Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W21

“I wrote about this in my first book, and they treated the transition in a very professional way and said, you know what, we disagree with you, but our job is to make sure you're ready to govern and that you guys are successful.”

“He wrote an essay called ‘Mysticism and Logic’ where he discusses the battle between intuition and intellect, and the point is—we now have these skills; we are intellectually equipped to apply the scientific method and determine if things are real or fake, yet we're not using it as well as we could be!”

“I once read an engaging book titled 'Systemantics' by John Gall, containing aphorisms about how systems function. One memorable aphorism was, 'The system does not do what its name suggests.'”

“His controversial book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK.”

“Now, one of the things I learned, for example, I read a book called 'Hitler's Table Talk,' and it was transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times over about a three-year period. I was very interested in the psychology of contempt and derision, and Hitler never used language that was associated with fear in relationship to the Jews.”

“I'm thinking of a passage in the book of The Prophet Jeremiah where the Prophet is complaining to God. He's saying, 'You give me your word and I speak it, and everyone hates me and insults me.”

“I wrote a book on what's wrong with rights in 2020, and then this book came out.”

“Randall has written a book titled 'Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word.'”

“One is the continuing story of racism, which is an awful story; but the other story is encapsulated in the title of a great book of history by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom.”

“You wrote a book on the topic titled For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.”

“Of course, there's, I guess, a colleague of yours, Michael Sandel, with 'Tyranny of Merit.'”

“...that's one of the things that a friend of mine told me and it's actually in a book It's one in one of the grey Men books that those T those tasers are like especially the personal ones that people have...”

“...and now I know why I read the you know the the stolen Focus book for Yan Harry you know that's a really good book by and he says you know it's because in fighting my mind would be calm because my ADD I'm all over the place...”

“...and then you say uh I look at Big John I say do you believe that nose bone into the brain thing he wrote that in his book That's a he goes no...”

“They went back to the origin story in the books, which was 1930s LA, which to me was, you know, with Chinatown and everything else for such was so alluring, and, and, and as a kid growing up watching old movies, I was like, oh my God, I get to wear a fedora and you do an American accent?”

“Um, but you know, like I said, Anthony Hopkins was the chairman of the board at the time, so he'd be in and out and he'd just done, um, Shadowlands.”

“Carol Dweck, you might know her from her book 'Mindset,' decided to replicate these ego depletion studies.”

“In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'”

“In my line of work, you know, I'm fairly controversial because I wrote 'Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products' and then I wrote 'Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.'”

“I don’t know if you’ve read 'The Mind-Body Prescription.'”