Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2023-08-23
Books mentioned on Kevin Rose On Entrepreneurship, Zen Buddhism, And Being Vulnerable
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Zen Art Book
Discussed“I've read a couple books that, you know, like Zen books that needed to be put into audio format that hadn't been put in audio format, so I just paid to have that done; like things of that nature.”
Speaker Kevin Rose On Entrepreneurship, Zen Buddhism, And Being Vulnerable 2023-08-23 Listen at 3:41Where to get it
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Delivering Happiness
Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh is a business memoir detailing the unique corporate culture and innovative customer service philosophy that built Zappos into a retail giant.
Discussed“Yeah, I mean, I do applaud some of these like, you know, what I really liked is the, you know, sadly the late Tony Hsieh who ran Zappos, he really tried this holocracy approach inside of his company where it was like a level playing field for everyone like really pushing the boundaries, he had a great book called Delivering”
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday is a philosophical guide that explores how unchecked ambition, arrogance, and self-absorption hinder personal success and fulfillment, drawing on historical examples to advocate for humility and discipline.
Discussed“I remember, 'Ego is the Enemy' was a huge one for me, and there were a few others like the Minimalist and some others were—I got into them, and I was like, 'Okay, there's a different way to live life here.'”
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A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway's classic novel follows an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army during World War I and his tragic romance with a British nurse.
Discussed“Well, there's there's a Hemingway quote that I love, I think it's in A Farewell to Arms, he says, you know, 'Life breaks everyone, but those it doesn't break, it kills.'”
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Animal Liberation
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer is a seminal work in animal rights philosophy that popularized the concept of speciesism and laid intellectual groundwork for the effective altruism movement.
Discussed“He's like the inventor of effective altruism; he wrote like Animal Liberation. Now, so he's like one of the first animal rights people, and then he came up with this idea, partly based on the Stoics, which he came up with his metaphor.”
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