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Every book Joe Hudson recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Joe Hudson appears on, in one place — not just one.
Joe Hudson’s most recommended books
- Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio
- Listen by Patty Wipfler
- The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham
- A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England by Edward Augustus Freeman
- Dying by Martin Shepard
- The Jaguar by Ann Malaspina
- The Quark by Fred Bortz
- The Tibetan book of living and dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Joe Hudson appeared on multiple podcasts to discuss and recommend books centered on psychology, emotional awareness, and personal growth. He recommended Antonio Damasio's Descartes' Error to support his point about the crucial role of emotions in human decision-making, noting that humans use logic to decide how they feel. He also highly recommended Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore's Listen as a profound parenting and emotional practice that helps individuals sit with the big emotions of their children. Additionally, Hudson brought up Marcus Buckingham's The One Thing to illustrate the idea of focusing on a single important goal. When discussing historical traditions that practice visualizing negative outcomes like death, he mentioned Sogyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying alongside Donna Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson, and Jeanne Katz's Death, Dying and Bereavement. Finally, he mentioned Murray Gell-Mann's The Quark and the Jaguar to illustrate how complex ecosystems need to be challenged in order to stay healthy.
Books recommended by Joe Hudson
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Descartes' Error
Descartes' Error by Antonio Damasio is a foundational work in neuroscience that examines how emotions are deeply intertwined with human reasoning and decision-making.
Recommended“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Deart's Error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something.”
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Listen
Listen is a parenting guide by Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore that offers practical strategies for building emotional connection and supporting children through difficult feelings.
Recommended“I there was this thing called handin-hand parenting which I highly recommend a book called listen which is like one of the most profound practices in my life and that was really where the big emotional understanding started coming in that that like oh I can be with my children in these big emotions and all they need to do”
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The One Thing You Need to Know
The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham explores the principle of prioritizing a singular, essential goal to streamline life and achieve exceptional success.
Recommended“There's a book called The One Thing and he talks about this pretty well.”
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A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England
Discussed“There's a a cool lesson uh about had this guy Edward Sling England on he wrote a book called Trying Not to Try which is about Wooi which you'll be familiar with and then he wrote another book about uh like the history of alcohol and um he basically described alcohol as kind of the perfect drug for the human”
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Dying
Although the provided text touches upon several distinct titles regarding mortality and philosophy, the discussions frequently circle back to classic traditions and texts that grapple with the reality of death.
Discussed“The samurai use this the I mean so many traditions use this which is visualizing their own death and they Tibetan book of living and dying samurai and then also what was it is like the Marcus Aurelius.”
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The Jaguar
Discussed“and I think there's a great Quark in the Jaguar which was written by a Nobel scientist I think that's the name of it talks about this”
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The Quark
Discussed“and I think there's a great Quark in the Jaguar which was written by a Nobel scientist I think that's the name of it talks about this”
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The Tibetan book of living and dying
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche offers profound spiritual teachings on mortality, impermanence, and the contemplative preparation for death.
Discussed“The samurai use this the I mean so many traditions use this which is visualizing their own death and they Tibetan book of living and dying samurai and then also what was it is like the Marcus Aurelius.”
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Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“It's the same way that the samurai or the stoics or or uh the debent book of living and dying over death. You just go through the thing and then you're like because what we're avoiding is the emotional experience.”