this year which was yeah man that's um that's a serious one”
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