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Book recommendations from inspiring hosts and/or guests, as heard on awesome podcasts.
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James McKenna recommends several books that speak to learning how to learn.
469: Optimizing Learning and Development in the Workplace with James McKenna

How to Take Ownership of Learning and Development

2min
AI Key Takeaways
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Elon encourages us to read all the time and to read broadly.
#252 – Elon Musk: SpaceX, Mars, Tesla Autopilot, Self-Driving, Robotics, and AI

Elon Musk Suggests Reading Books is the Best Way to Become a Useful Human

7min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Try to be useful to your fellow human beings and the world
  • It's hard to be useful, but aim to have a positive net contribution to society
  • Don't try to be a leader just for the sake of it, aim to live a useful life worth living
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@pamela
Lessons from scaling Spotify: The science of product, taking risky bets, and how AI is already impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström (Co-President, CPO, and CTO at Spotify)

Spotify CPO - Recommended Books on Mental Models and Science

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@am
David Senra is a legend
#566 - David Senra - Insights From History's Greatest Thinkers

The five books David Senra recommends the most

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Autobiography by James Dyson is a great and rare gift book
  • The River of Doubt is a biography of Teddy Roosevelt that focuses on his life after losing the last presidential election
  • The River of Doubt is about endurance and treating life like an adventure
@stackingmoney
Episode #165 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things

The Value of Reading a Book and Inspiring Creativity

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@param
reading#reading #books
This is What Winners Do | Ask DS

How Ryan Holiday Finds Books To Read

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Reading is a great way to learn about different topics and to build relationships with different authors.
  • It is helpful to find books that are related to the books that you are reading, in order to understand them better.
@blakesperling
Neil Pasricha: Cultivate Happiness & Live An Awesome Life

The Benefits of Reading

1min
AI Key Takeaways
@elza
E16 Keli Fancher: How To Be Productive As A PKMer

"The One Thing": A Book About Focusing on Your Goals

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@bdam
#648: James Clear, Atomic Habits — Simple Strategies for Building (and Breaking) Habits, Questions for Personal Mastery and Growth, Tactics for Writing and Launching a Mega-Bestseller, Finding Leverage, and More

James Clear: Getting Book Recommendations From 3 Star Reviews

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AI Key Takeaways
  • The three star reviews are the most helpful and critical reviews, and are often the ones that are most accurate.
  • It is important to read the reviews for a book before buying it, as there may be other books that are more helpful or accurate.
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Executive coach Kelli Thompson shares her three favorite non-fiction books.
487: Closing the Confidence Gap with Kelli Thompson

Books That Have Impacted My Career

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • The book 'The Gifts of Imperfection' by Brené Brown had a significant impact on the speaker's career.
  • The book 'The Untethered Soul' by Michael Singer provided valuable insights about the speaker's inner belief system and its influence on their work.
  • The book 'My Life in Full' by Indra Nooyi, former CEO of Pepsi, offers a captivating storytelling style and imparts lessons learned from her career experiences.
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I’ve done nearly 500 episodes and these books are being recommended for the first time.
491: Your Future Self with Hal Hershfield

UCLA professor Hal Hershfield shares some of his favorite reads

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan is a beautiful novel that explores interconnectedness.
  • How Proust Can Change Your Life by Elaine Dibbaton distills practical life lessons from Proust's work.
  • These book recommendations are unique and have not been mentioned before on the podcast.
@jeffbrown
Dr. Constance Dierickx shares her current favs.
481: How to See What Others Don’t with Constance Dierickx, PhD

Outlive and Bird by Bird

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
The book Monotasking is discussed here. Reading is the first of twelve monotasks covered in the book.
Become a Focused Monotasker

The Benefits of Reading Printed Books for Attention and Productivity

3min
AI Key Takeaways
@jeffbrown
Books from Adam Grant and Zoe Chance are among guest Steven Van Cohen’s favorites.
482: How Leaders Can Move Teams From Isolated to All In with Steven Van Cohen

Influence Is Your Superpower and other recommended reads

2min
AI Key Takeaways
  • 'Influence Is Your Superpower' by Zoe Chance is recommended for its natural and impactful approach to influence.
  • 'The Tipping Point' by Malcolm Gladwell is a classic that explores sustainable and large scale change.
  • 'Originals' by Adam Grant examines the characteristics of successful companies and teams.
@ic360
#674: Neuroscientist David Eagleman — Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Extraordinary Productivity, Dreaming, Improving Hearing with a Wristband, Synesthesia, Stretching Time with Novelty, Lessons from Titans of Science, and Much More

David Eagleman Recommends Books

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is a recommended read for someone who hasn't read any of the authors mentioned.
  • The five authors mentioned, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino, Jorge Luis, Borjais, Toni Morrison, and William Faulkner, are all known for their magical realism writing style.
  • Magical realism allows writers the freedom to explore crazy and impossible things.
@kevin
Reddit communities revolt + Brad Gerstner on state of private and public markets in 2023 | E1761

The Concept of Essentialism

2min
AI Key Takeaways
@blakesperling
#171 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher (2017)

The Value of Investing in Books

1min
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@yueqian
Find books you'll love

How to Find the Perfect Book: Tips from Booksellers and Librarians

1min
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@jeffbrown
From authors Jim Collins and Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
485: An Unbound and Unbridled Path to Unstuck Growth with Bryan Orr

Books that Transformed My Business Mindset

1min
AI Key Takeaways
  • 'good to great' is a transformative business book that has had a huge impact on the speaker's role as a leader
  • 'anti fragile' emphasizes the importance of embracing disorder and taking opportunities to improve in the face of challenges
@jeffbrown
Roger Martin, Ed Catmull, and Alan Mulally…
484: The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams with David Burkus

Positive Servant Leaders That Have Made an Impact

3min
AI Key Takeaways