The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Alain de Botton is a British author, intellectual and co-founder of the global organisation, 'The School of Life'. He is best known for the books, 'Essays in Love', 'How Proust Can Change Your Life', and 'The Consolations of Philosophy'.

You can purchase Alain's most recent book, 'A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from the School of Life', here:https://amzn.to/41zQJTF

This book, A Therapeutic Journey, it's really following the arc of what one could call mental breakdown or a mental crisis from the moment of its inception, the moment it strikes us through to the moment of recovery.

I've seen this book everywhere.

I walk into bookshops all the time and I just wish my book had the prominence.

I was in a Foils the other day and I think you've got some signed copies in there.

there's a book that this brings to mind by Octavia E. Butler, which is underrated. It's called Wild Seed. And not a lot of people have read it. It's a scifi book. It delves into this exact subject.

When I go in search of the origins of my broken heart, it is the sense of not being the priority to the two people who gave me life that creates a fracture in my feeling of what?

It's like our parents are like our first mirrors. And so my parents were really young when they had me. I mean, my mom was 17, 17, 18. She was 17 when she was pregnant. I think she was 18 by the time she had me. So youth on top of addiction.

The rejection was brutal. Something broke inside me. My grief was oceanic. I put it on a library shelf labeled unlovable and I tried to leave it there.

Don't judge a book by its cover. That's what Will Smith taught me.

If I got to 4pm every day I was like I made it I made it.

The book is called Red Cell.

The book is finally, my wife and I get to release the details of our operational history together.

And that is what the Red Cell is about. Oh, wow. It's about what we did together in the field as a tandem clandestine couple.

How we operated, how we worked together, how we managed our marriage and our operations and the team that we built around us. It was all very unique at the time and we're very proud of it.

You talk about how these other sort of lifestyle factors like community, friendships, relationships, stress, mental health, being sedentary, all of these things can contribute to heart problems.

In part your other book here that I have, I still can't pronounce this word, Piopi? Piopi diet. Piopi.

If I'm endeavoring to have good heart health, what should my daily routine in an optimal situation? What should my daily routine look like? If I follow the diet that you came up with, but also if I'm thinking through all of the potential things that can cause bad health.

And the last thing that from looking at your 21 day immunity plan is socializing.

How about some statins?

So on the statins issue and the cholesterol issue, traditionally, Steve, for decades, and even now, the one of the primary focus within medicine, within cardiology to combat heart disease was to get your so-called bad cholesterol LDL as low as possible.

And there's a line in that, which I mentioned in my book, where he said, you can be an obese, diabetic, sedentary smoker, but as long as your cholesterol is low enough, in other words to LDL cholesterol, you will not develop heart disease.

One study found that marathon runners experience a frequency of heart attacks and strokes similar to people who already have heart disease, suggesting too much exercise is harmful, which is in your book, Statin Free.

I will link your books below in the description for anybody that wants to read them. These two books in particular, the one that I can't pronounce, the P.O.P. P.O.P. Diet, a 21 day lifestyle plan, lose weight, feel great and drastically reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease and a statin free life, a revolutionary life plan for tackling heart disease without the use of statins.

You can purchase Dr Jill's book 'Whole Brain Living', here: https://amzn.to/4hMIVWT

this is from a book called Homicide by Martin Daly and Margo Wilson a husband and wife team who are two of the pioneers of evolutionary psychology.

What they did in the book is apply an evolutionary framework to study patterns of criminality and in a second now I'll unpack what that means.

So there are certain patterns of crime that happen in exactly the same way for the exact same reasons irrespective of which culture it happens in and irrespective of time period.

I used to write in people's books when people would bring me on tour a copy of Get the Guy.

I wrote a book called 24 Assets and I listed out all the different digital assets that are new economy assets that people could have things like brand and positioning, things like databases things like company culture is an asset now So I talk about how do you formalize those things

Josh Kaufman, the world-famous business expert, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Renowned for his practical approach to mastering business, productivity, and rapid-skill acquisition.

It's a real iconic book in the category, but why? Why did you feel compelled to write that book?

Because I can tell by the thickness of it, it took you a long time.

My goal in writing The Personal MBA was to explain business to someone who has no knowledge, no experience, no idea what's going on.

that's why I wrote the first law MBA

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You're telling me it's actually 20 hours is the key.

The narrative out on the market is you have to do 10,000 hours to learn anything.

Yes, or 40 minutes a day for about a month.

The TED talk for The First 20 Hours did very well and I think part of it has to do with it's something we all have in common right like wanting or needing to learn something necessary useful fun cool not really having a whole lot of time like we're busy people we're busy culturally and so there's a bit of a conflicting desire there of like yeah I want I want to learn this but I don't have a whole lot of capacity to spare here.