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Every book Alex Hutchinson recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Alex Hutchinson has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of May 3, 2025.
- Alex Hutchinson has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of May 3, 2025.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of May 3, 2025.
- The book Alex Hutchinson has mentioned in the most episodes, as of May 3, 2025: Dopamine Nation.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Alex Hutchinson aired on May 3, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Alex Hutchinson appears on, in one place — not just one.
Alexander Hutchinson is a Melbourne-based Australian musician who mainly plays clarinet and saxophone, with a lifetime non-stop seventy-year career extending from when he was first professionally employed as a performer at the age of fifteen in 1949 until his effective retirement in 2019. Hutchinson discussed several books across his podcast appearances. On Modern Wisdom, he brought up Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation to illustrate the addictive elements of dopamine. During his appearance on The Rich Roll Podcast, he discussed his own book, The Explorer's Gene, explaining that a National Geographic article introduced the idea behind it and clarifying what the title meant, as well as discussing a chapter about effort and meaning. Additionally, Hutchinson cited his book Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance when giving an example of research on electric brain stimulation that had once seemed promising but later faded from discussion, and mentioned considering a follow-up to it.
Books Alex Hutchinson recommended or discussed
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Dopamine Nation
Discussed“You know, there's a really interesting book by uh Anna Lumpkkey, Dopamine Nation, which really gets into the uh the addictive elements of dopamine.”
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Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
Discussed“it's like endar did really well do I now write endar too you know the Revenge of the science of endurance um and that you know and it wouldn't have been called inar too”
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The Explorer's Gene
Discussed“that article introduced me to this idea of an Explorer's Gene which is the title of my book and which you know public service announcement to everyone there is not an Explorer Gene”
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Books Alex Hutchinson wrote
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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Uh I I wrote a book about endurance in 2018. And this is not intended as a gratuitous plug for that book, but the the the book did well and it was the culmination of about 10 years, let's say, of really focusing in on the science of endurance.”
“some people are so compelled by the desire to find out the unknown that they're they're they're never taking advantage of the things they learn and some people are stuck like a Hobbit at home afraid that they're going to miss dinner”
“Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance”
“and in fact I'll jump right in with the definition that I ended up using in the book which is the endurance is the struggle to continue against a mounting desire to stop”
“so basically what I tried to do in the book is I tried to sort of attack my this claim that we've just been talking about that it's all perception of effort”
“so so those are the sort of counter arguments that you have to think about and say okay but Alex before you write a book that that claims that in the limits of endurance are all in your head”