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Today's guest also co-wrote a book with another Daily Stood Podcast Admiral Stavritis. They wrote a book called 2034, which is a novel about the future of warfare.

think like the monks launch, which is a great book.

Think Like a Monk has been a bestseller.

You can check out Think Like a Monk

For me it's the difference though, monk see as the monk mind and the monkey mind. So the monkey mind is considered to the part of our minds that is like jumping from branch to branch and just being distracted by different fruits on every tree. Whereas the monk mind is focused intentional and aware at all times.

I'm not expecting anyone to read the book and then give up all their possessions and live with nothing but I'm actually saying that this mindset has actually allowed me to be more grateful for what I do have. It's allowed me to be a better user of what I do have. Sure. And and a better advocate for it.

The book 'The Tools' by Phil Stutz and Barry Michaels, the deathbed exercise...

His most recent, The Sweet Spot, the pleasures of suffering and the search for meaning which explores how effort, struggle and difficulty can in the right context lead to the joys of mastery and flow.

His book on suffering and discipline. Very much connected to the book I just wrote.

But this book How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes is so important because I think not only are we trying not to be assholes, but it's also really important that we model not being an asshole.

It's a really great book. It's filled with reporting, but then it's also just super accessible and practical.

You can grab How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes at the Painted Ports or anywhere books are sold.

the whole idea of how do we deal with our kids negative emotions is something I talk about a lot in my book

in looking into the research on like how to raise not you know how to raise good kids you ultimately find that it does a lot more than that

and I think that it's very very important not to run from the past or forget it or fight it but recognize no matter what happened I made it

He has a book Make Your Bed the little things that can change your life and maybe even the world which is comes out of that talk he did.

One of the things I just love about his books is their short, their simple and their earnest right?

It's all these kind of slogans from the seals, from people performance. Just kind of classic hard one wisdom that when you hear the idea that no easy day is yesterday those who dare win you know fortune favors the pulled when you hear these expressions you think yeah yeah yeah but somebody some body generations of people proved that idea they proved it on the battlefield they proved it in the classroom they proved it in their personal life they proved it suffering and he really explores what those things mean but in a really memorable way that I think sticks with you.

I really do love these books I recommend them all the time they are absolutely awesome

It's a it's a little thing and it gets you started to go I can do this I'm or you identify as someone who reads right like the amount of people I meet who are like I hadn't read a book since high school And then they read a book like this or one of my books and they're like oh I thought I hated books. I really just hated the books. I was assigned in school And then they then you can you can change your identity to be someone who reads

And then the other thing I think to look at when you're thinking about the relationship between creativity and walks, if you've read Mason Curry's book, Daily Rituals, like almost every page in the book for every famous artist, philosopher, thinker, composer, whatever, I would say 50% of them have some kind of walking process.

the perennial question is what are you going to do about it

I think one of the first books that I read was Can't Hurt Me and so that one was like super intense.

Just kind of like when I was in the gym struggling I got to remember that he would run like 100 miles on like broken key and stuff.

The other being Never Split the Difference by Chris Boss which is also an incredible book.

You can grab signed copies of his book Finding Meaning and the Finding Meaning Workbook at the Painted Porch

You can check out his best-selling book, Finding Meaning, the sixth stage of grief

I was reading this book 'Hunt, Gather, Parent,' which I loved about...instead of, you know, 'um, telling your kid do this and do this and you need to clean your room,' instead of 'you need to clean your room,' it's 'let's see how many toys we can get in the hamper in 30 seconds,' like how many things can you turn into a game...

I see them with their kids, playground was don't turn; I make sure and you're gonna be careful, you're gonna hurt yourself on that, and I see the kid look at them like well why are we here if it's so dangerous.

I have a lot of friends who taught their kids to read using a book called Teacher Child to Read in 100 easy lessons and they swear by it they've had great results and I couldn't I maybe got through two and a half lessons because I'm just not a workbook person

if you read david brook's book The Second Mountain