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Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew...
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How to Live a Meaningful Life
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If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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The Power of Habit
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Hacking the Human Mind
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Junglekeeper
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What We Owe the Future
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Lost Connections
Chris recalled the title of the book while discussing grief, without expressing a clear endorsement.
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I seem to remember in Lost Connections, Johan Hari's book.
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Chris recalled the title of the book while discussing grief, without expressing a clear endorsement.
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I seem to remember in Lost Connections, Johan Hari's book.
Wired for Love
How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Chris described it as the best book on attachment he has ever listened to, noting that it currently exists only as an audiobook.
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Stan Tatkin did Your Brain on Love. Best book on attachment that I've ever listened to. Only exists as an audiobook.
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Chris described it as the best book on attachment he has ever listened to, noting that it currently exists only as an audiobook.
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Stan Tatkin did Your Brain on Love. Best book on attachment that I've ever listened to. Only exists as an audiobook.
Don't Tell Me I Can't
An Ambitious Homeschooler's Journey
The book illustrated how a 10yearold could start companies, learn finance and even buy a house, challenging traditional schooling models.
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And I'll just open up a question first, because it's completely reset this question for me, which is what is a 10yearold capable of? And this book kind of answers that question. So it's called
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The book illustrated how a 10yearold could start companies, learn finance and even buy a house, challenging traditional schooling models.
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And I'll just open up a question first, because it's completely reset this question for me, which is what is a 10yearold capable of? And this book kind of answers that question. So it's called Don't Tell Me I Can't, it's written by a 14yearold at the time called Cole Summers.
Meditations for Mortals
Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
Freya praised the book, saying it had been one of the best things she discovered recently and noted it had been released a few months earlier.
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Did you get his new one, Meditations for Mortals? Okay, it came out a couple of months ago. He's great... it was one of the best things that I got exposed to this year.
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Freya praised the book, saying it had been one of the best things she discovered recently and noted it had been released a few months earlier.
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Did you get his new one, Meditations for Mortals? Okay, it came out a couple of months ago. He's great... it was one of the best things that I got exposed to this year.
Bad Men
A Thriller
The book was cited as discussing how women can become socially isolated from male relatives who could otherwise protect them.
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You have a, that's certainly one of the concerns, I think in David Buss's book, Bad Men, about how women become socially isolated from brothers and uncles and fathers and grandfathers...
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The book was cited as discussing how women can become socially isolated from male relatives who could otherwise protect them.
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You have a, that's certainly one of the concerns, I think in David Buss's book, Bad Men, about how women become socially isolated from brothers and uncles and fathers and grandfathers who would have been able to step in if there was an abusive partner in the mix.
Supercommunicators
How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
The book was described as containing stories about supercommunicators, such as a CIA officer recruiting spies, and it was suggested as a resource for learning communication skills.
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And in the book, Super Communicators, there's all these stories about, like, a CIA officer who's, like, recruiting overseas spies and why the Big Bang Theory became such a hit because it was a flop wh...
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The book was described as containing stories about supercommunicators, such as a CIA officer recruiting spies, and it was suggested as a resource for learning communication skills.
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And in the book, Super Communicators, there's all these stories about, like, a CIA officer who's, like, recruiting overseas spies and why the Big Bang Theory became such a hit because it was a flop when they made the pilot.
If you just Google the power of habits, which was the first book I wrote or super communicators, you will definitely find my website.
The Science of Happily Ever After
What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love
They said the book outlined three statistical wishes that influence longterm relationship satisfaction and explained how most people's preferences reduce their dating pool.
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He said the book he wrote is called The Science of Happily Ever After and he talks about three wishes statistically speaking, describing how most people's preferences dramatically shr...
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They said the book outlined three statistical wishes that influence longterm relationship satisfaction and explained how most people's preferences reduce their dating pool.
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He said the book he wrote is called The Science of Happily Ever After and he talks about three wishes statistically speaking, describing how most people's preferences dramatically shrink the pool of potential partners.
The Seven Frequencies of Communication
The Hidden Language of Human Connection
Erwin McManus announced his newest book titled Seven Frequencies of Communication.
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My newest book is The Seven Frequencies of Communication.
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Erwin McManus announced his newest book titled Seven Frequencies of Communication.
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My newest book is The Seven Frequencies of Communication.
The Alchemist
A Modern Classic Fable of Spiritual Healing, Self-Discovery, and the Power of Dreams
The guest mentioned the novel while discussing how a single book can shape one's perspective, referring to it as an example of a story that stays with you.
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I remember there was a book, there's a line saying something like, all of us are going to die with a book half read on our bedside. ... the entire story of The Alchemist by Paulo Quel...
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The guest mentioned the novel while discussing how a single book can shape one's perspective, referring to it as an example of a story that stays with you.
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I remember there was a book, there's a line saying something like, all of us are going to die with a book half read on our bedside. ... the entire story of The Alchemist by Paulo Quela, right.
Wired for Love
How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship
Chris mentioned reading Stan Tatkin's "Your Brain on Love" which explores neurobiology of attachment and relationships.
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I was reading a book called Your Brain on Love by Stan Tatkin, Neurobiology of Attachment and Relationships.
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Chris mentioned reading Stan Tatkin's "Your Brain on Love" which explores neurobiology of attachment and relationships.
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I was reading a book called Your Brain on Love by Stan Tatkin, Neurobiology of Attachment and Relationships.
Trump
The Art of the Deal
The hosts cited Trump's book as an illustration of his aggressive rhetoric, noting a line about hitting back ten times harder when punched.
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The book, The Art of the Deal, where he says if someone punches you in the face, you hit them about 10 times harder.
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The hosts cited Trump's book as an illustration of his aggressive rhetoric, noting a line about hitting back ten times harder when punched.
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The book, The Art of the Deal, where he says if someone punches you in the face, you hit them about 10 times harder.
Spinozas God
Albert Einsteins Philosophy and Beliefs
He said he was working on a forthcoming book titled Einstein and Spinoza's God, indicating it would be part of his upcoming publications.
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I've got a bunch of books coming out. I've got a book on this. Well, I'm working on Einstein and Spinoza's God.
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He said he was working on a forthcoming book titled Einstein and Spinoza's God, indicating it would be part of his upcoming publications.
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I've got a bunch of books coming out. I've got a book on this. Well, I'm working on Einstein and Spinoza's God.
The Silk Roads
The Extraordinary History that created your World – Illustrated Edition
He described The Philosophical Silk Road as his next major multimedia project, presented as a forthcoming book.
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The big project is The Philosophical Silk Road, which is going to be my next big multimedia endeavor.
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He described The Philosophical Silk Road as his next major multimedia project, presented as a forthcoming book.
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The big project is The Philosophical Silk Road, which is going to be my next big multimedia endeavor.
The Fourth Turning
An American Prophecy
The hosts discussed the book, urging the guest to read it and describing its themes about historical cycles and a related thick volume on American history.
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Did you read that book by chance? No. Oh my gosh, please read it.
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The hosts discussed the book, urging the guest to read it and describing its themes about historical cycles and a related thick volume on American history.
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Did you read that book by chance? No. Oh my gosh, please read it.
It was a big thick book. It's basically 500 years of American history, AngloAmerican history, written by the same guys that wrote The Fourth Turning.
The Stasi Game
The sensational Cold War crime thriller
Will Storr's "The Stasis Game" examines how status functions as a universal driver in human behavior.
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author of many great books, but The Stasis Game. It's a really good book that Will wrote. In that book, he makes the case that status is a universal driver in all humans.
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Will Storr's "The Stasis Game" examines how status functions as a universal driver in human behavior.
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author of many great books, but The Stasis Game. It's a really good book that Will wrote. In that book, he makes the case that status is a universal driver in all humans.
Mary Churchill's War
The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
The speaker said they were reading Churchill's World WarII diaries and noted that attitudes taken for granted then would now be considered abhorrent.
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You know, I'm reading Churchill's diaries of World War II right now. And it's funny to the extent to which the stuff that he clearly takes for granted in describing things is now, would now be complet...
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The speaker said they were reading Churchill's World WarII diaries and noted that attitudes taken for granted then would now be considered abhorrent.
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You know, I'm reading Churchill's diaries of World War II right now. And it's funny to the extent to which the stuff that he clearly takes for granted in describing things is now, would now be completely abhorrent to our sensibilities.
A Whole New Mind
Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
It was highlighted as Dan Pink's most prescient book, noted for arguing that rightbrain skills would dominate the future.
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Dan Pink wrote about this. I think his most prescient book was A Whole New Mind, which is now two decades ago where he argued that like in a left brain world, right brainers were goin...
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It was highlighted as Dan Pink's most prescient book, noted for arguing that rightbrain skills would dominate the future.
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Dan Pink wrote about this. I think his most prescient book was A Whole New Mind, which is now two decades ago where he argued that like in a left brain world, right brainers were going to dominate the future.
Psycho-Cybernetics
Updated and Expanded (The Psycho-Cybernetics Series)
He recalled it as likely the first real book he ever engaged with, noting its concept that humans are like servomechanisms guided away from a target.
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And I think that's, Maxwell Maltz is probably, was one of the first real books that I ever engaged in.
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He recalled it as likely the first real book he ever engaged with, noting its concept that humans are like servomechanisms guided away from a target.
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And I think that's, Maxwell Maltz is probably, was one of the first real books that I ever engaged in.
It's called PsychoCybernetics.
The Gap and The Gain
The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
A selfhelp book that teaches focusing on progress rather than on perceived gaps, a concept the speakers found memorable and useful for reframing problems.
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have you ever heard of the book called The Gap and The Gain? Benjamin Nardy. So there's one line in that, that stuck with me and I still think about, and it's kind of a semi life hack...
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A selfhelp book that teaches focusing on progress rather than on perceived gaps, a concept the speakers found memorable and useful for reframing problems.
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have you ever heard of the book called The Gap and The Gain? Benjamin Nardy. So there's one line in that, that stuck with me and I still think about, and it's kind of a semi life hack related to this.
The Courage to Be Disliked
The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
A Japanese selfhelp book summarizing Adlerian psychology, presented as a key reading that challenged conventional views on personal growth.
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George got me a book a few years ago called The Courage to Be Disliked. And it's basically a summary written by Parable about Adler versus Freud.
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A Japanese selfhelp book summarizing Adlerian psychology, presented as a key reading that challenged conventional views on personal growth.
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George got me a book a few years ago called The Courage to Be Disliked. And it's basically a summary written by Parable about Adler versus Freud.
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