📚 9 Books mentioned in "Josh Barnett: Philosophy of Violence, Power, and the Martial Arts | Lex Fridman #165" of Lex Fridman Podcast

you brought up frankel and i'm like yeah frankel's dope answers for meaning uh maslow's great and and i talked to you about how i started to think like man do the ability for human beings to to to live and or potentially flourish in the worst environments you can think of is pretty incredible in and of itself and that it's a crazy thought to think that without frankel and maslow ending up in concentration camps do they write some of the most important books on philosophy in the 20th century

Lex Fridman mentions Viktor Frankl and his work on meaning. Josh Barnett agrees and notes that Frankl wrote important books on philosophy after experiencing concentration camps, strongly implying Frankl's famous book.

► Watch this excerpt

for example i've been recently reading mineconf you know what that's the thing even there's something in there's probably things in mineconf that are not the surface level Read if you get all hung up on on all probably all his crap about uh you know his anger anger at jews and this and that all this crap It's like okay yeah that that's right On the surface Try to get below that try to see you know how is he how is he creating the jews as a cope Somehow like how is he using why why are they his his scapegoat

Lex Fridman mentions reading Mein Kampf, and Josh Barnett discusses finding potential insights even in such a controversial book by looking beyond the surface.

► Watch this excerpt

part of the reason why i like no country for old men so much which i felt was a great great great movie even better book but uh i remember talking to my friend and i go you know anton chigger is the most pure human being in that whole book

Josh Barnett mentions liking the movie No Country for Old Men, but states that the book is even better, and discusses a character from the book.

► Watch this excerpt

and now let me leave you with some words from sun tzu in the art of war the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting thank you for listening and hope to see you next time

Lex Fridman quotes Sun Tzu from The Art of War to end the podcast episode.

► Watch this excerpt

to be perfectly honest i mean reading the hagakure going back to philosophy books This was really impactful on me as a younger adult Because here's a book written in the 19th century about someone who lived through the 19th and 18th century at times as a samurai now a monk And his objections to society at the time the same objections one was having to society as i was reading it like the same human behaviors the same uh impetus for action that he found a problem like well that's the same That's the same shit now like we're not

Josh Barnett mentions reading the Hagakure and finding its observations on human behavior and societal issues relevant even today.

► Watch this excerpt

derived from a book by called the outfit by ah what is his name uh i forget but darwin cook the comics illustrator he did donald westlake wrote so darwin cooked is does an amazing comic book send up of darwin cook's novels And they are fucking incredible

Josh Barnett mentions that the movie Point Blank was derived from a book called The Outfit, and later identifies Donald Westlake as the author whose novels Darwin Cooke adapted into comics.

► Watch this excerpt

It's like well you could always pick a book and read out about read about it clearly it's called the torah

Josh Barnett mentions the Torah as an example of a book containing traditions that need to be kept alive.

► Watch this excerpt

well there was an example in the spoke zarathustra about a snake being down the person's throat and biting it and then having this maniacal laughter erupting and you know to me it was at least i read it as yeah okay there's this insane moment that isn't forever but that it is life and death

Josh Barnett refers to an example from the book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, interpreting a scene involving a snake and laughter in the context of life, death, and overcoming.

► Watch this excerpt

there's a book called wrestling tough Yeah this is a really good book there's i've encountered in my life a few uh especially in wrestling people who really tried to find a way to use anger to get really angry at their opponent Not like stupid anger but just like intense pointed uh anger uh distilled into something uh that you can use yeah fuel And like i remember the story i don't know where i read it might be wrestling tough where a person was imagining that their opponent just raped their mother raped their uh girlfriend or something like that to to create this like method acting thing in their head to be like to to snap them out of this polite interaction of the usual like athletic convention and like you know really design of necessity

Lex Fridman mentions a book called Wrestling Tough, which Josh Barnett confirms is a good book. Lex then recounts a story about using anger in wrestling that he might have read in the book.

► Watch this excerpt