Modern Wisdom

Camus writes The Rebel, which is one of his later works.

He has this book called The Rebel, which is by far his most impenetrable work. It is generally very, very interesting.

Right. And she taught me that male testosterone levels are mediated by the fertility of the women in their local ecology.

It's your brain, This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill.

One of the most impactful books that I recommend to every entrepreneur is a book called How to Get Rich It is by a guy named Felix Dennis who is a magazine publishing mogul British guy and the cover and the title are extremely douchey, so It's called How to Get Rich and it's him Looking like wearing some very posh clothing and he's in this big throne And he's laughing maniacally and so you look at this book and you go fuck this guy. I don't want to read this but it's fascinating because he is a guy who really came from nothing and Started selling Bruce Lee posters at the time. Bruce Lee was really popular I think in the 60s or 70s and somehow Stumbled his incompetent way into owning this massive publishing empire and making hundreds of millions of dollars and he starts the book by Saying look I'm gonna teach you How to Get Rich I'm gonna tell you what I did and tell you my cheat codes, but you actually don't want to get rich. I'm actually miserable I'm old and miserable and I wish that I'd become a poet when I was 35 because I had enough money to do so

So Felix Dennis has a book called How to Get Rich, which is ...

Her first book, Life Of Dad, was such a game changer for me in terms of sort of explaining, how I see the role of men and fatherhood in a child's development.

that's why I wrote my book and that's why we have to get this information out there about dads because what he was feeling is completely and utterly normal

and that's written for fathers because I wanted them to have a book that wasn't about supporting mum that wasn't about what's happening to mum there was about what's happening to them because I think that's really important

And then later on in the book, a hundred million dollar leads, I talk about the rule of 100 on steroids, which is something that I learned from a guy who owned 13 or 14 really successful gyms and he called it open to goal.

100 Million dollar leads the way that I wanted to exemplify and meta show demonstrate that the concepts of the book work today and will work tomorrow and will work in a hundred years is because humans haven't changed and so the process of making known remains the same because our hard wiring is the same so you don't need to know the instagram hack because my first ever advertisement was on facebook and I don't do anything on facebook now and it doesn't matter and as soon as youtube and podcast and all those things die the principles remain the same despite the platforms changing and so that is what I wrote each of these books because I want them to be around in a hundred years and that's why I spent so long on them but I'm very proud of the book and I think it's my best work to date

I seem to remember a line from one of David's books maybe the evolution of I can't remember where he said that the single biggest predictor of extramarital sex is premarital sex.

There's a book called The Evolution of Desire and in it he explains how men have an area of our brains which give us reward if we look at something that's sexual.

Plus a new book. And the new book came out, yeah. So that new book came out on September 17th. So Anxiety Rx sold over 100,000 copies so far, which is pretty happy about that. Highest rated anxiety book on amazon.com as far as I know when I checked about a month ago. I think it has an 82% fivestar rating, which for a selfhelp book is pretty good. And it just gives people a very different idea of what their anxiety is so that they have some sense that they're not fighting this indomitable giant and not making any progress at all.

my book is on Amazon. It's called Anxiety Rx.

really good book you should read chris is called Factfulness by hands rossling i don't know if you read it

he talks about he talks about overlapping overlapping distribution and on average also rich reviews talks about it and he's just like distributions overlap and we're talking on average

really good book you should read chris is called Factfulness by hands rossling i don't know if you read it

he talks about overlapping overlapping distribution and on average also rich reviews talks about it and he's just like distributions overlap

he did a thing called the gap-minder test where he took i think he took 12 answers yeah 12 12 questions about like vaccines education poverty disaster zones like things that people think they know a lot about

David Goggins, Never Finished, and his first book, Can't Hurt Me.

After this podcast, I probably won't do another one for a very long time and I did my book came out on the 6th. It's now the 16th. I did my 10 days of the book and now it's done and it's going back to the lab.

I wasn't gonna put the blurbs in the audio book, but he was like, hey, man, I got a studio right here. I'll blast it out, send it over to you and we'll get it done.

The Rock's idea for him to do the blurb. So then I got Joe Rogan and I got my mom to read the blurbs. That's how the idea came about. It was actually The Rock's idea for him to do the blurb.

the ape who understood the universe by steve stewart uh the moral animal by robert wright the happiness hypothesis by jonathan height um richard reeves of boys and men uh billy no mates another good book

the guy cites, uh, Steve Stewart Williams again, saying, as Steve noted in The Ape that Understood the Universe, it is more common, not just among humans, but in nature writ large for females to be the sex that invests more in children.

He paints a bunch of characters who are meant to be like absurd men... Camus says, well, imagine Sisyphus happy, right?

The Myth of Sisyphus in Camus' writing is meant to symbolize this kind of, it's meant to stand in for us all... Camus says we must imagine Sisyphus happy.

look up The Goodness Paradox.

I wrote about that when I was discussing Richard Wrangham's book. He's the Harvard evolutionary biologist. He wrote a great book called The Goodness Paradox, which looks at how the ability to kill at scale is uniquely human and how cooperation can lead to mass conflict.

There's a third possibility which almost never gets discussed, but which was laid out in a very good book by Jeffrey Miller 25 years ago called The Mating Mind in which he says, actually, this looks awfully like a sexually selected feature.

The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller.

I think it's kind of ironic, you know, some of the critics of my own book, Get Married, have kind of made the point, well, how can Wilcox, you know, argue for marriage if it's so hard for me as a talented young woman to find a good guy?

I talk in the book about there being one woman, she was in a subway... her boyfriend stood up and protected her. That was a bookmark moment for her.

My book has been treated very nicely by the New York Times, you know, five different pieces on my book, you know, multiple pieces on her book and the Times, the Atlantic as well.

Brad Wilcox, in his book, Get Married, he talks about there are certain, like, highrisk environments that you can find yourself in if you're in a relationship.

That's from the book Dataclysm by Christian Rudder.

I don't know if you've read this wonderful book by Christian Rudder called Dataclism.

my first book, the tipping point, my last book, Revenge of the Tipping Point. ... the simple idea, the spread of ideas can usefully be understood as similar to the spread of disease that the same contagious principles that govern epidemics of disease govern epidemics of ideas.

I have a new book out in paperback Revenge of the Tipping Point.

We're talking about two books written 25 years apart. My first book, the tipping point, my last book, Revenge of the Tipping Point.

I have a new book out in paperback Revenge of the Tipping Point.

You need to have The Expectation Effect by David Robson.

There's a great book called The Expectation Effect by David Robson, just popular science book. It's about four years old now.

He looked at a study where they did exactly this. They gave a cohort of people, two different groups. One group has a particular genetic predisposition that allows them to blow off CO2 more efficiently. And that means that for VO2 max work, they have, uh, they're much more effective. Other group does not have this mutation. They mixed them up and split them into two parts. So each group had equal proportions of people with and without, you can see where I'm going to go.

And then the hard part for me was to make it catchy. I decided with this book, I was aiming to be catchy because I wanted the little examples to stick in your head for years afterwards.

And then what you see in this little tiny hundred page book that you can read in 90 minutes or less, is me trying to take everything I learned about this subject and compressing it into short, memorable little fables.

Did you read Derek Sibber's book, Useful Not True?

Plato writes The Republic, a political treatise, and later he writes The Laws, which are much less concerned with what makes a good ruler.

Plato in his book, The Republic, you know, a couple of thousand years ago, more than that, wrote about it.

my book is like Safe, An Attachment-Informed Guide to Building More Secure Relationships and Coming Home to Yourself and Others. And there's a part in the book where I talk about hugging my partner and feeling like I was home.

Beyond buying the book Safe by Jessica Baum, where does somebody start practically with moving through this?

She's got a new one out called Safe. You should bring her on the show.