Modern Wisdom

There's a great doctor who unfortunately passed by the name of dr. John Sarno Who is actually a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor from NYU that really pioneered The the knowledge of how back pain and pain in general is related to our mental health and While not everything in the book is a hundred percent accurate because there were some theories in there as to why it happens or how It happens. Maybe they're not perfect, but the general thought behind The idea of our mental health impacting how we feel physically is so strong And I really recommend folks to read his book one is called The Divided Mind. Another one is called healing back pain Really great reads I recommend them to patients so often and the number one thing that patients say when they come in for their follow-up visit is I read the first chapter and that was me and I started thinking about how that could be happening and Right away my paint went down a certain level of threshold. That's amazing if I could do that without medications That's such a win and some people might say oh well that's placebo Oh, man, if I'm getting placebo off reading a few pages of a book, I'll take that placebo all day

There's a great doctor who unfortunately passed by the name of dr. John Sarno Who is actually a physical medicine and rehabilitation doctor from NYU that really pioneered The the knowledge of how back pain and pain in general is related to our mental health and While not everything in the book is a hundred percent accurate because there were some theories in there as to why it happens or how It happens. Maybe they're not perfect, but the general thought behind The idea of our mental health impacting how we feel physically is so strong And I really recommend folks to read his book one is called the divided mind. Another one is called Healing Back Pain Really great reads I recommend them to patients so often and the number one thing that patients say when they come in for their follow-up visit is I read the first chapter and that was me and I started thinking about how that could be happening and Right away my paint went down a certain level of threshold. That's amazing if I could do that without medications That's such a win and some people might say oh well that's placebo Oh, man, if I'm getting placebo off reading a few pages of a book, I'll take that placebo all day

Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited for instance makes me think when you're talking about about that Is there anything else that comes to mind the e-myth was huge for me?

I remember specifically reading a passage and it said It was giving an example of somebody who ran a bakery and they were staying up all night Baking and then they're running covered in flour and trying to peck into the cash register You know try and serve customers and it was just such a perfect picture of where I was at in that moment that I was Just trying to do everything. I was trying to hold up the world and so pain plus reading Success, right? You need the pain

like Dante and Beatrice and Heathcliff and Kathy may be mutually limerent at different times, but not the same time from Wuthering Heights.

Yeah, so I wrote a book, Rethinking Sex, A Provocation.

It came out last spring and it was basically about our sexual culture and our relationship culture and questions of consent and sexual ethics.

But this is one thing that I spent a lot of time thinking about and writing about in the book actually, this idea that the feminist movement kind of shifted over time in a way that I don't necessarily think was positive.

I think it's referenced in Thank You for Smoking, where they're smoking in space and there's an issue with product placement. How does it make sense to have cigarettes smoking in space after sex and whatever? It'll cost us two lines of Spackle.

he assigned a book by two of the pioneers of evolutionary psychology, a husband and wife team, Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, where the book is titled Homicide, where they looked at patterns of criminality around the world and across time periods and demonstrated that there are some very, very elegant, parsimonious, theoretically coherent ways by which you could explain these using an evolutionary lens.

My mind was blown. That's where I had my epiphany.

Charles Dickens writes about kids on the streets, Oliver Twist. There's the Tale of Two Cities, revolutions, French Revolution comes along.

I actually first discovered this from Amanda Ripley from her book unthinkable which man i'd love to talk you should podcast Amanda Ripley she's that book's amazing unthinkable

Bros was this romcom, but Amazon did this with Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power. They frontran the fact that it was a very diverse cast.

There's a lot of problems with the most recent Lord of the Rings, which it's like a dunk fest if you just search Lord of the Rings online.

I think I've been saying this all over the place, but my first biggest frustration with Rings of Power is Galadriel.

I am a really big Lord of the Rings fan, just huge Lord of the Rings fan.

You have the comparison between Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones.

It's this amazing story by Ursula Gwynn and basically the main character Ged releases this shadow, this he spends most of the book running from in different creative ways. And at some point he turns around and embraces it and names it.

The Wizard of Ersi by Ursula Gwynn. It's one of my favourite fiction books.