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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Steven Bartlett is a British entrepreneur, investor, and author. He’s the founder of Flight Story – a media company – and Flight Fund, an investment fund backing the next generation of category-defining businesses. He created The Diary Of A CEO to share the unfiltered pages of the personal diaries o...

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9 Months That Count Forever

Jessie Inchauspe

Mentioned 4 months ago

Pregnancy Diet Expert: The Pregnancy Diet That Rewrites DNA! Why Pregnant Moms Are Being Lied To!

Jessie described the book as a practical guide that distills scientific research into four simple trimesterbytrimester hacks to help parents optimise nutrition and reduce glucose spikes during pregnancy.

nine months that count forever how your pregnancy diet shapes your baby's future

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The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life cover

The Diary of a CEO

Steven Bartlett

Mentioned 4 months ago

Uber CEO: At Uber, If You Don’t Perform, You’re Out! Uber Was Losing $3b A Year

The host announced the book and encouraged listeners to purchase it as a resource for personal and professional growth.

Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook

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Alone on the Wall

Alex Honnold

Mentioned 5 months ago

The Greatest Climber Alive: I Shouldn't Have Attempted That Climb!

The host mentioned that Alex Honnold is the bestselling author of "Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure."

You can purchase Alex's book, 'Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure', here: https://linkly.link/2ajgw

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness cover

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Mentioned 5 months ago

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

He said he had written the book focusing on teen mental health and that it was released in 2024, highlighting how social media fuels anxiety and erodes attention.

yeah, because I wrote a whole book called The Anxious Generation, focusing on teen mental health. That was the mystery that popped up in the mid 2000s.

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The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

Mentioned 5 months ago

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

He explained that his first book argued happiness comes from within, drawing on ancient wisdom and modern psychology to show that fulfillment is internal rather than external.

My first book, The Happiness Hypothesis, addresses that question very directly. It says happiness comes from within, using ancient ideas from Buddhism and Stoicism and modern positive psychology.

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The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience cover

The 5 Resets

Dr. Aditi Nerurkar M.D.

Mentioned 5 months ago

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

She said the book helps rewire the brain and body for less stress and more resilience, aimed at anyone struggling with overwhelm and burnout.

The Five Resets, which is a book we talked about before on the show, Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience. It is for anyone who is struggling with stress, overwhelm, and burnout.

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The Amazing Generation

Jonathan Haidt

Mentioned 5 months ago

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

He described the new illustrated book for ages eight to thirteen that explains the ideas of the Anxious Generation in a fun way and noted the enthusiastic Amazon reviews.

Jonathan, you've just written this book, which is now out, called The Amazing Generation. It has beautiful illustrations, it's for ages eight to 13, and the Amazon reviews are full of parents saying their kids love it.

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The Digital Addiction Detox to Escape the Overload

The Bot Brains

Mentioned 5 months ago

Brain Rot Emergency: These Internal Documents Prove They’re Controlling You!

She mentioned the upcoming book titled Bot Brain, subtitled 'How to Stay Calm, Resilient, and Human in the Face of AI', as her current project.

It's called Bot Brain, How to Stay Calm, Resilient, and Human in the Face of AI.

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series) cover

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Stephen R. Covey

Mentioned 5 months ago

World No.1 Divorce Lawyer: This Is A Sign You’ll Divorce In 10 Years!

He referenced it alongside The Power of Habit as a book he might see on a table, implying its relevance to personal effectiveness.

If you walk in and you see a book, you know, the power of habit by Doring or the seven habits of highly effective people, I would go, oh, look at Stephen. He's still so successful.

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How to Stay in Love

James J. Sexton

Mentioned 5 months ago

World No.1 Divorce Lawyer: This Is A Sign You’ll Divorce In 10 Years!

The host noted that the book had been on the market longer, was in its fourth printing and had performed well over time.

So How to Stay in Love has been out longer. So it's done quite well over the period of time. It's in its fourth printing right now.

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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business cover

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Mentioned 5 months ago

World No.1 Divorce Lawyer: This Is A Sign You’ll Divorce In 10 Years!

He mentioned the book as an example of something he might see on a shelf, linking it to habits and personal improvement.

If you walk in and you see a book, you know, the power of habit by Doring or the seven habits of highly effective people, I would go, oh, look at Stephen. He's still so successful.

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The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Mentioned 5 months ago

World No.1 Divorce Lawyer: This Is A Sign You’ll Divorce In 10 Years!

He quoted the book when discussing authenticity, noting that it speaks about children as living arrows.

Cahill Gibran in The Prophet, when he's talking about children, he says that children are living arrows.

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NEIL STRAUSS

The Game

Undercover in the Secret Society of Pick-Up Artists (en ANGLAIS)

It was the first book the podcast host ever read cover-to-cover; he found it taught him a lot about human psychology and its significant role in life, business, and relationships.

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Your book was the first book I ever read without moving from the moment I opened it.

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It was the first book the podcast host ever read cover-to-cover; he found it taught him a lot about human psychology and its significant role in life, business, and relationships.

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Your book was the first book I ever read without moving from the moment I opened it.

But for me what the book taught me was a lot about human psychology and that human psychology was even quite a significant thing in life, business and everything in between and relationships.

The Truth: Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind Cover

Neil Strauss

The Truth

Sex, Love, Commitment, and the Puzzle of the Male Mind

The podcast host found it changed his life, providing him with a mental model to redefine how he viewed relationships; the author stated he wrote it because many people struggle with relationships.

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And then I read your second book some years later called The Truth and again this book changed my life but for very different reasons. For reasons centered around the fact that I was...

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The podcast host found it changed his life, providing him with a mental model to redefine how he viewed relationships; the author stated he wrote it because many people struggle with relationships.

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And then I read your second book some years later called The Truth and again this book changed my life but for very different reasons. For reasons centered around the fact that I was struggling in relationships, I was struggling with commitment, I thought that our relationship was prison and your book, The Truth gave me an olive branch that maybe I was wrong and it showed me sort of a... give me a mental model to redefine how I saw relationships.

There's a lot of people struggling with relationships. Yeah, I mean that's why I wrote it.

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Kōbō Abe

Women In The Dunes

Mentioned as a great book and movie, with a quote highlighting the idea that humans are wired for tribal existence and are still not used to meeting strangers.

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He has this great line and he says like he goes we're wired for this tribal existence and the city is the first place where we had to meet a stranger that's not an enemy and we're still not used to th...

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Mentioned as a great book and movie, with a quote highlighting the idea that humans are wired for tribal existence and are still not used to meeting strangers.

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He has this great line and he says like he goes we're wired for this tribal existence and the city is the first place where we had to meet a stranger that's not an enemy and we're still not used to that strangers are scary

The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everday Life Cover

Gary S. Becker

The Economics of Life

From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everday Life

It was read by the podcast guest when he was 24. He described it as unreal, changing his reality by showing how topics like poverty could be understood through numbers, graphs, and models rather than just stories.

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One, I read a book by Gary Becker, The Economics of Life When I was 24 years old And he would take any given topic like poverty Something that would be non...

— Episode: The Anti-Ageing Expert: "I Have The Erec...

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It was read by the podcast guest when he was 24. He described it as unreal, changing his reality by showing how topics like poverty could be understood through numbers, graphs, and models rather than just stories.

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One, I read a book by Gary Becker, The Economics of Life When I was 24 years old And he would take any given topic like poverty Something that would be non...

It's just like this social phenomena that I would have previously heard someone tell me a story about And he would break them down using economics And I thought, that's unreal A world understood through numbers and graphs and models

Not through stories, no one's going to tell me any story, they're just going to lay this out Now I realize that there are limitations of course to those things Like stories are embedded in those to some extent

Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD Cover

Daniel G. Amen

Healing ADD Revised Edition

The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD

This book, mentioned in passing, was described as containing information on the "ring of fire ADD." The speaker notes that ADD and ADHD are used interchangeably to describe the same condition.

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And if you read my book Healing ADD I talk about the ring of fire ADD So ADD and ADHD are different terms For the same thing

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This book, mentioned in passing, was described as containing information on the "ring of fire ADD." The speaker notes that ADD and ADHD are used interchangeably to describe the same condition.

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And if you read my book Healing ADD I talk about the ring of fire ADD So ADD and ADHD are different terms For the same thing

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Before 25: Change Your Developing Mind for Real World Success Cover

Jesse Payne

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Before 25

Change Your Developing Mind for Real World Success

This book, written by the speaker's son-in-law, opens with a story about his brain scan and the experience of meeting with Dr. Amen. It's mentioned as a personal anecdote demonstrating the impact of brain scans.

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He actually wrote a book called Change Your Brain Before 25 And he opens the book With the story of his scan And him sitting with me

— Episode: The ADHD Doctor: “I’ve Scanned 250,000 B...

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This book, written by the speaker's son-in-law, opens with a story about his brain scan and the experience of meeting with Dr. Amen. It's mentioned as a personal anecdote demonstrating the impact of brain scans.

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He actually wrote a book called Change Your Brain Before 25 And he opens the book With the story of his scan And him sitting with me

Dad, If You Die, Would We Have To Tell People?: Conversations With My Kids Cover

Benjamin Lee Todd

Dad, If You Die, Would We Have To Tell People?

Conversations With My Kids

The speaker mentions a book with this title in reference to their physical health being affected by stress, even when their conscious mind was denying it.

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my body as the famous book goes held the score

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The speaker mentions a book with this title in reference to their physical health being affected by stress, even when their conscious mind was denying it.

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my body as the famous book goes held the score

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Cover

Charlie Mackesy

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

The speaker mentions purchasing and enjoying this illustrated book, highlighting the horse character's wisdom and the courage of asking for help.

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Have you read the book The Fox, the Mole, the Horse The Boy and the Horse I bought it last week It's upstairs in my bag Wonderful So great It's a great little book A great big book Although very few w...

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The speaker mentions purchasing and enjoying this illustrated book, highlighting the horse character's wisdom and the courage of asking for help.

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Have you read the book The Fox, the Mole, the Horse The Boy and the Horse I bought it last week It's upstairs in my bag Wonderful So great It's a great little book A great big book Although very few words in it Most of it is these wonderful drawings Charlie McKeezy He's really channeling wisdom In that book And the horse is the most grounded Of the four characters Of the four friends And he's asked What's the most courageous things You've ever said And the horse says help

Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum Cover

Walter E.D. Miller

Walt Disney Treasures

Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum

Brian Chesky mentioned reading this book twice before starting Airbnb. He was particularly impacted by two chapters, one detailing Walt Disney's move to Los Angeles and the other about the creation of Snow White, which inspired his approach to service design at Airbnb.

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This book had a big effect on me. And there's two chapters that really affected me. So this is the Neil Gaibor book. It's the definitive biography and it's pretty extensive. It's like over 600 pages,...

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Brian Chesky mentioned reading this book twice before starting Airbnb. He was particularly impacted by two chapters, one detailing Walt Disney's move to Los Angeles and the other about the creation of Snow White, which inspired his approach to service design at Airbnb.

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This book had a big effect on me. And there's two chapters that really affected me. So this is the Neil Gaibor book. It's the definitive biography and it's pretty extensive. It's like over 600 pages, you can see it. The Walt Disney's biography. Yes, the biography about the man, Walt Disney.

So this book I read right before I started Airbnb. I'm living in Los Angeles. I read this biography and I thought to myself I don't have to work for someone like Walt Disney. I can try to become something like that. Even if I don't get to that level of scale of success. That's okay. I can do something much smaller. But I can do something like this.

And then there was another chapter. Four years into Airbnb. Called Folly. Folly is the title of the chapter about Snow White. And they called it Folly because they named it Disney's Folly. And the reason they named it Disney's Folly is because he bet the entire company On this feature length animated film. And everyone thought that it was terrible.

And I had a business and I thought I was reading that chapter and that's when the light bulb went off. He basically invented the storyboard for that movie. Because the movie was so long. No one had done a feature length animated film. They had a storyboard out the scenes. And I remember thinking to myself Once I read that chapter I said What if we created a storyboard of the perfect vacation on Airbnb.

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Ashley Montagu

Touching

The human significance of the skin

Dr. Mat references Ashley Montagu's book, "Skin," to emphasize the importance of touch and physical contact in healthy development, contrasting it with the lack of touch experienced by Prince Harry as a child.

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The great British American anthropologist Ashley Montague Wrote a book called Skin, the human significance of touch

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Dr. Mat references Ashley Montagu's book, "Skin," to emphasize the importance of touch and physical contact in healthy development, contrasting it with the lack of touch experienced by Prince Harry as a child.

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The great British American anthropologist Ashley Montague Wrote a book called Skin, the human significance of touch

The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities Cover

Darcia Narvaez

The Evolved Nest

Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities

The book "The Evolved Nest" by Darcia Narvaez is mentioned in relation to a passage about infant elephants and their mothers, illustrating the importance of touch and being held in mammalian development.

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I read this in the book Called The Evolved Nest For which I wrote the preface By a wonderful psychologist Called Darcya Narvez When an infant elephant is born And the mother goes into...

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The book "The Evolved Nest" by Darcia Narvaez is mentioned in relation to a passage about infant elephants and their mothers, illustrating the importance of touch and being held in mammalian development.

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I read this in the book Called The Evolved Nest For which I wrote the preface By a wonderful psychologist Called Darcya Narvez When an infant elephant is born And the mother goes into labor All the other mother elephants Stand around in a circle When the infant plops on the ground They all stroke them with their trunks

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