Episode · How I Write · 2024-01-24
Books mentioned on I Spent 50 Hours With 20 Master Writers
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 4-Hour Workweek
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss is a highly influential self-help and lifestyle design guide that challenges traditional career trajectories and encourages readers to escape the nine-to-five grind through automation, outsourcing, and mini-retirements.
Discussed“But that's what Tim was doing when he was writing The 4-Hour Workweek.”
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Excellent Advice for Living
Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly is a collection of practical maxims and timeless wisdom structured as a guide for navigating life's challenges.
Recommended“The next is number two, Kevin Kelly, who wrote Excellent Advice for Living, which is a book of maxims and my favorite one is don't aim to be the best, be the only.”
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a popular self-improvement guide that offers actionable strategies for building positive routines and breaking negative ones through small, incremental changes.
Discussed“if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you know, it's the first one that comes to mind as one of these books which is everywhere you know, if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you go and read I don't know Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.”
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The Consolation of Philosophy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius is a classic philosophical work written while the author awaited execution, exploring the nature of fortune, happiness, and divine providence.
Recommended“if rather than reading Atomic Habits, you go and read I don't know Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.”
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Against Method
Against Method by Paul K.
Recommended“She recommends this book called Against Method by I think it's got a name Feyerabend.”
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MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville is a classic American novel chronicling the obsessive, destructive quest of Captain Ahab to kill the giant white sperm whale that maimed him.
Discussed“Or for instance in it doesn't always have to be a woman. In Moby Dick, the sea is the female. And the sea carries the mystery, right?”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, 4-Hour Chef and then Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.”
“4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, 4-Hour Chef and then Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.”
“4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, 4-Hour Chef and then Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.”
“4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, 4-Hour Chef and then Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.”
“4-Hour Workweek, 4-Hour Body, 4-Hour Chef and then Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.”
“I wanted this show to be like the Paris Review interview series, where if you haven't read it, you've got to read them... I wanted basically the equivalent of Stephen King's On Writing in interview form.”