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Every book Jason Zweig recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Jason Zweig has recommended or discussed 4 books on podcasts, as of August 15, 2017.
- Jason Zweig has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of August 15, 2017.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of August 15, 2017.
- The 3 books Jason Zweig has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Jason Zweig's own, as of August 15, 2017: Life and Fate, Shoe Dog and Thinking, Fast and Slow.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Jason Zweig aired on August 15, 2017.
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Books recommended by Jason Zweig
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Life and Fate
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman is a sweeping masterpiece depicting the brutality and human ramifications of the Eastern Front, the Holocaust, and totalitarianism during World War II.
Recommended“And I don't want to make this too book centric, but this was a very important experience for me. The best book I've read over the past year, I think you both have heard me talk about it before, is an amazing novel called Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman”
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Shoe Dog
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight is a celebrated entrepreneurial memoir that chronicles the harrowing early days and extraordinary rise of athletic apparel giant Nike.
Discussed“Phil Knight, who founded Nike, he writes in his biography that came out last year, he writes about the difference between giving up and quitting. And he says, you should give up all the time, but you should never quit.”
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The Devil's Financial Dictionary
Discussed“And in my dictionary, in the Devil's Financial Dictionary, when I define risk, I say, in the end, risk is the gap between what investors think they know and what they end up learning about their investments, about the financial markets, and about themselves.”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a seminal exploration of human psychology, cognitive biases, and the dual systems that drive how we think and make decisions.
Discussed“When I was working with Danny Kahneman on thinking fast and slow, there was one chapter where I sort of felt at the end of the day, literally the day, the calendar day, that we had done really good work. And one of us went to sleep.”
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Books Jason Zweig wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| Jason Zweig and Morgan Housel - Business vs. Investing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.50] | Invest Like the Best | 2017-08-15 | 4 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing War and Peace
“And it's enormous. It's sort of structurally patterned after War and Peace by Toy.”