📚 6 Books mentioned in "Shane Parrish (Farnam St) on Finding Clarity and Making Better Decisions" of The Daily Stoic

Which projects would I take off my plate? So you finally did the book. When did you sell it?

In this segment, host Ryan Holiday asks Shane Parrish about the book he has written, discussing the completion of his writing project and how it fits into his overall time management.

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So talk about like there's two pieces of advice: one I followed and one I didn't, and they were super helpful. Yours, in hindsight, because you talked about structuring the book before you start writing. Okay, and so the process of writing it twice was like a little bit of hubris on my part.

Shane Parrish reflects on his writing experience, mentioning advice from Ryan Holiday about structuring his book before starting the writing process. He acknowledges that he didn't follow this advice initially.

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But the risk that people don't want to do with that is—and I talk about this a little bit in the book with identifying—the most important thing is you're putting yourself in a position where you could be wrong. Yes, so if I'm going to exercise judgment, I'm going to try to give Ryan, you know, above and beyond what's expected, well now I might be wrong.

In this segment, Shane Parrish references his book while discussing the concept of identifying, emphasizing the risks involved in making judgments and the possibility of being wrong.

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Uh, so you end the book with a kind of a memento mori, right? I like the Scrooge example; I think that that's so pressing for people, right? Which is like, if you let society unconsciously tell you what to pursue, what happens?

Ryan Holiday discusses Shane Parrish's conclusion in his book, which incorporates the concept of a memento mori. This references the idea of recognizing one's mortality as a guiding principle in life decisions.

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You say in the book you say that's something you asked your kids, which I thought was great; you're saying, is the behavior you're doing making the outcome more or less likely? I say that to my son; it's like, okay, look, we took the iPad away, and you want the iPad back, and you're freaking out and acting insane and hurting your brother, and saying, what are you doing? This is making me less likely to give it to you later.

The host, Ryan Holiday, references an idea from Shane Parrish's book, where he discusses the question of 'gas or water' to illustrate how behavior influences decision-making outcomes.

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Well, you told me, what was the other piece of advice? The other piece of advice was from Morgan Housel, who said, you know, if you have like 100 units of editing time, spend like 80% of those units on the first 50 or 60 pages of the book. Huh, and I thought that was super interesting.

Shane Parrish discusses an interesting piece of advice from author Morgan Housel about how to allocate editing time effectively for a book project.

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