Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2011-09-10
Joe Rogan & Tim Ferriss: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #137
Joe Rogan Experience #137 - Tim Ferriss
Joe Rogan recommended The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, and discussed The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss. Tim Ferriss recommended Good calories, bad calories by Gary Taubes, Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Letters from a Stoic.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Discussed“And what is the premise behind your first book is the 4hour work week. What is the premise behind that?”
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Good calories, bad calories
Recommended“uh but I would think that in addition to those types of stresses which are definitely biochemical events uh carbohydrate intake so there's a great book called good calories bad calories and there's a there's one section on disease states and carbohydrates”
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Born to Run
Recommended“Have you ever read Born to Run? No. Uh really good book, but it talks about the evolution of mankind.”
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The Black Swan
Recommended“Uh and he introduced me to the black swan by Nasim Talib, which is really about rare events and how poor humans are at at predicting or even planning for rare events.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Recommended“The best guide to that that I've ever found is letters from a stoic written by Senica.”
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The 4-Hour Body
Recommended“Tim Ferris 4hour work week. The 4hour body. Go buy his books, ladies and gentlemen.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“I've seen some pretty wild stuff with uh gene therapy in the course of doing the 4-hour body and meeting with all these athletes.”