Chiwi Journal #121: Chinese Philosophy, Traditional Festivals, 4 Character Idioms and Podcast Lessons with Jay Yow
Sep 13, 2021
59:30
My guest today is Jay Yow. Jay is a recording and mixing engineer and a gamer. He was born in Malaysia and immigrated to America in his adults year. Jay is currently the producer of one of my favourite podcasts James Altucher Show.
We discussed:
- What's it like to be a bilingual writer producing two newsletters to two different audiences?
- How James Altucher adopted Jay and trained him to be his sound engineer?
- What are the top three lessons learnt from James Altucher Show that interviewed 700+ guests?
- How does playing games teach us about life and learn a new language and business strategy?
- What's the traditional Chinese education role in the Malaysian education system?
- What's the origin story of famous Chinese festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-autumn Festival?
- Who are the most famous poets in ancient China?
- Why there are so many different versions of history? What's the TRUTH?
- What's the fundamental difference between Chinese philosophy and western philosophy?
- Share some four-character idioms that are valuable: Wo Xin Chang Dan and Sai Weng Shi Ma
Books/Links mentioned in this episodes:
- David Perell Write of Passage
- Jesse Itzler: The $160,000 Lesson
- How to connect with the greatest network in the world with AJ Jacobs
- How to Have Impossible Conversations when facts don't matter with Peter Boghossian
- How to start a conversation with Strangers? with Joe Keohane
- Fantasy Premier League 20/21 Review
- One Hundred Thousand Whys
- A story of Sima Guang
- Three Character Classic
- China’s Shakespeare - Du Fu
- Li Bai and Du Fu
- Dragon Boat Festival
- Mid-Autumn Festival
- Dynasties in Chinese history
- Qin Shi Huang
- Burning of books and burying of scholars
- Legalism (Chinese philosophy)
- Opium Wars
- Journey to the West
- Black Myth: Wukong