Episode · No Stupid Questions · 2021-01-31
Books mentioned on How Do You Know if People Don’t Like You? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 37
Angela Duckworth recommended Feeling Good by David D. Burns, and discussed The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and others. Stephen Dubner discussed Self-help by Samuel Smiles. Also mentioned: The Best of Red Smith by Red Smith, Ring Lardner by Donald Elder and others, My Brother, Ernest Hemingway by Leicester Hemingway, and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Millionaire Next Door
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J.
Discussed“I hate to say I think you're just converting me on the spot here because I do think about some of the things that I've learned from actual self-help books including the Millionaire Next Door I have not read The Millionaire Next Door so one of my brothers gave that to me when I was in my mid late 20s”
Where to get it
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The Best of Red Smith
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
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Ring Lardner
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
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My Brother, Ernest Hemingway
Discussed“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”
Where to get it
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Feeling Good
Feeling Good by David D.
Recommended“one of the best-selling books 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”
Where to get it
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Self-help
Discussed“do you know the book self-help which I believe was the origin of the phrase have you ever come across that book by Samuel's Smiles like literally called self-help”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie is a classic self-help manual focused on interpersonal communication, relationship building, and effective social influence.
Discussed“later Angela refers to Dale Carnegie's 1936 book How to Win Friends and Influence People but mistakenly refers to it as how to make friends and influence people”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (14) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“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”
Plugged Think Like a Freak
“you did write a self-help book Think Like a Freak yeah the third Freakonomics book we wrote was our attempt at a self-help book called Think Like a Freak”
Passing Freakonomics
“so by then we had two books for economics and super Freakonomics and we'd started Freakonomics radio”
Passing Superfreakonomics
“so by then we had two books for economics and super Freakonomics and we'd started Freakonomics radio”
Plugged Think Like a Freak
“what if we could write a kind of guidebook to how we do our thinking and our data collection and our analysis and our storytelling and so yeah if we did sort of write a self-help book”
Passing Holy Bible (NIV)
“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”
Passing Meditations
“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”
“and maybe to snob in you would feel better reading meditations or reading the essays of Michelle de montane then reading Dale Carnegie”
Passing The French Revolution
“I came across the story of how Carlisle had written a book about the French Revolution called the French Revolution”
Passing The Little Engine That Could
“look if you think about children's books these little Parables right like The Little Engine That Could”
Passing Frog and Toad Treasury
“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”
Passing Autumn with Frog and Toad
“or my favorite books were Frog and Toad and they are always something with a message”
Passing The French Revolution
“Carlisle said that the second version of the book the one that he ultimately published and inspired Samuel Smiles self-help came quote direct and flamingly from the heart”
“Angela appropriately enough confuses the work with another best-selling self-help book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People which was written by author and businessman Stephen Covey”