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Books podcasts were talking about in September 2022
Podcasts throughout September 2022 focused heavily on personal development, strategic thinking, and foundational literature. The Daily Stoic featured multiple conversations connecting authors to their craft, beginning with David Maraniss discussing his writing process and first book, 'A Good American Family'. Later on the same show, Thomas Chatterton Williams spoke with Ryan Holiday about his early education, recalling how his father incentivized him to read classics such as Aesop's Fables and Emily Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights', alongside Shirley Jackson's short story collection featuring 'The Lottery'. The Lex Fridman Podcast turned its attention toward competitive strategy when Daniel Negreanu recommended Michael Acevedo's 'Modern Poker Theory' as an essential resource for game theory, while host Lex Fridman examined the enduring relevance of Negreanu's own earlier work, 'Power Hold 'Em Strategy'. On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Byron Katie discussed the personal dynamics behind her book 'Loving What Is'. Meanwhile, StarTalk Radio captured Neil deGrasse Tyson reflecting on his youth, specifically recalling how reading Gail E. Dennison's 'Brain Gym for Business' sparked his lifelong fascination with the physics of the human body.
The Daily Stoic
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A Good American Family
Discussed“You talk about his sort of index Rolodex card system, and I wanted to hear more about it. Well, that was my first book, Ryan.”
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Aesop's Fables
Discussed“So he took money that in retrospect I realized he didn't always have, and he paid us handsomely, for our age, to sit and study and to read Aesop's Fables when we were really young and then to get on to more sophisticated things later.”
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Wuthering Heights
Discussed“It was very difficult for me to see, even as somebody coming from a house full of books, why at that age I was reading Wuthering Heights, for example.”
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The Lottery
Discussed“So, my dad, when one of the—I mean this is probably a little bit cliché or maybe obvious to some of your listeners, but when I was 15 or 16 and my best friend and I were studying all the time with my dad and we were navigating our social context and trying to figure out how to manage and”
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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Discussed“For my dad, like enormously impactful books for him were like Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed, which I have to admit I used to talk to him about Maimonides and stuff, but I never actually read.”
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The Story of Philosophy
Discussed“Basically, before the age of 10, the story that we’ve always understood from him was that in a neighbor's house, he came across a copy of Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy.”
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The Children
Discussed“And I was reading lately, I've been reading David Halberstam's book, The Children, on the sit-in movement.”
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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
Discussed“And that's actually really one of the main arguments in my second book, Self-Portrait in Black and White.”
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Epictetus
Discussed“At the beginning of 'Meditations,' where Marcus thanks all his teachers and specifically Rusticus for lending him his copy of Epictetus from his library, you realize that 20 centuries ago, someone gave this man a book, and a light went on for him—the switch flipped, just as it did for you and for me.”
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The Discourses of Epictetus
Discussed“Or Epictetus—it feels like he’s calling you out instead of whoever it was in the lecture hall that he’s speaking to in Discourses.”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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Modern Poker Theory
Discussed“There are also many professional players who stream poker, and you can get involved in the chat and start talking. You can ask them questions and see how they explain their thought process. There are so many free resources out there. Of course, my masterclass does a good job of compartmentalizing how to attack the game on a deeper level.”
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Power hold'em strategy
Discussed“Of course, my masterclass does a good job of compartmentalizing how to attack the game on a deeper level. You wrote a book, I think about 10 years ago, called 'Power Hold 'Em Strategy.' It's interesting to think how much of the material in that book still applies and how much doesn't.”
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The Singularity Is Near
Discussed“Eighteen years ago, in his book 'The Singularity is Near', he predicted that the onset of the singularity would happen in the year 2045.”
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The age of spiritual machines
Discussed“I made this prediction in 1999 in my book 'The Age of Spiritual Machines', right?”
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The age of intelligent machines
Discussed“Because I remember my first book, 'The Age of Intelligent Machines,' there was no way to get information from computers.”
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How to Create a Mind
Discussed“So if it would connect to your neocortex—and the neocortex, which I described in 'How to Create a Mind,' has different levels—it’s kind of like a pyramid.”
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Singularity Is Nearer
Discussed“But I show in this book that's coming out that the amount of people working, even as a percentage of the population, has gone way up.”
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Blitzed
Discussed“I just recently finished a book titled 'Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich' by Norman Ohler.”
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The Queen's gambit
Discussed“It's the trap that Beth Harmon falls for in the Queen's Gambit during her first game against the janitor. She gets really mad because she gets checkmated very early.”
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Transformer
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, an author of some of my favorite books on biology science and life ever written, including his two most recent, titled "Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death" and "The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?"”
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Vital Question
Discussed“The following is a conversation with Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, an author of some of my favorite books on biology science and life ever written, including his two most recent, titled "Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death" and "The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?"”
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The Black Cloud
Discussed“When I was about 15 or 16, I remember reading a book by Fred Hoyle called 'The Black Cloud.'”
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POWER, SEX, SUICIDE: MITOCHONDRIA AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Discussed“In your book 'Power, Sex, Suicide.'”
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Oxygen
Discussed“First, you wrote 'Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World,' as we've talked about the role of oxygen in life on Earth.”
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On Bullshit
Discussed“You have an excellent 50-part lecture series online on the meaning crisis, and I think you describe in modern times an increase in depression, loneliness, cynicism, and, wait for it, the term used technically by Harry Frankfurt and adopted by you.”
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Will to Power, Nietzsche's Last Idol
Discussed“Nietzsche's 'Will to Power', Freud's thoughts about wanting to have sex with your mother – all these different explanations are what truly motivate human beings.”
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Educating Intuition
Discussed“This is Hogarth's proposal in 'Educating Intuition.'”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Loving what is
Discussed“And that he is the one person in the world that could write on my book, 'Loving What Is.' Oh gosh, how do I tell this story?”
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The surrender experiment
Discussed“Ooh, um, I am super curious about, I was saying how I love Michael Singer and I think what I really love, I'm reading The Surrender Experiment right now, and I'm only in the first couple chapters.”
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The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Discussed“And since you're in the world, you know, about 25 years ago, I wrote this book on how to make that practical. And I don't know how, but basically, I came up with the idea of the seven spiritual laws of success: the law of pure potentiality, the law of giving and receiving, karma, intention, desire, least effort, and detachment”
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Unfinished
Discussed“I feel insecure; I’m terrified that this book is coming out. It’s the first time I’ve ever written something so personal in my whole life.”
StarTalk Radio
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Brain Gym for Business
Discussed“I read an entire book on kinesiology when I was in high school, and they said, 'Damn, if I didn't love astrophysics so much, I'd be a kinesiologist!' It was like it was physics applied to the human body in ways that I was just so fascinated by.”
SmartLess
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Digital Audiobooks
Discussed“Audible offers an incredible selection of audiobooks across every genre, from bestsellers and new releases to celebrity memoirs, mysteries, thrillers, motivation, wellness, business, and more.”
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The Power of Fun
Discussed“All Audible members get access to a growing selection of audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts that are included with membership.”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Undeniable
Discussed“Yeah, I'm happy for it, one of a book, I'm very proud of that, I wrote Undeniable. There was pressure to make it Undeniable, it seems like you missed an opportunity there.”
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Off the Record
Discussed“It’s called 'The Menace of Mechanical Music', which ran in Appleton's magazine in 1906.”
Huberman Lab
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ALTERED STATES (English Edition)
Discussed“Remarkably, the book 'Altered States' describes various meditation practices, some longer than the one I'm recommending like 17 or 30 minutes, with some devotees practicing for as much as 60 minutes a day, though I feel that is quite extensive.”
