Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-05-27
Chris Williamson & Neil Strauss: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom
The Truth About Women & Relationships - Neil Strauss, World's #1 Pickup Artist
Chris Williamson discussed Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz. Neil Strauss discussed The Game by Neil Strauss.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Marriage, a History
Discussed“So, I interviewed Stephanie Coontz, who wrote a book, A History of Marriage, and her take on it is, you know, we kind of went from, you know, what you were saying that it was this, you know, extra workers and inheritance rights and things like that to this idea of love to now she sees it as a pick”
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The Game
Discussed“The interesting thing about apps I find so fascinating, I met one of the this what I met one of the co-founders of Tinder reached out to me, and he says, you know, part of the reason we started this app was because I read The Game, and I thought, oh, that's so much work.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Game
“So the first book obviously not the first book I think it's my it's my third or fourth. But The Game was probably the most infamous one which is me trying to figure out dating and being in this world of and and being fascinated by this world of these pickup artists and the all the social implications of that”
Plugged Emergency
“meaning that by the way in between those I did a book which feels like tragically relevant now called emergency which is really about learning some the other skill of survival.”