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Every book Charlie Songhurst recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Charlie Songhurst has recommended or discussed 2 books on podcasts, as of June 27, 2025.
- Charlie Songhurst has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of June 27, 2025.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of June 27, 2025.
- The 2 books Charlie Songhurst has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 27, 2025: Caesar and Christ and The Selfish Gene.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Charlie Songhurst aired on June 27, 2025.
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Charlie Songhurst is an investor and startup advisor who has appeared on Invest Like the Best. Over the course of his podcast appearances, Songhurst discussed historical and evolutionary books that informed his perspective on investing, market volatility, and human behavior. He brought up Caesar and Christ by Will Durant on multiple occasions, describing it as a history of Rome from its founding to five hundred AD and the subsequent rise of Christianity. Songhurst cited the book as an example of how historical perspective and the study of past civilizations could help investors think through current events, volatility, and major structural changes. In addition, Songhurst referenced The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, drawing specifically on a chapter about hawks, doves, and evolutionarily stable populations of different behavioral strategies. He used this biological and evolutionary framework to draw a direct parallel to the behavioral strategies and patterns exhibited by investors in financial markets. Through these references, Songhurst demonstrated how deep historical and scientific frameworks could provide valuable mental models for long-term investing.
Books recommended by Charlie Songhurst
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Caesar and Christ
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant is a sweeping historical narrative covering the civilization of Rome from its legendary founding through the rise of Christianity to the fall of the empire around 500 AD.
Discussed“There's a book by Will Delonte called Caesar and Christ, and it's the sort of whole history of Rome from the founding to 500 AD and sort of the fourth Roman Christianity afterwards.”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a prominent 1976 work of evolutionary biology that popularizes the gene-centric view of evolution.
Discussed“Then there's actually a chapter in Dawkins, a sort of selfish gene on hawks and doves and evolutionally stable populations of different behavioral strategies. And maybe that also replicates in investors.”
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Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Then there's actually a chapter in Dawkins' sort of selfish gene on hawks and doves and the evolutionary stable populations of different behavioral strategies.”