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Books podcasts were talking about in January 2021
January 2021 conversations across multiple podcasts highlighted practical self-help, business culture, and contemporary fiction. On No Stupid Questions, Angela Duckworth recommended David D. Burns's Feeling Good as an effective resource for managing anxiety and depression, and later introduced Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe's Practical Wisdom. Business strategy was a focal point on This Week in Startups, where Jason Calacanis advised listeners to read Patty McCord's Powerful alongside Erin Meyer's work. On On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler discussed their new book, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, which Shetty enthusiastically recommended to his audience. Literary and narrative works also featured prominently; Lex Fridman brought up Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story while discussing the emotional nuances of life, and Pamela Paul discussed Dwight Garner's review of Eley Williams's novel The Liar's Dictionary on The Book Review. Rounding out the month's mentions, Joe Rogan touched on Ernest Cline's Ready Player Two during a discussion on virtual reality, and a listener on Timcast IRL suggested Stephen Coonts's Deep Black for insight into satellite technology.
No Stupid Questions
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The Best of Red Smith
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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Ring Lardner
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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My Brother, Ernest Hemingway
Discussed“and then I think about biographies I've read that really changed the shape of my life especially my life as a writer biographies of red Smith and ring lardner and Hemingway is a kind of cautionary tale”
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Self-help
Discussed“do you know the book self-help which I believe was the origin of the phrase have you ever come across that book by Samuel's Smiles like literally called self-help”
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Feeling Good
Recommended“one of the best-selling books if you're feeling depressed or anxious and you don't have a cognitive behavioral therapist that you can go to one-on-one you could buy Feeling Good by David Burns”
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Practical Wisdom
Recommended“so I did come across this book I'm not sure if you're familiar with it but I'd like to tell you about it a little bit maybe this would prove useful for Yvonne as well it's written by two authors one of whom I know you know Barry Schwartz who's a psychologist at Swarthmore and Kenneth sharp who's a political”
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A Treatise of Human Nature
Discussed“and this dates back to David Hume the Scottish philosopher This is from treaties of human nature he wrote this about our different elements I'm a venture to a firm of the rest of mankind that they are nothing but a bundle of different perceptions which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity and are in Perpetual flux and movement”
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In Defense of Free Speech
Discussed“his final book examines how universities censor their teaching the title of the book was originally in defense of free speech the university is censor but was changed to a book too risky to publish free speech in universities after his publisher Emerald press canceled its publication for fear of quote the potential for serious harm to Emerald's reputation and”
This Week in Startups
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The Culture Map
Discussed“so that's how i started working with with reed because he read my first book the culture map he was getting ready for this international expansion he had his leadership team uh read it i came and spoke to netflix about it”
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Powerful
Recommended“but you really want to read this book and apply it and then get patty mccourts as well i think it's a nice i've i've had patty on as well on the podcast a couple years ago and it's really nice to to read both”
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Common Sense
Discussed“And the book is called Common Sense, The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth. And it's by a guy named Joel Greenblatt.”
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Common Sense - the Investor`s Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
Discussed“And the book is called Common Sense, The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth. And it's by a guy named Joel Greenblatt.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Teaching Tricks to Canaries and Cage Birds
Discussed“people laughing that that sound is kind of like carolyn knapp who wrote a book called drinking a love story which is a really good book about not drinking drinking and then not drinking”
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Drinking: A Love Story
Recommended“people laughing that that sound is kind of like carolyn knapp who wrote a book called drinking a love story which is a really good book about not drinking drinking and then not drinking”
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The World Computer
Discussed“so this is the book which it's not even a book it's a it's an essay by uh jonathan neumann called the computer and the brain and that was the thing the book he was writing knowing that he he was dying of cancer”
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The Brain in Context
Discussed“so this is the book which it's not even a book it's a it's an essay by uh jonathan neumann called the computer and the brain and that was the thing the book he was writing knowing that he he was dying of cancer”
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The Master & Margarita
Recommended“uh it's bulgakov's master and margarita so that's probably you know well not for russian maybe it's not super original but it's you know it's it's a really powerful book for uh even in english so i write it in english”
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Cancer Ward
Recommended“so so the second one is again another one that uh it happened uh i read it uh later in my life i think uh i read it first time when i was a a a graduate student and that's uh the solzhenitsyn's uh cancer ward that is an amazingly powerful book”
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November 1916: A Novel
Recommended“him being a part of the of the you know of someone sent to the to gulag camp right and also someone who who experienced cancer in his life you know the the good luck archipelago and this book these are the works that actually made him uh you know receive a nobel prize”
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The Master and Margarita
Recommended“it's bulgakov's master and margarita that's probably you know well not for russian maybe it's not super original but it's you know it's it's a really powerful book for for even in english so i write it in english so it is incredibly powerful”
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The Computer and the Brain
Recommended“this is the book which it's not even a book it's an essay by jonathan neumann called the computer and the brain and that was the thing the book he was writing knowing that he he was dying of cancer”
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Lab Girl
Recommended“so and this is i mean the reason i put it sort of in this separate section because this is a book that i reasonably recent uh uh recently listened to so so it's an audio book and this is a book called lab girl by hope jaron”
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A Wrestling Life
Discussed“so if if in your i think the first wrestling life you wrote about chad zappato who lost i mean incredible wrestler but lost in three finals in the nationals”
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Creative Selection
Recommended“there's that book uh creative selection I don't know if you read it by a apple engineer named ken cocienda it's kind of a great book actually because unlike most of these business books where it's you know here's how steve job ran the company it's more like here's how life was like for me you know an engineer here”
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First, Break All The Rules
Recommended“it's like a pretty good book which some reason not the name escapes me um about management first break all the rules uh first break all the rules first break all the rules it's a book that we kind of like ask a lot of like first-time managers to read a rev”
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God Emperor of Dune
Recommended“and the third greatest is the god emperor of doom”
The Book Review
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The Plague Year
Discussed“it's called the plague year and knoff is publishing it”
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Preventable
Discussed“and so his book is called preventable and that'll be coming out this year as well pretty soon”
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The Liar's Dictionary
Recommended“and you reviewed recently one such book The Liars dictionary by Ellie Williams which I just it's a delightful review”
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Troubled
Discussed“Kenneth Rosen will join us to talk about troubled the failed promise of America's behavioral treatment programs”
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Summer Cooking (Cookery Library)
Discussed“summer cooking by Elizabeth David”
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The Soul of a New Machine
Discussed“the other book that I'm still reading right now and really enjoying a lot is a 1981 book by Tracy K it's non-fiction called the soul of a new machine”
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A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
Book club“she is our group text columnist here to discuss her January Peck which is a lie someone told you about yourself”
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Saving Justice
Discussed“Joe Klein will join us to talk about comey's new book saving Justice”
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Kill Switch - the Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Discussed“so the book I reviewed is called kill switch by Adam genton”
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Third Class Superhero
Discussed“so the titles are third class superhero how to live safely in a science fictional universe”
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How to live safely in a science fictional universe
Discussed“so the titles are third class superhero how to live safely in a science fictional universe”
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Sorry please thank you
Discussed“and sorry please thank you which is a collection of stories”
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The Last American Aristocrat
Discussed“it's called the last American Aristocrat the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams”
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Just Like You
Recommended“I have been reading Just Like You by Nick Hornby”
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The Watchtower
Recommended“I just finished reading a book called The Watchtower a novel by Elizabeth harrower an Australian writer”
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Present at the Creation
Recommended“this is actually a very interesting companion book I would say to read alongside Dean aeson's Memoir present at the creation which kind of deals with a lot of this same period or part of that Memoir does”
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Discussed“his latest book is called 10 lessons for post-pandemic World fared”
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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Discussed“or the love affairs of Nathaniel P by Adele Waldman who reviewed this book for us”
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Apartment
Discussed“or Teddy Wayne's most recent novel apartment was also about the New York creative class in in the late '90s and early 2000s”
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Light in August
Discussed“my parents had a copy of light in August by William Falkner on their shelves and it was like this really old edition of light in August”
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Other People's Houses
Recommended“a book called other people's houses by lur seagull”
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Caleb & Kate
Recommended“another of my favorite in that particular subgenre is William stigs Caleb and Kate which is about like a a middle-aged married couple that gets into a huge fight”
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Kings County
Recommended“now I'm about halfway through a novel called King's County by David goodwillie it came out this summer”
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Identical Strangers
Recommended“the book I liked most in that subub genre was a book called identical strangers by Alise shine and Paula Bernstein which was told in alternating chapters”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Icarus
Discussed“guess after watching the documentary um Icarus from Brian Fogle where they talked about how there was a state sponsored doping program where all of the Olympic athletes”
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Ready Player Two
Recommended“i don't want a ready player to spoil anything but this is like so it's so good the second book was really good”
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Juiced
Discussed“it's called juiced you know if there's a reason why yeah juice wild times rampant roids smash hits and how baseball got big”
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Sophie's Choice
Discussed“sophie's choice that's a good one yeah that's a real sophie's choice where you gotta choose between explain that to people what is sofia sophie's choices like she had to choose it's great movie by a great movie with meryl streep uh you know that a lot of people just was you were supposed to read the book in high”
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Tales from the Blast Factory
Discussed“and with his brother adam writing this book tales from the blast factory”
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WHEN BRAINS COLLIDE
Recommended“it's like pthe book i gave you from pfrom by colonel michael plewis which is with brains when brains collide he talks about the accosinoids which are the fish oils and how they up regulate two proteins surviving and protecting and drop the inflammatory pcytokines”
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Battlefield Earth
Discussed“i'm almost want to sit down with him make him watch battlefield earth oh god nobody can watch that i've watched it like five times no really yeah i love it i get high and watch it it's [__] hilarious”
Pod Save America
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The crisis of democracy
Discussed“and one and terry uh moe and howell have a great book on this uh it's president's populism and something”
Behind the Bastards
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Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977
Discussed“And I'm going to quote now from the book Fascism in Spain. The point of inflection in the political violence took place on Sunday, June 10th. The chibberies of the young socialists had been prohibited by authorities from marching in the streets of Madrid”
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler
Discussed“And I'm going to quote again from the trial of Adolf Hitler. This guy's name is our hour ours's elder daughter Sophie asked the intruders to be as quiet as possible because her own two-year-old daughter was sleeping.”
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The Trial of Adolf Hitler
Discussed“1922 23 is the beer hall butch and I'm going to quote now from a book called the trial of Adolf Hitler by David King and he's this is Hitler talking at first if a German Mussolini is given to Germany Hitler said to a journalist for London's Daily Mail on the eve of the push people would fall down”
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Fatal Misconception
Recommended“His book, Fatal Misconception, lays out the whole sorted tale. In it, he concludes, "The great tragedy of population control, the fatal misconception was to think that one could know other people's interests better than they know it themselves.”
The Realignment
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The Captured Economy
Discussed“uh that is if your watch if you're listening the captured economy how the powerful enrich themselves slow down growth and increase inequality in the name of the worst pivot of all time how does the idea of a captured economy relate to everything we've been discussing for the past 55 minutes”
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The New Class War
Discussed“we spoke about your book the new class war a month before lockdown's coronavirus”
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Eminent Victorians
Discussed“can we just give a good portrait of the generations coming before especially within the framework of the book that this is sort of based on eminent victorians which was the same profile style but focused on the victorian era british folks”
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Coming of Age on Zoloft
Recommended“a book that i read for this book that i i love is called coming of age on zoloft by a millennial journalist named catherine sharp”
The Daily Stoic
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How to Become a Straight-A Student
Discussed“it was called how to be a straight a student and it was study habits from actual straight a students”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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How to Lead
Discussed“you mentioned a name earlier that i know is featured in your book how to lead wisdom from the world's greatest ceos founders and game changers”
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Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
Recommended“exploring the world of lucid dreaming by stephen labiersch l-a-b-e-r-g-e and howard ryangold”
Conversations with Tyler
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Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
Discussed“i'm very happy to be here today with ben friedman who has a new wonderful book out religion and the rise of capitalism”
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The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Discussed“you've written a famous book moral consequences of economic growth”
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Origin
Discussed“no you know i read a couple of years ago this book i think was called origins i want to say by dan brown if it wasn't by dan brown it was probably somebody like dan brown because it seemed like that a kind of series it was about kind of ai in the context of some mystery novel and”
Timcast IRL
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Harrison Bergeron
Discussed“no it's that book and bergeron bridger, where the beautiful people have to like”
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Deep Black
Recommended“If you want to see insane things satellites are capable of look into maxar as well as a book called deep black”
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Ishmael
Discussed“Well because the it's based on this book called ishmael where this like spirit was in a spirit gorilla”
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That hideous strength
Recommended“people should read that hideous strength by c.s lewis a book even more prophetic than 1984 that deals with the subject of scientific authorism”
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#DELETED
Recommended“ellon you wrote a book on tech censorship called um deleted big text battle to erase the trump movement and steal the election”
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The demon in democracy
Recommended“read the demon in democracy by rizzard lagutco great podcast thank you”
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Spirit of the rainforest
Recommended“check out a book called spirit of the rain forest about an indian tribe in the amazon”
EconTalk
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
Discussed“because we will be looking at his sources so we'll be looking at avid's metamorphosis for the story of pyramus and thisbe”
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How to Think Like Shakespeare
Discussed“so i'm gonna say just a little something about your book it's um short and sweet it's lovely uh in print form it's a beautiful little book it's not so nice on the kindle which you've told me beforehand”
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On copia of words and ideas (De utraque verborem [sic] ac rerum copia)
Discussed“there's a great example that i bring up in the book by the humanist educator um erasmus from his wonderful book of copia or of copiousness”
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The Economics of Violence
Discussed“um your book has three case studies we may get to them indeed more detail”
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The Logical Foundations of Constitutional Liberty
Discussed“they're both readable accessible mostly to a general reader and available in the book the logical foundations of constitutional liberty published by liberty fund the sponsor of econ talk”
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The Hidden Half
Discussed“Yeah, I I saw recently in uh Michael Blastland's book uh The Hidden Half, I think he tells this that where I saw this, the the defender of of uh European Union explaining to the uh British working class woman that that uh GDP is going to go up if we stay in the EU”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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The Joy of Work
Discussed“you wrote a smash hit book about work called the joy of work and i've seen this book absolutely everywhere”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Exponential Organizations
Discussed“you know that i talk about the book exponential organizations a lot”
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How Google Works
Discussed“so it was about the book how google works and the book was fantastic”
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The Future Is Faster Than You Think
Recommended“and today we're talking about his new book the future is faster than you think how converging technologies are transforming business industries and our lives we have put the link in the podcast section in the comments and everywhere across our bio so you can go and grab a copy of the book as you listen to our interview today”
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The Lonely Doll
Recommended“Tell us some of the best children's books you recommend. I love The Lonely Doll, I love The Seven Silly Eaters, Goodnight Moon, of course, Crazy Strange, Where the Wild Things Are.”
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The Seven Silly Eaters
Recommended“Tell us some of the best children's books you recommend. I love The Lonely Doll, I love The Seven Silly Eaters, Goodnight Moon, of course, Crazy Strange, Where the Wild Things Are.”
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Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present
Recommended“Mr. Rabbit and the and the gift.”
The Rubin Report
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Basic economics
Discussed“I mean, his best-selling book, he's known a lot of people for his writings on race, but his best selling book is "Basic Economics," which is essentially an economics textbook without any graphs and equations in it.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Manchurian Candidate
Discussed“He wrote a book which became the origin of um the manchurian candidate the novel was based on this guy's research”
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A Hero of Our Time
Discussed“this reads sounds like a spy novel it's actually um i'm thinking of um a poem um by le montov a hero of our time”
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A Man for All Seasons
Discussed“and he kind of reminds me of sir thomas more in the bitten man for all seasons i love robert bolt who wrote that”
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A Life on Our Planet
Discussed“the other day i started listening to david attenborough's um a life on this planet and it was so good and yet so depressing”
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Optionality
Recommended“optionality how to survive and thrive in a volatile world will be linked in the show notes below on amazon if this has been the sort of thing that you've enjoyed today then i highly recommend that you go and pick it up”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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The Anti-Viral Gut
Discussed“And unlike my first book, "Gut Bliss" which probably 90% of the stuff in the book I knew and was just my daily experience seeing patients with GI problems and very little research "The Microbiome Solutions" was sort of the opposite.”
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Microbiome Solution
Discussed“And unlike my first book, "Gut Bliss" which probably 90% of the stuff in the book I knew and was just my daily experience seeing patients with GI problems and very little research "The Microbiome Solutions" was sort of the opposite.”
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Fiber Fueled
Recommended“To close out today's Deep Dive, let's hear from my buddy, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, a gastroenterologist, gut health guru, and author of the must read "Fiber Fueled."”
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Why We Swim
Discussed“She is the author of a really beautiful new book called "Why We Swim".”
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American Chinatown
Discussed“I wrote my first book, American Chinatown about how I noticed that when I would go to a city...”
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Karamo
Recommended“Karamo’s self-titled primer on emotional healing, Karamo: My Story Of Embracing Purpose, Healing, is an inspiring must-read for anyone grappling with adversity.”
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Sandworm
Discussed“Andy Greenberg writes about this in his book called "Sandworm".”
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Key to Yourself
Discussed“It's written by Venice Bloodworth. "The Key to Yourself" is a book that explained the law of attraction and visualizing and all that stuff.”
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The Attributes
Recommended“the best way to begin that process is to pick up Rich's new book, "The Attributes." You can go to theattributes.com.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Prodigal Son
Discussed“you have a new book coming out in january what's the name of that book prodigal son”
Freakonomics Radio
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Smoke gets in your eyes
Book club“reading ahead is not at all a requirement but if you would like to do so the next book we're doing is Smoke Gets In Your Eyes like Caitlin Dowdy she is a mortician”
