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Every book Kyle Eschenroeder recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Kyle Eschenroeder has recommended or discussed 8 books on podcasts, as of June 27, 2020.
- Kyle Eschenroeder has talked about books on 1 podcast, as of June 27, 2020.
- Those books came up in 1 episode, as of June 27, 2020.
- The 3 books Kyle Eschenroeder has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 27, 2020: A Little Book on the Human Shadow, Man's Search for Meaning and Self-reliance.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Kyle Eschenroeder aired on June 27, 2020.
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Kyle Eschenroeder’s most mentioned books
- A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Self-reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
- The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
- The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You (and How to Get Good at it) by Kelly McGonigal
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Kyle Eschenroeder appears on podcast episodes focused on self-improvement, examining desires, and understanding human psychology. Throughout his appearance on Modern Wisdom, he references several influential books to illustrate key concepts about motivation and personal growth. He quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-reliance to explain how default desires often push individuals to create lives that act merely as spectacles for others. To discuss the pitfalls of mimetic desire and how recognizing it prompted a career pivot, he points to Peter A. Thiel and Blake Masters's Zero to One. Eschenroeder also cites Marcel Proust's Swann's Way to highlight the dangers inherent in chasing default desires, and he mentions Robert Fritz's The Path of Least Resistance to explain why people ultimately follow the easiest path. Additionally, he references Kelly McGonigal's The Upside of Stress to explore how our bodies react to different stressors based on perception. To support the idea that struggling well provides essential life meaning, Eschenroeder brings up Viktor Emil Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. Finally, he mentions Nikos Kazantzakis's novel Zorba the Greek and references Robert Bly's A Little Book on the Human Shadow to provide practical context for shadow work.
Books Kyle Eschenroeder recommended or discussed
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A Little Book on the Human Shadow
Discussed“So, uh Robert Bly offers a really practical example of this in his book um A Little Book of the Human Shadow.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Discussed“And there's Victor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, actually considers suffering suffering well to be one of only three sources of meaning in life.”
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Self-reliance
Discussed“Ralph Waldo Emerson in in Self-Reliance has this line, "My life is for itself and not a spectacle."”
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Swann's Way
Discussed“And I think there's this there's a really beautiful It's a two-sentence quote uh from Proust from Swann's Way that gets into, I think, the nuance of why desiring, you know, uh our defaults can be dangerous.”
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The Path of Least Resistance
Discussed“Robert Fritz talks about this really beautifully in his book called The Path of Least Resistance.”
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The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You (and How to Get Good at it)
Discussed“Kelly McGonigal actually has she she has a ton of great examples in her book The Upside of Stress.”
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Zero to One
Discussed“And Thiel in his book Zero to One, he talks about how um kind of realizing this helped him switch tracks from uh uh a legal career that he was, you know, getting really far into and and had an incredible outlook um and and switching into tech, which which made his life a lot a lot better.”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| How To Work Out What You Want To Want From Life - Kyle Eschenroeder - #189 | Modern Wisdom | 2020-06-27 | 8 |