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Every book Logan Ury recommended on podcasts
Logan Ury appears on podcasts such as The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett and Modern Wisdom, where she shares expert insights on relationships, dating, and human decision-making. Throughout these episodes, Ury recommends and discusses several influential nonfiction books that inform her professional framework and personal perspectives. She mentions Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths's Algorithms to Live By to credit the source of her understanding of the secretary problem, and she brings up Barry Schwartz's The Paradox of Choice to explain the psychological concepts of maximizing versus satisficing in decision-making. Additionally, Ury references Viktor E. Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning to support her points on mindfulness and creating deliberate space between an action and its reaction. She also notes her husband's reading of Michael Greger and Gene Stone's How Not to Die to illustrate household health habits and intermittent fasting routines. Through these discussions, Ury highlights literature that bridges behavioral science, psychology, and everyday human behavior.
Books recommended by Logan Ury
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Algorithms to Live By
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths examines how computer science algorithms can be applied to human decision-making and everyday life problems.
Recommended“so there's a great book called algorithms to live by and that's how I came across this”
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The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz is a psychology book examining how an abundance of modern options leads to anxiety, decision fatigue, and chronic dissatisfaction.
Recommended“so there's been amazing research done by barry schwartz and he has a great book called the paradox of choice where he talks about these two different ways of making decisions”
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How Not to Die
Discussed“my husband is one of those people where it's like he's he read that book how how not to die and he is you know he's always intermittent fasting”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E.
Discussed“and honestly if you look at all of the mindfulness stuff if you look at the work of Victor Frankle and man Man's Search for meaning so much of it is this idea of creating more space between an action and a reaction”
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Books Logan Ury wrote
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I have a chapter in my book called make the second date the default”
“I have a chapter in my book called make the second date the default yeah and it's really because I feel like I won the lottery with my husband but he is somebody that takes longer to open up”
“I also teach dating classes and I wrote this book how to not die alone”
“and in general people can listen to my book how to not die alone or pick it up wherever great books are sold”