Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2025-03-24
Books mentioned on The Explorer's Gene: Alex Hutchinson On Humanity’s Drive To Seek The Unknown, The Science Of Uncertainty, & Why Effort Creates Meaning
Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, Cambridge-trained physicist, and bestselling author of “Endure” and “The Explorer’s Gene.” This conversation explores Alex’s transcendent perspective on our primordial drive to seek the unknown.
Rich Roll recommended Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson. Alex Hutchinson discussed The Explorer's Gene by Alex Hutchinson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson is a science-based exploration of the psychological and physical boundaries of human endurance.
Recommended“this former Elite Track and Field a aete and Cambridge trained physicist turned journalist and New York Times bestselling author of endure which I might add is perhaps the best book ever written on the science of endurance”
Where to get it
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The Explorer's Gene
The Explorer's Gene by Alex Hutchinson is a compelling non-fiction book that explores humanity's deep-seated drive to seek the unknown and venture into uncharted territory.
Discussed“that article introduced me to this idea of an Explorer's Gene which is the title of my book and which you know public service announcement to everyone there is not an Explorer Gene”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“all of which he details in his latest book the Explorer's Gene this is a great conversation”
“but it's great to have you here today on the cusp of your new book coming out the Explorer Gene your book endure”
“some people are so compelled by the desire to find out the unknown that they're they're they're never taking advantage of the things they learn and some people are stuck like a Hobbit at home afraid that they're going to miss dinner”
“so you're somebody who in a kind of David Epstein rangeway has all of these seemingly like wildly differentiated kind of experiences and and levels of expertise”
“you have a unique set of skills that all kind of come together to make you the perfect and perhaps only person who could write the Explorers Gene”
“when I wrote Finding Ultra in 2012 I was talking about Zone 2 it didn't really make much of an impact I got to say”
“um the book is the Explorers Jean you did a marvelous job on this book congratulations and uh it's it was a pleasure to have you here today”
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“visit the episode page at Rich roll.com where you can find the entire podcast archive my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner”
“visit the episode page at Rich roll.com where you can find the entire podcast archive my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner”