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Every book Ari Wallach recommended on podcasts
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- Ari Wallach has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of October 14, 2024.
- Ari Wallach has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of October 14, 2024.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of October 14, 2024.
- The 3 books Ari Wallach has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 14, 2024: Homo Prospectus, The Denial of Death and The end of history.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Ari Wallach aired on October 14, 2024.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Ari Wallach appears on, in one place — not just one.
Ari Wallach is a guest on podcasts who explores positive psychology, the future, and historical mindsets. During an appearance on Huberman Lab, Ari Wallach brought up the book Homo Prospectus by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Albert Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sekhar Sripada, noting that Seligman, as a pioneer of positive psychology, used the work to highlight humanity's unique capacity for mental time travel and looking toward the future. On the same podcast, Ari Wallach referenced Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death to explain how human creations and cultural artifacts function as psychological defenses against mortality. Furthermore, during an appearance on The Rich Roll Podcast, Ari Wallach mentioned Francis Fukuyama's book The End of History while discussing historical perspectives and official futures.
Books recommended by Ari Wallach
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Homo Prospectus
Homo Prospectus is a psychological exploration of how human beings mentally project themselves into the future to anticipate, plan, and shape upcoming events.
Recommended“in fact Marty Seligman uh kind of the the father of positive psychology put forth this idea in this great book called homo prospectus that what separates us out from almost every other species as far as we know the ones we can talk to mostly us is that that we do two things extremely well”
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The Denial of Death
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning philosophical and psychological study that argues human behavior is fundamentally driven by an unconscious terror of mortality and the subsequent cultural mechanisms created to deny it.
Discussed“1972 Ernest Becker wrote a book which you'll know all about the book based on the title called the denial of death he won the pillar surprise for it”
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The end of history
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama is a political philosophy book arguing that the worldwide spread of liberal democracies may signal the final endpoint of humanity's ideological evolution.
Discussed“So I was going to UC Berkeley when Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History.”
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