Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W07

“Actually, Epictetus talks about this. He says, 'You know, someone’s working out, they’re lifting weights.' You don’t say, 'Show me your muscles.'”

“The new book is called The Sunshine Mind: 100 Days to Finding the Hope and Joy You Want by Tanya Rad and Raquel Stevens. I can't wait to tell you about these two amazing humans.”

“There's this guy named Felix Dennis. Have you ever read uh this awesome book called How to get rich? I love that book. Yeah I love that book. I recommend that book to everyone. It's horribly titled but it's the best book I've ever”

“and I was like and then I was like intuitively there's something more like um that Kevin Kelly thing the true fans thousand true fans where it's like uh he wrote this blog post that's amazing that's called a thousand true fans basically says if you can have if you can have a thousand true fans a true fan being”

“So Weinberg has this book called 'Dreams of a Final Theory.' Yeah. And I had this conversation with him; I said, 'Why do you think there’s ever going to be a final theory?”

“I just don’t think, you know, he wrote a book, A New Kind of Science, basically hinting at which a lot of people offended as like, we don’t have a good way to talk about these objects.”

“This is work by my colleague David Spiegel at Stanford Psychiatry and the great Robert Sapolsky, author of 'Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers.' He has a lot of popular books out there.”

“He is the host of The Young Heretics podcast and author of the new book out today which I highly highly recommend to you how to save the West ancient wisdom for five modern crises”

“and so I wrote this book how to save the West because I wanted people to have access to some of that stuff have ownership over this wisdom that comes down to us from Athens and Jerusalem so that we can answer some of these questions that are being raised”

“and Aristotle who's one of the great thinkers on this topic in his politics he says there's three ways that you can organize this”

“Rick Leventhal is here he is the author of the new book Chasing catastrophe”

“You know about that book uh from the 1800s about the Titan”

“Immortal Legend says you should read the book color communism Common Sense by Manning Johnson”

“Her recent book, 'The Case Against the Sexual Revolution,' published in 2022, notes the emergence of widespread disillusionment with sex, particularly among young men and women alike, and discusses the long-term psychological and social consequences of a life driven by hedonistic urges amid the upheaval of traditional marital concepts.”

“I've got here uh The Melancholy death of oyster Boy by Tim Burton which is poetry and this is from my speech Coach and he's been getting me to do poetry because it's got these sort of weird rhythms to it and um it's great”

“that's just not understanding how to play the game so Ian mcgilchrist guy that wrote The Master in his Emissary fantastic really great insight um had a conversation with him and it was an interesting time last year because I was really really digging into this tension between cognition and intuition”

“This is also what I learned from Edward slingle and the guy that wrote Drunk he's saying that switching off your uh PFC your prefrontal cortex is actually one of the best things that you can do for creativity”