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Every book George Mack recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show George Mack appears on, in one place — not just one.
George Mack’s most recommended books
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
- Don't Tell Me I Can't by Cole Summers
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Secret by Rhonda Byrne
- The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel
- Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed, Matthew Syed Consulting Ltd
George Mack is a podcast guest who has appeared on programs such as Modern Wisdom and My First Million, where he frequently shares literature and resource recommendations. On Modern Wisdom, Mack mentioned John Steinbeck's East of Eden as an example of unique and original writing. He also recommended Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks, specifically highlighting its chapter on cosmic insignificance therapy, and praised Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller as an excellent evolutionary psychology-inspired dating book for men. In addition, Mack brought up David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity while discussing the philosophical concept that problems are infinite, recommended Andrew Roberts's biography Churchill during a conversation about Winston Churchill's life, and listed Ivan Goncharov's novel Oblomov as part of his recommended book resources. On My First Million, Mack recommended reading Ed Thorp's biography, noting it as one of the best biographies he had ever encountered, and praised Cole Summers's book Don't Tell Me I Can't as an exceptionally underrated and inspiring business book.
Books recommended by George Mack
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Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits by James Clear is a widely acclaimed guide on habit formation, personal development, and how minor incremental adjustments yield substantial long-term results.
Discussed“as James Clear says it's a vessel for self-improvement disguised as a money-making Enterprise the it's the the biggest driver of your personal growth”
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The Sovereign Individual
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg is a visionary late-twentieth-century book that anticipates the decline of the nation-state and the rise of decentralized digital economies, remote work, and cryptocurrencies.
Discussed“There's a beautiful line in the sovereign individual where he talks about the Roman Empire falling”
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Don't Tell Me I Can't
Don't Tell Me I Can't by Cole Summers is an inspiring biographical business and self-reliance book written by a remarkable young author who achieved extraordinary feats before his tragic passing at a young age.
Recommended“The second person on my list is uh is it's a book by called um Don't Tell Me I Can't by Cole Summers. It's the most underrated business book in the world in my opinion.”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is a time management book that reframes productivity around the fundamental finitude of human existence.
Recommended“And there's also a really, this is like the Brit roll call here, but I think Oliver Burkeman is also one of your countrymen, wrote a great book called 4,000 weeks, which is tremendous. And one of the chapters is called cosmic insignificance therapy.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a seminal exploration of behavioral psychology that examines the two systems of the human mind—intuitive thinking and deliberate reasoning—and how cognitive biases drive systematic errors in judgment.
Discussed“and I remember there's a line from Daniel canaman who wrote thinking fast and slow”
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The Secret
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a bestselling self-help book and film centered on the law of attraction, asserting that positive thinking and intentional visualization can directly manifest wealth, health, and happiness.
Discussed“what you had about 20 years ago was the secret the book that came out and it was this idea that you could just manifest things into reality”
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The Forgotten Highlander
The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart is a harrowing memoir detailing the author's survival as a Scottish soldier captured by the Japanese during World War II, enduring forced labor on the infamous railway and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
Recommended“I read the last Highlander by Alistair Urquhart yeah forgotten Highlander forgotten her forgot Honda”
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Extreme Ownership
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a practical leadership guide rooted in military combat experiences that emphasizes personal accountability and execution.
Discussed“you've heard about chakra willing so extreme ownership where you just take ownership of every single thing that goes on in your life”
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel is a foundational financial text arguing that stock market prices are completely unpredictable and that passive index investing outperforms active stock picking.
Recommended“Sean you should read Ed Thorp's biography one of the best biographies I've ever read adding it to the list a man for market.”
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Black Box Thinking
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed explores how individuals and organizations can learn from failure by examining the aviation industry's meticulous approach to safety.
Recommended“I think I there's a book called Black Box thinking which I recommend which studies the aviation industry where they compare well why are Airline deaths going down so much”
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Chasing Excellence
Chasing Excellence by Ben Bergeron is a self-improvement and fitness book that explores the mindsets, habits, and rigorous frameworks required to achieve elite performance in athletics and daily life.
Recommended“I remember seeing an interview with her as a part of Ben Bergeron's chasing excellence fantastic book highly recommended if you've not read it”
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Churchill
Churchill by Andrew Roberts is an acclaimed biographical work detailing the long, complex, and consequential life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Recommended“Churchill's biography is so good. Like you go Jesus Christ did this man um the big I think it's Andrew Roberts uh Churchill biography.”
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East of Eden
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is a sprawling, multi-generational masterpiece that adapts the Cain and Abel story into twentieth-century California.
Recommended“If you read East of Eden by Steinbeck, it's the last sort of big book I read.”
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Mate
Mate by Tucker Max and Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology-inspired dating and self-improvement guide designed to help men understand modern dating markets and relationship dynamics.
Recommended“So mine my my kind of go-to for this is a little bit niche, but it's Mate by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller. to become the man women want the evolutionary psychology inspired dating book for men.”
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Oblomov
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov is a classic 19th-century Russian novel that tells the story of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a nobleman who is pathologically incapable of leaving his bed or taking decisive action.
Recommended“There's going to be a a book breakdown, a list of a load of different books, but the personal one of uh Oblamov, a Russian man from the 18th century who the first 50 pages are about him getting out of bed.”
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Resilient
Resilient by Rick Hanson provides practical psychological strategies and mindfulness techniques designed to help individuals cultivate emotional strength, calm, and lasting well-being.
Recommended“So I spoke to professor Rick Hanson New York Times bestseller writer of hardwiring happiness and his most recent book resilience”
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The beginning of infinity
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch is a profound work of popular science and philosophy exploring human progress, knowledge creation, and cosmic optimism.
Recommended“I hate to sound like I'm doing an affiliate link for the beginning of infinity which I am. I'll post it in the link problems are infinite.”
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1984
George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 depicts a totalitarian society characterized by perpetual war, government surveillance, and the complete eradication of individual truth and freedom.
Discussed“so like double Fink which comes from George Orwell's 1984 right which to hold 2 contradictory beliefs”
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Deep Work
Deep Work by Cal Newport is a practical guide on cultivating focused success and eliminating distractions in an increasingly noisy world.
Discussed“yeah deep work from Cal Newport also alludes to that there's neurologically Milan creates around neurons that are continually firing”
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Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is a famously experimental and notoriously dense modernist novel that challenges traditional narrative structures with its idiosyncratic language and dreamlike logic.
Discussed“So I only find this out recently. So Finnegan's Wake is a book that I've read around a lot. I haven't read Finnegan's Wake, but I read about it a lot.”
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The other 16 books George Mack recommended or discussed, ranked
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
- How to Know a Person by David Brooks
- Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus by John Gray, John Gray, John [Ph.D] Gray
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- The Art of Persuasion by Bob Burg
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Appearances
Other mentions (7: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I don't think that there's that much of a waiting in terms of the LLM that James Clear's Atomic Habits on Moby Dick is worth 10 million times that of an anime and manga blog.”
“I don't think that there's that much of a waiting in terms of the LLM that James Clear's Atomic Habits on Moby Dick is worth 10 million times that of an anime and manga blog.”
“This is David Epste's new book, Inside the Box. really good.”
“um find out about Oblavv who I spoke last time my 400page Russian novel where a man spends the first 50 pages worrying about how he's gonna get out of bed.”
“Uh, the forgotten Highlander, Alistister Urkhart, you know, uh, Victor Franklman, Search for Meaning in some ways, too.”
“like I love people who I find and they posted some incredible essay on the sovereign individual it has five likes and I'll see their location oh he's in Amsterdam”
“apparently trump says it's not in the art of the deal so he'll stay like a price that's super high to begin with which means that then when he let's say for example he wants 5 million he will stay 10 million because now he's anchored them around 10 million”