Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2023-W51

“You wrote in the book that your father had a big influence on your life. What lessons have you learned about life from your father?”

“This is what I was thinking, this is what it reminded me of, this is Sax's personal Vietnam, this is oh yeah, it's a great scene, great scene, love that that's a great scene from Fight Club, that's Meatloaf, right?”

“And it also sort of shows, since it's so fragile, how fragile our economies really are because I've heard the expression 'data is the new oil,' but I think you say in the book, 'The pumps and pipes are all powered by semiconductors.'”

“The definition of neediness comes from Mark Manson's first book, 'Models', which is like an ethical pickup artistry guide. Neediness occurs when you place a higher priority on what others think of you than on what you think of yourself.”

“I remember early in the year I was talking about how I was reading that book 'Risin' Kill First' about the early days of Israel and the Mossad, too! It gets up to like 2012! But once it got morally ambivalent, I got out!”

“And I don't think we need to send mail out copies of how democracies die by those two professors. I don't, I don't think, I don't think we can get people to read how democracies die. Yeah, I don't know that, I don't know that mailing copies is a good idea.”

“But, I've been reading The Nine by Chuck Colman. It's a recent book that's out and it's very good.”

“The young man who wrote about it called his book 'My Jihad,' describing how he realized his true struggle was with himself.”

“It's my third in the financial area, one that I think you guys would appreciate; this one is called 'The Holy Grail of Investing.'”

“I was saying to you in that interview that, hey Ryan, you know I've just started writing my first book, any tips? You gave some really good advice.”

“The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and another guy who are Stanford professors. Basically, the idea is that you imagine your life three to five years in the future if you continued down your current path, and you write out what that”

“I took everything I learned and developed a program for my patients, which became the Galveston Diet.”

“That's called 'The New Menopause,' and you can pre-order that wherever you get your books.”

“This Christmas, join Hallow's Christmas prayer challenge, Advent with C.S. Lewis, for the 25 days leading up to Christmas.”

“I say, hey man, I actually appreciate your input, but I barely read, like you're laughing, I'm dead serious; I haven't read a book since ninth grade. The last book I read was in ninth grade, the story about the unauthorized story about Phil; that was the last time I read a book.”