Episode · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · 2026-04-20
Jay Shetty & Tim Ferriss: books mentioned on On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Tim Ferriss: The #1 Reason You Feel Stuck (It’s Not What You Think)
Tim Ferriss recommended Already Free by Bruce Tift and others, The Vagus Nerve by Kevin Jobson, Fierce Intimacy by Terrence Real, Letters from a Stoic, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, and Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, and discussed Good to Great by Jim Collins, Built to Last by Jim Collins and others, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and others, and Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Already Free
Recommended“I would say that in the last few years especially uh there's a great book called uh already free I think it is by Bruce Tiff that discusses the kind of two complimentary approaches which are the let's just say developmental achievement approaches that western psychotherapy might take or self-help broadly.”
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The Vagus Nerve
Recommended“I mean there's a lot of nonsense floating around out there about Vegas nerve stimulation, but if you talk to certain scientists like Dr. Kevin Tracy, you wrote a great book. I think it's a great book called The Great Nerve, all about the Vegas nerve, which is really like two transatlantic cables on either side of the neck with”
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Good to Great
Discussed“You know, Jim Collins, the writer of author of Good to Great and Built to Last and these iconic books, he tracks his creative hours.”
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Built to Last
Discussed“You know, Jim Collins, the writer of author of Good to Great and Built to Last and these iconic books, he tracks his creative hours.”
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Fierce Intimacy
Recommended“There's an audio book, there's no print version called Fierce Intimacy by Terry Reel, who is an amazing therapist. You should have him on the show.”
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Letters from a Stoic
Recommended“I pointed out, you know, the book right behind me, Letters from a Stoic, Senica the Younger. That's the Penguins classic edition. I've probably given away 100 copies of that book.”
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The Effective Executive
Recommended“Efficiency, and I'm borrowing from Peter Ducker here also, The Effective Executive. Everybody should read that book. Holy cow, what a great book.”
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Discussed“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Recommended“So 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. I love that. I think it's a phenomenal book.”
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Discussed“A friend of mine, uh, Ed Cook, he he was a worldclass memory competitor for a long time. He trained, I think it was Jonair, writer, to become national memory champion in the US in a book called Moonwalking with Einstein.”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The 4-Hour Body
“Say you look at the 4-hour body and then the subsequent 10 15 years a lot of that played out and ended up being very very highly reinforced by science.”
Plugged Tools of Titans
“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”
Plugged Tribe of Mentors
“Uh the law of category is a chapter from the 22 immutable laws of marketing. I think I put it I think I excerpted in Tools of Titans or Tribe of Mentors because that chapter had a huge impact.”