Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2022-W52

“she started collecting all these different reports and and published the reports along with sketches from the people who'd had who's made these reports into a book called more than a legend in 1957 and it took the Loch Ness frivolity and turned it back into a potentially scientifically studiable thing”

“Wow, Brian! I just think your book is fantastic!”

“or salt was also used uh Mark kolanski has a great book called salt where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name but it is but it fits It looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Seoul which is where we get the phrase cough it up to pay”

“so we'll return to Philip goodchild here for another quotation where European philosophers have often sought some decisive term that gives shape to the ways we think and act such as being truth difference the sublime the void time or even God it seems to me that money actually plays the decisive role in our society for money is at”

“Sort of uh similar to The Red Dragon cases uh mentioned in the Hannibal Lecter series”

“It is a secret that can only be passed from man to woman or woman to man the two Cannot Be Blood related check out info into the Foxfire books”

“he was also inspired by a book a very long book it's 2 000 Pages it's called the Urantia book uh your antia was first published in 1955 officially there's a lot of speculation about who wrote it but it's like one of those um in the world of Prophecy it's something that would be called a direct speech book”

“it goes into some detail on the scriptural basis of their beliefs because the Yellow Deli was established by the leaders of a religious sect called The Twelve Tribes they're very focused on the book of Acts”

“so on top of his legal career Dad wrote books crime novels when he found out he was dying he started writing the snow killer”

“The book he wrote with Raymond Hall was called the Peter Principle. It wound up selling millions of copies.”

“What my book is trying to claim about is that all of our failures to scale—and the world is replete with failure after failure after failure—I want that to be viewed as a failure of common sense.”

“She has worked harder, writing her own book and being an entrepreneur and marketing that book and done it with a joy and a kindness to others, that like how could I be anything but incredibly proud of what she's doing?”

“in a book called genius and anxiety how Jews changed the world 1847 to 1947 the author Norman lebrecht puts forth another possible explanation for the high level of Jewish achievement”

“the experimental economist John list who's been on the show before has just published a book called the voltage effect how to make good ideas great and great ideas scale next week we'll hear from it and him in a special edition of the Freakonomics radio book club”

“That's Stewart buys he is a retired psychology professor and author of a book called believing in Magic The psychology of superstition”

“back in 2008 thaler published a book called nudge improving decisions about health wealth and happiness it was co-authored with the legal scholar Cass sunstein”

“Cass sunstein thaler's co-author on nudge has in fact just published a book called sludge what stops us from getting things done and what to do about it”

“there's a quote from Obama it's a three-word quote in the new edition better is good he said”

“I see that in 2014, you co-authored an economics principles textbook.”

“Instead, he's trying to make philosophy accessible to all. Here's an example: an excerpt from 'Nasty, Brutish, and Short.'”

“Thanks to Anthea Roberts for today’s conversation; her book is titled 'Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters.'”

“It's like that expression from Upton Sinclair, who wrote sort of very critically about journalism in one of his great books called The Brass Check, he was saying like it's impossible to get someone to understand something that their salary depends on them not understanding.”

“Clay Christensen, one of the great business consultants of all time, wrote a book on how to measure your life. His whole career was about measuring success in business, but in the end, he tells Harvard MBAs that none of that matters; you have to measure your life by other things.”

“It's these kinds of ripples compounded over generations that explain the country we live in right now. Have you read 'Nomadland'? Yeah, I remember as I was reading it, there's a part of me that was sorting through my capitalistic side and trying to understand how it could be this person's fault.”

“This took the form of several important books, the first of which was published in 2015 and is entitled 'Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win.'”

“I've read both 'Extreme Ownership' and 'The Way of the Warrior Kid,' and I found them to be immensely useful in terms of actionable information and understanding oneself and different kinds of relationships, both in and out of the workplace.”

“There's a compelling book called 'The Psychology of Military Incompetence' that I ended up discussing in about four podcasts.”

“JOCKO WILLINK: Yeah, I wrote a book called Leadership Strategy and Tactics. And one of the things that I wrote about in that book is understanding what's important and what's not.”

“I've read books by alcoholics, like the book 'Dry,' and others.”

“So, like for example, right now I'm checking out 'The Immortality Thief.' It's really, really cool.”

“and it was really kind of an urgency though in my own life that led me to write this this book called how to calm your mind”

“and and recently last couple years I've talked more about Candor when I wrote 12 and a half I'm like this is My Kryptonite”

“His first two releases, Unlearn and Things Nobody Can Teach Us, have become international bestsellers.”

“Today, we're talking about his new book, How to Be Loved: Simple Truths for Going Easier on Yourself, Embracing Imperfection, and Loving Your Way to a Better Life.”