Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-09-12
Lenny Rachitsky & Phyl Terry: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Land your dream job in today’s market: negotiation tactics, job search councils, and more | Phyl Terry (Author, “Never Search Alone”)
Phyl Terry is the author of Never Search Alone, which I’ve seen so many people reference as the most impactful guide they read for finding a job.
Lenny Rachitsky recommended Never Search Alone by Phyl Terry. Phyl Terry recommended Creative Destruction by Richard Foster and others, The Manual by United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom, and The Landmark Herodotus, and discussed Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Never Search Alone
Recommended“Phil is the author of never search alone which I've seen so many people at reference as the most impactful thing they read for helping them find a job”
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Bowling Alone
Discussed“Len there's so much research about this you know the surgeon general's book everybody talking and it's more detrimental to our health than smoking cigarettes you know bowling alone famously came out 25 years ago”
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The Artist's Way
Discussed“that's another exercise we ask people to do by the way is what we call the in critic exercise name the critic you know mine is tub tour I was I was overweight when I was a kid my dad called me tub tour I learned that tactic from uh Julie Cameron from the artist way she recommends that”
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Creative Destruction
Recommended“but right now what I recommend is creative destruction and I'm going to give your listeners the link to the right book is by a group of FR economists it's it's a little bit academic but it's so important”
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The Manual
Recommended“the the last book I'll recommend is the manual it's a short introduction to stoicism people misunderstand stoicism they think stoicism means repressing your feelings that is not what stoicism means”
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The Landmark Herodotus
Recommended“so I did recently Discover it but it's I mean talk about a book Lenny so 25 years ago guy named Robert strassler who was a business guy he started teaching at a special high school for kids who were dropping out and he was teaching them some of the classics like herodes and Lucid expert exer”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Never Search Alone
“but you need you know he was part of the product council's Brad like you you you need to have that sounding board so you can be thoughtful about and you know I I teach people how to map and figure out who their allies are and their blockers and play What I Call positive politics that's all my next”