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Every book Chatri Sityodtong recommended on podcasts
Chatri Sityodtong appeared on The Tim Ferriss Show to discuss his life journey from growing up in difficult financial circumstances to becoming a top sports executive. During the conversation, he discussed several books that influenced him during his youth. He mentioned receiving Peter Lynch's book One Up On Wall Street as a Christmas gift when he was a teenager, explaining that it helped spark his fascination with finance and investing. Continuing on the same theme, he noted that he also voraciously consumed Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor during his adolescent years as part of that same deep interest in financial markets. Additionally, Chatri Sityodtong brought up Bruce Lee's Tao of Jeet Kune Do to illustrate how Bruce Lee was a very deep thinker whose writings reflected profound insights into life and its meaning, rather than merely being a world-class martial artist. These books and writings collectively highlighted his formative intellectual influences, spanning from early financial curiosity to martial arts philosophy and deep personal reflection on the human experience.
Books recommended by Chatri Sityodtong
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One Up On Wall Street
Discussed“I was obsessed with martial arts and that anyone from my childhood would tell you, Chatch is a He's the martial arts guy. He's crazy about martial arts. But I was also crazy about for Christmas somebody gave me the book One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch. It's a great book.”
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Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee's classic Tao of Jeet Kune Do compiles the martial artist and philosopher's extensive notes, sketches, and philosophical musings on combat and life.
Discussed“Another person that I think books and there's a lot of books on Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is someone and people may think of may not truly understand. Bruce Lee was, yes, he was a world-class martial artist, but he was a a very deep person and how he thought about life and meaning of life. And so, reading his”
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The intelligent investor
The Intelligent Investor is a classic 1949 text on value investing written by economist and professor Benjamin Graham.
Discussed“And so I got obsessed with Warren Buffett and you know, Ben Graham and intelligent investor. And this was like when I was again a teenager and I just voraciously consumed it, but I never thought I would ever do something along those lines, right?”
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