Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W40

“The other thing that I thought of as you were talking about your book though and your work, there was this psychologist in New York in the early 1970s named Herbert Freudenberger, and he worked all of these shifts 10 hours a day at a private practice, then he would go down to a free clinic where he would work,”

“Her new book is called Enough; she testified before the January 6th committee. When we come back, Cassidy Hutchinson joins us.”

“I am almost done with The Virgin Suicides, which I've never... never seen the movie!”

“Chris is also the author of a phenomenal best-selling book entitled 'Never Split the Difference.' In addition, he has taught courses in negotiation at Harvard, at Georgetown, and at the University of Southern California.”

“And the answer is secondary because the how or what question causes what we would refer to as deep thinking, slow thinking. Daniel Kahneman, behavioral economics, 'Thinking Fast and Slow.' Slow thinking is in-depth thinking.”

“Gianni Domenico got all the Western hostages out of Beirut in the mid '80s, wrote a book called 'Man Without a Gun,' negotiated in person, face-to-face with Hezbollah. The only guy that ever did that, got everybody out.”

“I love Essentialism by Greg McKeown. It's like a yearly read for me, right?”

“I read 4,000 Weeks recently; it's also a great book about that, kind of a similar concept. But, you know, those books help me center and realize, 'Wait a minute, just because I can try and do everything, it doesn't mean that's the right move.'”

“Yeah, it's a little sad because you read about—and the only reason I even know about these folks like Emperor Nero or whatever is because of Ryan Holiday writing books about stoicism, you know and in that having a resurgence.”

“I'll give an example of something that happened to me recently: I remember a quote from Robin Sharma, which I read when I was very young. He wrote a book called The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari; the quote read, 'ordinary people have big TVs; extraordinary people have big libraries.'”

“So I paid whatever she asked me to pay for them, and then there was one book, and she said, 'I've been looking for this book for years; I couldn't find it because it was like all these crease pages and hidden away,' and she said, 'Do you mind if I don't sell this to you? I said, 'Of course;”