Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-06-27
Books mentioned on How To Work Out What You Want To Want From Life - Kyle Eschenroeder - #189
Kyle Eschenroeder is a marketer and a writer. You do not want to live a life that you regret at the end of it.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Self-reliance
Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a foundational 1841 transcendentalist essay that urges individuals to trust their own inner voice, reject societal conformity, and embrace authentic personal conviction.
Discussed“Ralph Waldo Emerson in in Self-Reliance has this line, "My life is for itself and not a spectacle."”
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Zero to One
Zero to One by Peter A.
Discussed“And Thiel in his book Zero to One, he talks about how um kind of realizing this helped him switch tracks from uh uh a legal career that he was, you know, getting really far into and and had an incredible outlook um and and switching into tech, which which made his life a lot a lot better.”
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Swann's Way
Discussed“And I think there's this there's a really beautiful It's a two-sentence quote uh from Proust from Swann's Way that gets into, I think, the nuance of why desiring, you know, uh our defaults can be dangerous.”
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The Path of Least Resistance
Discussed“Robert Fritz talks about this really beautifully in his book called The Path of Least Resistance.”
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Essentialism
Essentialism by Greg McKeown is a self-help and personal development book that advocates for disciplined pursuit, urging readers to focus on the vital few things rather than getting overwhelmed by the trivial many.
Discussed“I was talking to Greg McKeown, guy that wrote Essentialism, and he said he was working with some huge tech execs from Silicon Valley, and this guy who'd made it to the top of the corporate ladder was very successful, basically said, that his relationship with his son was breaking down.”
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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You (and How to Get Good at it)
The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal is a compelling psychological exploration that challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that stress can be beneficial if perceived and channeled correctly.
Discussed“Kelly McGonigal actually has she she has a ton of great examples in her book The Upside of Stress.”
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Man S Search For Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Emil Frankl is a profound psychological memoir and analysis detailing the author's survival in Nazi concentration camps and his formulation of logotherapy.
Discussed“And there's Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, actually considers suffering suffering well to be one of only three sources of meaning in life.”
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Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek is a classic philosophical novel by Nikos Kazantzakis that tells the story of a young Greek intellectual whose life is transformed by an exuberant, earthy working man.
Discussed“And I stole that from this novel Zorba the Greek.”
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A Little Book on the Human Shadow
Discussed“So, uh Robert Bly offers a really practical example of this in his book um A Little Book of the Human Shadow.”
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