📚 5 Books mentioned in "John Clarke: The Art of Fighting and the Pursuit of Excellence | Lex Fridman Podcast #143" of Lex Fridman Podcast

but i'm embarrassed to say that first of all i've never read the bible which is embarrassing to say it's like i read a bunch of stuff about the bible not the bible itself and the same not equating them

Lex mentions being embarrassed about never having read the Bible directly, only reading about it.

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there's also a book called uh jonathan livingston seagull by richard uh richard bach i think and um it's kind of along the same lines it's about this seagull who you know wants to break conformity and learn to fly and do all these other great things

John mentions this book and its author, describing its theme of breaking conformity and pursuing excellence.

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uh the book which i was lucky enough to read before the movie ever even came out which is just a a pleasure of mine was a american psycho just from a writing standpoint

John mentions reading this book before the movie came out and praises its writing style.

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i would say like probably the thing i read is in one of emerson's essays that i read at a you know point in my life where i needed that type of thing and i read self-reliance and you know he's got a ton of good essays but i thought self-reliance was probably the most impactful to me

John mentions reading Emerson's essay "Self-Reliance" and how impactful it was to him, particularly the idea of the individual.

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the communist manifesto is truly frightening if you read it in in like modern context it's worth reading

Lex mentions reading this book and finding it frightening in a modern context.

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