Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Huberman Lab

Episode: Robert Greene: A Process for Finding & Achieving Your Unique Purpose

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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The 48 Laws of Power (Special Power Edition)

by Robert Greene

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"Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery."
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The Laws of Human Nature

by Robert Greene

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"Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery."
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"Robert Greene is an author who has written more than five bestselling books, including The 48 Laws of Power, The Laws of Human Nature, and Mastery."
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"I first learned about Robert's work from reading the book Mastery, which to my mind is a brilliant exploration and a practical tool for how to think about and pursue one's purpose."
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"Whenever I'm asked for book suggestions, I always include Mastery in my top three recommendations."
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Longitude

by Dava Sobel

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"I taught it for four years, and one of the books was 'Longitude,' which is a wonderful story about the discovery of timekeeping devices."
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Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition

by Eric R. Kandel

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"One book I’ll leave as a mystery, not to be mysterious, but because it's a science book; I'll just tell you that it’s 'Principles of Neuroscience.'"
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"And your book, 'Mastery.'"
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"The reason I recommended 'Mastery' is because these students were soon going to enter the great jungle of post-undergraduate education."
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"For me, I found 'Mastery' to be an absolutely transformative book in that it taught me so much about how to learn from others and how to expect certain types of interactions when one kind of assigns themselves to a mentor and vice versa."
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Mastery

by Robert Greene

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"I usually end with a great debt of gratitude, and I'll probably do that again at the end, but I want to start with a great debt of gratitude; 'Mastery' transformed my entire life, and in many ways this podcast probably wouldn't exist were it not for 'Mastery.'"
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Five Minds for the Future

by Howard Gardner

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"When you're very young, they direct you towards intellectual and mental pursuits as well, and there's a book I recommend for everybody—it's Howard Gardner's 'Five Frames of Mind.'"
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The 33 Strategies of War

by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

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"This notion you referred to, 'death ground,' is an important tactic from my book, '33 Strategies of War,' which is about strategic thinking inspired by Sun Tzu."