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Books podcasts were talking about in May 2022
During May 2022, podcasts featured a diverse selection of non-fiction and psychological literature focused on personal growth, human behavior, and emotional healing. On the Huberman Lab podcast, host Andrew Huberman discussed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's pioneering work 'On Death and Dying' to explore the stages and myths of grief, and later recommended Richard P. Feynman's 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?'. Huberman also highlighted Dr. Wendy Suzuki's recent book 'Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion' alongside her previous work 'Healthy Brain, Happy Life'. The Daily Stoic podcast engaged with mental health and self-improvement themes, with the host referencing Lindsay C. Gibson's 'Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents' to examine internal struggles and external influences. In another episode, the host discussed Kate Bowler's 'Everything Happens for a Reason' alongside Jeff Olson's 'The Slight Edge', which guest Brooke Wells noted she was currently reading. Meanwhile, on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, host Jay Shetty introduced Simu Liu's memoir 'We Were Dreamers', describing it as an immigrant superhero origin story. Finally, the Lex Fridman Podcast featured Sarma Melngailis discussing her early reading habits, specifically highlighting Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.
Huberman Lab
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On Death and Dying
Discussed“Some of these arise from the pioneering work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a psychologist who authored the famous book on death and dying.”
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What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Discussed“If you haven't already read 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman' or 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?,'”
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Good Anxiety
Discussed“Her most recent book is entitled 'Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion,' and she has a previous book entitled 'Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better.'”
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Healthy Brain, Happy Life
Discussed“Her most recent book is entitled 'Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion,' and she has a previous book entitled 'Healthy Brain, Happy Life: A Personal Program to Activate Your Brain and Do Everything Better.'”
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Chatter
Discussed“Interestingly, there's a book I confess I haven't read, but I had a discussion with a psychologist from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ethan Kross, who wrote 'Chatter.' It focuses on how so much of our inner dialogue is, indeed, negative.”
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Spark
Discussed“He wrote a book called 'Spark,' which was one of the early academic books about brain plasticity and the relationship between exercise and movement.”
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The Nature of the Beast
Discussed“In the meantime, I want to direct your attention to his recently released book titled 'The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us.'”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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We Were Dreamers
Discussed“But today we're talking about your book, 'We Were Dreamers,' which is a beautiful title—a immigrant superhero origin story.”
The Daily Stoic
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Discussed“Acknowledging the internal struggle alongside the external influences is vital, and books like "Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents" reveal so much truth about this.”
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The Slight Edge
Discussed“Let's see, "Atomic Habits." I'm currently reading "The Slight Edge." I haven't heard of that.”
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Everything Happens for a Reason
Discussed“Her book is titled 'Everything Happens for a Reason,' with a subtitle along the lines of 'Things You Should Never Say to Someone with Cancer.' There's no value in wasting time feeling upset—such negativity is wasted energy.”
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The Night of the Gun
Discussed“We have these memories of how stuff went, and then when you actually revisit them—there's a great book by David Carr called 'A Night of the Gun' or something like that.”
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The Way to Love
Discussed“And then getting turned on to your books and then Robert Greene and, you know, early on like books like Anthony de Mello's 'The Way to Love', and all these different...”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Discussed“You've said that you did a lot of reading when you were growing up, and you mentioned 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' by Hunter S. Thompson.”
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Putin Interviews
Discussed“I remember that speech he made; it's in my documentary, a four-hour documentary with four different conversations.”
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Untold History of the United States
Discussed“And now let me leave you with some words from Oliver Stone in the untold history of the United States: 'To fail is not tragic; to be human is.'”
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Slavery and social death
Discussed“That might be the thing worth really trying to understand, because the practice itself is, you know, there’s a wonderful book by the sociologist Orlando Patterson called Slavery and Social Death that was published in 1982, which is a comprehensive history and social analysis of the institution of slavery over 2500 years.”
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The swerve
Discussed“Now, I, I read this wonderful book called The Swerve; uh, it's about Lucretius. It's about the nature of things, which is this great classical work from the Roman period by this, uh, guy Lucretius.”
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As I Lay Dying
Discussed“Um, there is a book by Richard John Neuhaus, the theologian called As I Lay Dying. As I lay dying, Richard John Neuhaus; uh, he had stomach cancer and he thought he was dying, and he wrote this book as he lay dying, and then he recovered.”
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An American dilemma
Discussed“Gunnar Myrdal, the Swedish economist who wrote about economic development, wrote a famous two-volume work, An American Dilemma, about the status of black Americans.”
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The Bitcoin Standard
Discussed“He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard."”
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The Fiat Standard
Discussed“He's an Austrian economist, an anarchist, and the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" and the new book, "The Fiat Standard."”
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Human Action
Discussed“In the 1940s, he wrote Human Action, which is a big treatise on economics.”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Le avventure di Pinocchio
Discussed“That's really what happens to Pinocchio because we're going to watch part of the Pinocchio story. He starts out as a marionette.”
Monday Morning Podcast
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A Tale of Two Cities
Discussed“I am a tale of two cities, a tale of red titties over here for old freckles.”
The Rubin Report
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On the Genealogy of Morals
Discussed“In the book, I use a couple of fantastic quotes from Nietzsche from Genealogy of Morals. one of his analogies that I lift is about people who pick at long-closed wounds, pick off the scabs, and then scream about how much they've been hurt. This is horribly pertinent.”
