Game Changers by Dave Asprey is a comprehensive guide that distills the wisdom from over 450 interviews with highly successful leaders, innovators, and mavericks. The book focuses on three main objectives: becoming smarter, faster, and happier. It offers 46 science-backed 'laws' that provide practical strategies for optimizing diet, exercise, sleep habits, and mental performance. Asprey combines insights from human biology and psychology with real-world examples to help readers upgrade their 'operating system' to better align with modern goals. The book covers a wide range of topics, including taming fear and anxiety, making better decisions, establishing high-performance habits, and practicing gratitude and mindfulness[1][4][5].
In 'What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence', Stephen A. Schwarzman shares his journey to success, offering insights into finance, leadership, and philanthropy. The book provides a behind-the-scenes look at building Blackstone and emphasizes the importance of resilience, decisiveness, and continuous learning in achieving excellence.
All the Single Ladies is a New York Times bestselling investigation into the lives of unmarried women in America. The book, written by award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister, explores the historical and contemporary landscape of single women, their impact on social change, and the various factors influencing their choices. Traister conducted over 100 interviews with academics, social scientists, and prominent single women to uncover the significance of single women in driving movements such as temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. The book covers class, race, sexual orientation, and features vivid anecdotes from both contemporary and historical figures, emphasizing the collective power of single women in guiding legal, economic, and social progress.
In Good and Mad, Rebecca Traister tracks the history of female anger as a political force, from suffragettes marching on the White House to office workers protesting after Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation. The book explores women’s anger towards both men and other women, the varied ways anger is received based on who expresses it, and how women’s collective fury has become transformative political fuel. Traister deconstructs society’s and the media’s condemnation of female emotion, particularly rage, and its repercussions. The book highlights the double standard against women and its stultifying effects, emphasizing the crucial role of women’s anger in their slow rise to political power in America.
On the second episode of That's the Ticket, Dan and Alyssa talk through Biden's pledge to select a woman as his running mate and how the candidacies of Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin got us to where we are today. Then, Alyssa talks to writer Rebecca Traister about what media challenges the eventual nominee will face.
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