Person
Every book Shane Parrish recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Shane Parrish
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Clear Thinking
Discussed“and that's mostly why I write in stories is that story by definition are taking you from one point to another where it's much hard it's it's much easier to be interesting in a story than it is to be in Exposition”
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The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel is a popular personal finance book that explores how human behavior, ego, and worldview shape financial decisions far more than cold mathematical spreadsheets.
Discussed“Well, you told me, what was the other piece of advice? The other piece of advice was from Morgan Housel, who said, you know, if you have like 100 units of editing time, spend like 80% of those units on the first 50 or 60 pages of the book. Huh, and I thought that was super interesting.”
Books Shane Parrish wrote
- The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time
- Clear Thinking
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts
- The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shane Parrish on Finding Clarity and Making Better Decisions (Pt 1) | The Daily Stoic | 2023-12-09 | 2 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So talk about like there's two pieces of advice: one I followed and one I didn't, and they were super helpful. Yours, in hindsight, because you talked about structuring the book before you start writing. Okay, and so the process of writing it twice was like a little bit of hubris on my part.”
Own book Clear Thinking
“so I wanted to write a book where every page every couple Pages you should be getting insights practical that are useful that connect things possibly in hopefully in new ways for people”
“yeah the great mental models books which we self which are Super popular in the bookstore by the way”
“But the risk that people don't want to do with that is—and I talk about this a little bit in the book with identifying—the most important thing is you're putting yourself in a position where you could be wrong. Yes, so if I'm going to exercise judgment, I'm going to try to give Ryan, you know, above and beyond what's”
Own book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
“You say in the book you say that's something you asked your kids, which I thought was great; you're saying, is the behavior you're doing making the outcome more or less likely? I say that to my son; it's like, okay, look, we took the iPad away, and you want the iPad back, and you're freaking out and acting insane”
Own book The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
“we released an audio book called the great metal models volume one and i did the narration for that”