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Every book Chase Hughes recommended on podcasts
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Chase Hughes appears on, in one place — not just one.
Chase Hughes has discussed and recommended various influential books across appearances on podcasts such as Modern Wisdom, The Shawn Ryan Show, and The Joe Rogan Experience. Hughes recommended Robin Dunbar's book Friends, using insights from the work to illustrate social body language differences between men and women at parties. He also recommended Robert M. Sapolsky's Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers to explain natural stress processing mechanisms, and brought up Federico Faggin's Irreducible while discussing human obsession with materialism. Throughout his podcast discussions, Hughes referenced several other prominent texts. He talked about George Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things to explain cognitive frameworks and early language categories, and mentioned a translated asymmetric warfare paper by Chinese intelligence officers titled Unrestricted Warfare to illustrate strategic conflict concepts. Additionally, Hughes referenced Desmond Morris's The Naked Ape when discussing human body language and evolutionary behavior, and highlighted Robert B. Cialdini's works Influence and Persuasion as fantastic literature detailing human influence and persuasion research.
Books recommended by Chase Hughes
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Crystallizing public opinion
Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward L.
Discussed“And he his best-selling book that he wrote about all of this is called Crystallizing Public Opinion.”
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Influence
Influence by Robert B.
Discussed“And Bob Chaldini, he wrote the book called Influence. And he wrote another book called Persuasion.”
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Friends
Friends by Robin Dunbar is a non-fiction book investigating the evolutionary mechanics of human relationships and social networks.
Recommended“One of my favorite insights about blading is from Robin Dunbar, and he has this book called Friends. A cool thing that you can do the next time that you're a party is look at the angle of the feet of men talking to each other and of women talking to each other.”
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Irreducible
Irreducible by Federico Faggin explores the nature of consciousness and challenges contemporary scientific assumptions regarding materialism.
Recommended“He wrote a book called Irreducible and it's talking about our obsession with materialism.”
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M.
Recommended“And zebras um and Robert Sapolsky wrote a book about a lot of this stuff but how nature knows what to do. It doesn't suppress healing mechanisms. It's called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.”
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Chaos
Chaos by Tom O'Neill is a deeply researched investigative non-fiction book that exposes startling connections between the CIA's MKUltra mind control experiments, COINTEL Pro, and the infamous Charles Manson murders of the 1960s.
Discussed“and there was a lot of hubub about it after Tom O'Neal's book chaos came out”
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Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion
Influence, New and Expanded: the Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B.
Discussed“And Bob Chaldini, he wrote the book called Influence. And he wrote another book called Persuasion.”
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Simulacra and Simulation
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is a philosophical treatise exploring the relationship between reality, symbols, and society in an increasingly mediated world.
Discussed“This French philosopher, his name is John Bodriard. He wrote a book called Similacura and Simulation”
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The Art of War
The Art of War by Sun Tzu is an ancient military treatise on strategy, tactical awareness, and understanding adversaries that continues to guide modern readers in various fields.
Discussed“in The Art of War they say give your opponent a golden bridge on which they can can Retreat”
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The Naked Ape
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris is a classic popular science book that examines human behavior, evolution, and physiology through the lens of zoology, treating humans as just another animal species.
Discussed“He was in his 90s, but he's like the first researcher who wrote a book about really observing humans as if they were animals. Like what How do their How do their body move? And uh, so the book was called Naked Ape.”
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Unrestricted warfare
Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui is a military strategy text written by Chinese People's Liberation Army colonels that outlines unconventional, asymmetric approaches to modern conflict.
Discussed“And two Chinese intelligence officers wrote a paper on this. Uh it's called I think it's called unrestricted warfare. It's been translated into English. And they use a hypothetical country that really looks like the United States uh in this paper. But they talk about this asymmetric warfare and how we have to get them fighting each other.”
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
Discussed“Uh this guy, I can't remember his name, uh he wrote a book called Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. That was the first language categories that we had for language was women, fire, and dangerous stuff.”
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Books Chase Hughes wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (3: passing, ad reads, own books)
“This is my newest book... Behavior Ops. This is your newest book. Yeah, Behavior Ops manual.”
“it's not Harry Potter we're not reading spells it's not a spell”
“and that's why I wrote a there's a whole chapter about it in in this book here but that elicitation is powerful”