Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2016-12-27
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Shane Parrish: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #17
Shane Parrish – Mastering Mental Models - [Invest Like the Best, EP.17]
My guest this week is Shane Parrish, who created the extremely popular Farnam Street—a website dedicated to understanding the world by mastering the best of what others have already figured out.
Shane Parrish discussed The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by P. D. Ouspensky, The personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, and Meditations by Aurelius Marcus. Patrick O'Shaughnessy discussed The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution
Discussed“I think the psychology of man's possible evolution was a good one.”
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The personal MBA
Discussed“And the personal MBA was a good one, but that wasn't really a journey as much as kind of a compendium of things that I was supposed to have learned when I did my MBA.”
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Meditations
Discussed“Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. And the reason that some of these books speak to us differently, you know, you don't even have to read it twice in a row.”
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The Sovereign Individual
Discussed“You and I have both been reading this, this book, the sovereign individual, which I think is, is really interesting about, um, sort of the returns to violence and why that high returns to violence in the past led to governments and maybe big corporations and that that will be changing in the information age.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The 4-Hour Workweek
“Uh, I mean, Tim Ferris is a great example. He's enormously popular, but there's more people behind the scenes than Tim. Tim is not doing all of this himself. Do you think he's working a four hour work week?”