📚 15 Books mentioned in "How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 37" of No Stupid Questions

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Episode: How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 37

Published on January 19, 2023

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Autumn with Frog and Toad

by Arnold Lobel

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or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message

Angela mentions this children's book series as her favorite, noting its messages.

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Dale Carnegie for Children (Abridged and adapted)

by Dale Carnegie

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and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie

Stephen mentions reading Dale Carnegie (implicitly his famous book) in the context of self-help literature.

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Feeling Good

by David D. Burns

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if you're feeling depressed or anxious and you don't have a cognitive behavioral therapist that you can go to one-on-one you could buy Feeling Good by David Burns

Angela mentions this book as a resource for those seeking help with depression or anxiety.

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Freakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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I do so by then we had two books for economics and super Freakonomics and we'd started Freakonomics radio

Stephen mentions this as one of the books he wrote with Steven Levitt.

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Frog and Toad Treasury

by Arnold Lobel

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or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message

Angela mentions this children's book series as her favorite, noting its messages.

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Holy Bible (NIV)

by Various Authors,

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I mean the sociologist Mickey McGee has written about the idea that the Bible is one of the first and perhaps the most significant self-help book in history

Angela discusses the idea that the Bible could be considered an early self-help book.

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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but when I think of the standard self-help book like how to get rich get skinny live long whatever how to make friends and influence people there's the classic I know you like that one a lot

Angela mentions this book as a classic example of the self-help genre.

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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and then of course there were plenty of what you might call self-help treatises during Greek and Roman times yeah Marcus Aurelius right this goes all the way back and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie

Stephen mentions reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius in the context of historical self-help treatises.

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My Brother, Ernest Hemingway

by Leicester Hemingway

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and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale

Stephen mentions reading biographies about Hemingway as influential for his writing, viewing them as a cautionary tale.

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Ring Lardner

by Donald Elder, Ring Lardner

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and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale

Stephen mentions reading biographies about Ring Lardner as influential for his writing.

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The Best of Red Smith

by Red Smith

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and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale

Stephen mentions reading biographies about Red Smith as influential for his writing.

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The French Revolution

by Thomas Carlyle

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I was reading a lot of Carlisle and about him for something I was writing once long ago and I came across the story of how Carlisle had written a book about the French Revolution called the French Revolution

Stephen recounts the story of Thomas Carlyle writing this book and losing the manuscript.

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The Little Engine That Could

by Watty Piper

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look if you think about children's books these little Parables right like The Little Engine That Could

Angela uses this children's book as an example of a story with a message.

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The Millionaire Next Door

by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

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because I do think about some of the things that I've learned from actual self-help books including the Millionaire Next Door

Stephen mentions this book as one he read and found helpful.

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Think Like a Freak

by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

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you did write a self-help book Think Like a Freak

Angela identifies one of Stephen's books as a self-help book.

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