Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2020-04-20
Books mentioned on Shane Parrish: A Former Spy On How To Think Smarter
Every single day you make about 35,000 decisions. Our lives truly are the sum of our decisions compounded.
Rich Roll recommended The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish, and discussed Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday is a philosophical guide that warns against the destructive nature of ego and ambition while offering practical Stoic strategies for humility and perseverance.
Discussed“Like Ryan wrote that ego is the enemy, but it's also your friend, right? Like there's two sides of this ego coin, which is it propels us to do things that have never been done before. I mean, the reason that you want to put people on Mars is because you think you can do it, but nobody's ever done”
Where to get it
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts by Shane Parrish is a foundational guide designed to help readers improve their decision-making and cognitive frameworks by utilizing mental models from various disciplines.
Recommended“Pick up the Great Mental Models Volume 1, General Thinking Concepts. Or you sold out in the hard copies now, or do you have them? are done. We we Kindle Kindle and audio are still there. Volume 2 comes out next month.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Like you've got this beautiful book out now, The Great Mental Models. It's like volume one, you know, starting with general thinking concepts. Like nine of you know, nine of the initial mental models in this, but you can get blurbs of all of them on your website currently, right?”