Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2020-06-27
Chris Williamson & Kyle Eschenroeder: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #189
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.
Kyle Eschenroeder discussed Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz, The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You (and How to Get Good at it) by Kelly McGonigal, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, and A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly. Chris Williamson discussed Essentialism by Greg McKeown.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Self-reliance
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
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
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)
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
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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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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