Episode · Lenny's Podcast · 2024-01-28
Lenny Rachitsky & Jonny Miller: books mentioned on Lenny's Podcast
Managing nerves, anxiety, and burnout | Jonny Miller (Nervous System Mastery)
Jonny Miller is the founder of Nervous System Mastery, a course that has helped hundreds of founders and tech leaders cultivate calm, reduce nervousness, enhance resilience, and elevate their sense of aliveness. Having personally benefited from Jonny’s teachings, I’m especially excited to have him on the show.
Jonny Miller recommended Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine and others, Consolations, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Diana Chapman and others, and Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal, and discussed The hour between dog and wolf and The Wolf by L. David Mech. Lenny Rachitsky discussed The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The hour between dog and wolf
Discussed“I was also reading a book recently called the the hour between dog and wolf, which looked at uh Wall Street traders, and they correlated higher degrees of interoception with basically making more money and making better decisions.”
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The Wolf
Discussed“I was also reading a book recently called the the hour between dog and wolf, which looked at uh Wall Street traders, and they correlated higher degrees of interoception with basically making more money and making better decisions.”
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The Body Keeps the Score
Discussed“On the topic of bottom-up, I imagine you're a big fan of this book that everyone always talks about, The Body Keeps Score, I think it's called. Mhm. Would you recommend that book?”
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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Recommended“And if you're interested in this, the work of Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger, is kind of the the seminal book on on this like mobilization reflex stuff that I'm I'm describing.”
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Consolations
Recommended“The first book is uh Consolations by by David Whyte. Um this is the book that I've I've gifted most to friends, I think, more than any other book. And he basically has 52 definitions of words like ambition is is I think the first word.”
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Recommended“15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, which is I imagine has come up before in in your podcast. Um this is by Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman. They have the Conscious Leadership Group, and this is basically in my opinion, it's it's the best leadership book that I've come across”
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Recapture the Rapture
Recommended“And then finally, uh this is a bit out there, but Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal. Um big fan of Jamie's work, Jamie's writing. This is is kind of three books in one. The beginning is like kind of addressing the meta crisis”
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