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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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He noted that HannahArendt discussed the topic in her book The Banality of Evil.
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and Hannah Arendt wrote about this in, in the banality of evil and in other places that Marxism ...
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and Hannah Arendt wrote about this in, in the banality of evil and in other places that Marxism ...
Split-Second Persuasion
The Ancient Art and New Science of Changing Minds
He described Flipnosis as his first book, which examined the limits of persuasion and how far one could persuade anyone to do anything.
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That was my first book, actually, Flipnosis.
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He described Flipnosis as his first book, which examined the limits of persuasion and how far one could persuade anyone to do anything.
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That was my first book, actually, Flipnosis.
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The Good Psychopath's Guide To Success
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He promoted The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success as a guide for becoming more assertive and successful, cowritten with AndyMcNabb.
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If you want to become a little bit more assertive and successful, you might want to check out The Good Psychopath's Guide To Success, which I wrote with Andy McNabb.
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He promoted The Good Psychopath's Guide to Success as a guide for becoming more assertive and successful, cowritten with AndyMcNabb.
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If you want to become a little bit more assertive and successful, you might want to check out The Good Psychopath's Guide To Success, which I wrote with Andy McNabb.
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness
The host described the author's book as a collection of nineteen distinct perspectives on consciousness, each presented as a short chapter exploring different theories and stories.
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And 19 ways to look at consciousness will be linked in the show notes below as well.
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The host described the author's book as a collection of nineteen distinct perspectives on consciousness, each presented as a short chapter exploring different theories and stories.
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Book 19 ways of looking at consciousness. Not not in the L.A. way. Subtitled not in the L.A. way.
Building a Second Brain
A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
The hosts mentioned Tiago Forte's book as an example of a published work on creating an external second brain for knowledge management.
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Ali Abdaal, Tiago Forte, these guys literally wrote the book. He wrote a book called Building a Second Brain.
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The hosts mentioned Tiago Forte's book as an example of a published work on creating an external second brain for knowledge management.
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Ali Abdaal, Tiago Forte, these guys literally wrote the book. He wrote a book called Building a Second Brain.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
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The conversation referenced reading Winston Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as a notable historical book.
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The conversation referenced reading Winston Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare as a notable historical book.
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The Logic of Life
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Harford explained that his book explored rational choice theory applied to addiction, discrimination, crime and other seemingly illogical phenomena, and that he would not write it today.
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Harford explained that his book explored rational choice theory applied to addiction, discrimination, crime and other seemingly illogical phenomena, and that he would not write it today.
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And in fact, I wrote a whole book called The Logic of Life, which is all about the different ways in which rational choice theory could be used to understand things like addiction and discrimination, crime, all kinds of things that don't seem to have any logic.
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
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Randy described his book as written for both a general audience and professionals, packed with case studies and extensive references.
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You know, my book is Good Reasons for Bad Feelings. It's written for a general audience. There's lots of case studies. And some of the examples that you've heard here are in there and a lot of other things are in there. I also wrote it for psychiatrists and psychologists because if you write a big fancy academic book, and this book has 800 references, but they're in tiny print, so you never see them.
Mate
The speakers suggested that the book Mate, coauthored by Tucker Max and Jeffrey Miller, would be valuable for women to read in order to improve the dating market for everyone.
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Evolutionary Ideas
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Sam explained that his book "Evolutionary Ideas" explored how ideas evolve like biological solutions and gave examples such as biomimicry, pattern recognition and the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing.
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the path I take in the book Evolutionary Ideas is more so that ideas also evolve, just as we see biological evolution that adapts and some solutions prevail and some become extinct.
The Power of Moments
Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
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The hosts noted that Chip and Dan Heath authored "The Power of Moments," a book that explains how memorable experiences are deliberately designed.
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they're... Chip and Dan Heath they found it for The Power of Moments
12 Rules for Life
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He referred to a "12 rules for life type thing" as a possible book idea for future projects.
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He referred to a "12 rules for life type thing" as a possible book idea for future projects.
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The Emperor's New Drugs
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He noted that Irving Kirsch authored The Emperor's New Drugs, a book criticizing the effectiveness of antidepressants.
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She described it as a forthcoming playbook released in January that compiles research and protocols for health, training, and recovery.
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