Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-04-20
Lex Fridman & Skye Fitzgerald: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #278
#278 – Skye Fitzgerald: Hunger, War, and Human Suffering
Skye Fitzgerald is a two-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, his films include Hunger Ward, Lifeboat, and 50 Feet from Syria.
Skye Fitzgerald recommended TEN POINTS by Bill Strickland, and discussed The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Prophet
Discussed“i was given um the prophet by kilio de braun when i as a graduation president from my eighth from my high school english teacher and i still have that book in a special place on my bookshelf because i think it speaks to the nature of human experience right and i return to it all the time because there's”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Discussed“the seven habits of highly effective people yes um i read that in my early twenties yeah and i found so many of um the principles in that book what are what are the habits from that one uh seek first to understand than to be understood is one of them you know the notion of proactivity is one of”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Princess Bride
“Boy, these are all non-fiction except for The Princess Bride. I have to mention it's an outlier.”
Passing The Princess Bride
“boy these are all non-fiction except for the princess bride um i have to mention it's an outlier”