Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W29

“So what's, I think, really fascinating about this, there's a guy named Bruce Feiler and he wrote a book called Life is in the Transitions, Mastering Change at Any Age, and he basically crisscrossed the United States for a year or two and just collected hundreds of stories from people who had been through a major life change, whether that”

“I have a book called How economics can save the world which I recommend to everyone have a look and maybe you'll learn something”

“I personally know at least a dozen people who became vegetarian after they read his book, Animal Liberation.”

“What are you–is that Nancy Drew over here?”

“I'm I'm finishing this book uh called billionaire Boogeyman that a friend of mine a comedian Todd Parker wrote and I'm actually reading it going like this could actually be a really good [ __ ] movie”

“That's one of the things Pinker is right about in 'The Blank Slate'—violent deaths in tribal societies in pre-modernity were way higher than the average violent deaths of a European male in the 20th century. So, to some extent, this is a natural state.”

“She said, 'I'm translating Don Juan of Lord Byron's in my head.' Now the poem is 17,000 lines. He said, 'Okay, I'll give you a piece of paper and a pen, and I'll come back in the morning.'”

“in a book called The Country School of Tomorrow a Rockefeller advisor named Frederick Taylor Gates who was a Grand Puba in the Geb he in this book from 1916 says the follow”

“you know I like the idea of chesterton's fence when you find a fence figure out what it was for before you tear it down”

“We're gonna have another berserk one coming out soon as well It's very inside baseball guys Basically Carl pays us to talk about Comics once a month like a job”

“But your book really opened my eyes to some of, frankly, some of the worst of humanity. It's just running roughshod over human rights out there.”

“That's what he said, that was a fact of the industry, which is true, but I think the reason that's true and the reason why parenting books are, with the exception of say 'What to Expect When You're Expecting,' not great sellers is that it's insane to read about some problem you might have 22 years from now, right?”

“The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including 'Sapiens', 'Homo Deus', and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.”

“The following is a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari, a historian, philosopher, and author of several highly acclaimed, highly influential books, including 'Sapiens', 'Homo Deus', and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century'.”

“The study I'd like to briefly discuss exemplifies the groundwork that led to the discovery of growth mindset, authored by Dr. Carol Dweck and her colleague Claudia Mueller. The title of this important paper is 'Praise for Intelligence Can Undermine Children's Motivation and Performance.' This finding should be surprising: praise for intelligence can indeed undermine motivation and performance.”