Book Insights Podcast

*Our brains are machines that are always simplifying and approximating, focusing on some detail that captures our attention. Those details may be important, but we are only a brain within a vast universe, and our biases often lead us to bad predictions.  *Drawing on his groundbreaking forecasting work, Nate Silver surveys the field of prediction and discusses how to identify a meaningful signal in amongst a barrage of data.  *Only forecasting that arises from many points of data, both quantitative and qualitative, and that tries to take account of all biases, is likely to be correct.  *The only way to become better at forecasts, Silver says, is to make more of them.  *Anyone in the field of prediction has to be constantly taking in not just new points of data, but getting more and more rigorous about how they assess the data. Otherwise, you start to lose the signals for the noise. Theme 1: Nate Silver and his Highly Successful Forecast Approach  - 0:29 Theme 2: Poker, Baseball & Forecasting Things With Complex Causes and Inputs - 12:12 Theme 3: Examples Where Prediction Starts to Break Down - 22:25 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/MrBusiness/nate-silver-on-the-art-of-a-good-prediction-186 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: YouTube. (2019). The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver. [online] Available at: https://youtu.be/z4zhI9uLs4U?t=382. Full Title: The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't Year of Publication: 2012 Book Author: Nate Silver To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/bdf3vevz Book Insight Writer: Carl Dister Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Gabe Mara Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*Viktor Frankl’s wife, parents and brother died in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Enduring extreme hunger, cold and brutality, first in Auschwitz then Dachau, Frankl himself was under constant threat of going to the gas chambers.  *He lost every physical belonging on his first day in the camps, and was forced to surrender a scientific manuscript he considered his life’s work. Yet having been lowered into the pits of humanity, Frankl emerged an optimist.  *His reasoning was that even in the most terrible circumstances, a person still has the freedom to choose how they see those circumstances and create meaning out of them. By accepting our suffering, we can transform it into an achievement.  *The purpose of life is not to seek happiness, but to find deep meaning in our vocation, our loves, and our challenges. Theme 1: Frankl in the Nazi concentration camps  - 0:29 Theme 2: The ability to choose our thoughts and actions - 8:23 Theme 3: Logotherapy and finding your purpose in life - 18:25 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/TheoLogian/how-to-find-hope-meaning-no-matter-what-5835/part-1 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: YouTube. (2019). Finding meaning in difficult times (Interview with Dr. Viktor Frankl). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlC2OdnhIiQ [Accessed 29 Mar. 2019]. Full Title: Man's Search for Meaning Year of Publication: 1946 Book Author: Viktor Frankl To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/2p86f35x Book Insight Writer: Kieran Saunders-Patel Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Gabe Mara Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*The story of Steve Jobs’s rise, fall and restoration at Apple resembled a Greek epic, and Walter Isaacson was fascinated by the chance to reconstruct this odyssey.  *Like the fabled Icarus, Jobs tested the limits of technology and design to soar ever higher.  *But while he took a number of nosedives – descending for a time from the heights of Apple’s leadership – he never totally crashed to Earth, but was held aloft by his imagination and peerless intuition about the future.  *That remarkable inventiveness helped Apple launch a series of planet-changing products, led by Jobs’s vision of the sublime integration of art, design, ideas and technology. Theme 1: From Cyberpunk to 1984 Rebel - 0:29 Theme 2: Toy Story and Tinseltown Stardom - 12:03 Theme 3: Apple Renaissance - 20:23 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/KarinRichey/steve-jobs-the-life-time-and-vision-5705/part-1 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: Jobs, Steve. “Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement Address (2005).” Stanford News, 12 June 2017, news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/. "Steve Jobs On Pixar Success, Hollywood & Storytelling". Youtube, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXK11naSfY. Accessed 1 Mar 2019. "Apple - Think Different - Full Version". Youtube, 2010, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs. Accessed 1 Mar 2019. Full Title: Steve Jobs Year of Publication: 2011 Book Author: Walter Isaacson To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/yc4frh4r Book Insight Writer: Kevin Holden Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Tom Evans

*The common sense and clarity of Michael Pollan’s message – Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants – is what gives it its power, all the more so when contrasted with the dizzying, conflicting dietary advice and convoluted lists of ingredients we are faced with on a daily basis.  *Pollan is a voice of reason amid the earnest, often ill-informed clean eating and wellness debates. Here he explains how industrialization, supposed advances in nutrition and manufacturing, and misleading media have colluded to distance us from simple, healthy eating.  *Both a manifesto and a manual, In Defense of Food offers clear guidelines about what to eat (in short, only foodstuffs your grandmother would recognize) and what to avoid (step forward, high fructose corn syrup).  *It also encourages us to experience the full pleasures of eating, and reminds us how food connects us to nature and to cultures going back hundreds of years. Theme 1: Rise of nutrition - 0:29 Theme 2: Why are we so sick? - 8:35 Theme 3: Eat and live well - 15:49 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: How to eat for pleasure & still be healthy – Michael Pollen (memod.com) Full Title: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Year of Publication: 2009 Book Author: Michael Pollen To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/y3494rpu Book Insight Writer: Laura Gladwin Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*In later life, Isaiah Berlin regretted calling his essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, but it’s an undoubtedly intriguing title.  *While it investigates the two ways of approaching knowledge, that of the fox who ‘knows many things’ and the hedgehog who ‘knows one big thing’ – outlining what would become a key principle of modern cultural theory – the essay’s real subject matter is the Leo Tolstoy’s view of history.  *Berlin had studied his fellow Russian Tolstoy’s work (he had also translated Russian literature), and viewed Tolstoy as a first-rate philosopher. In analysing War and Peace, and keeping in mind the aforementioned wildlife imagery, he reveals the fundamental tension between the two approaches.  *This tension is at the heart of Tolstoy’s philosophy: the hedgehog-like yearning for a unifying Truth despite the fox-like acceptance of everyday life in all its infinite and unknowable variety. Theme 1: Folly & Conceit of History - 0:29 Theme 2: Free Will & Rationality - 7:19 Theme 3: Two Levels of Reality - 15:21 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/jashdholani/the-tragedy-of-tolstoy-3254 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: “Freedom and Its Betrayal: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1952).” Freedom and Its Betrayal: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1952) | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures, podcasts.ox.ac.uk/freedom-and-its-betrayal-jean-jacques-rousseau-1952. Intellect, Manufacturing. “Isaiah Berlin Interview on Why Philosophy Matters (1976).” YouTube, YouTube, 16 Sept. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vib2rqJKS08 Full Title: The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History Year of Publication: 1953 Book Author: Isaiah Berlin To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/3mmj62d3 Book Insight Writer: Tom Butler-Bowden Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Elliott Schiff

*Parenting can be tough work, and at times it can feel like just surviving is the most you’re able to do. But psychotherapists Siegel and Bryson show that the most difficult moments are actually opportunities to thrive – you just need to use integration.  *Integration means connecting the two sides of your – and your child’s – brain.  *This can occur both horizontally, left brain to right brain, or vertically, ‘upstairs’ brain to ‘downstairs’ brain.  *It’s about engaging both the emotional and logical parts of the brain and understanding how these sides develop at different stages in your child.  *Eminently practical and engaging, the strategies and techniques in The Whole-Brain Child will help your children lead connected, meaningful and balanced lives. Theme 1: The Importance of Integration - 0:29 Theme 2: Memories and Mindsight - 11:02 Theme 3: The Whole Brain Family - 23:07 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/KarinRichey/the-whole-brain-child-method-can-revolutionize-you-276 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: Siegel, D. (2019). TPP 090: Dr. Daniel Siegel on Helping Our Kids Develop a "Yes" Brain. [online] SoundCloud. Available at: https://soundcloud.com/deborah-reber/tpp-090-dr-daniel-siegel-on-helping-our-kids-develop-a-yes-brain?consumer_key%3D815e7acf2915c50abba1bce5fa411952&sa=D&ust=1557784424500000&usg=AFQjCNEBey6esI3eeg-18QlnXWcuKqpf_A. Kids in the House. (2019). Articles on Watch Parenting Videos - Expert Advice for All Parents | Kids in the House. [online] Available at: https://www.kidsinthehouse.com/all-parents/parenting/resilience/helping-children-overcome-bad-experiences&sa=D&ust=1557784424516000&usg=AFQjCNEjfiu54KKiMWe34M9ojMKFjE7v5w. Full Title: The Whole Brain Child: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind Year of Publication: 2011 Book Author: Daniel J Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/tumbuchm Book Insight Writer: Dinsa Sachan Editor: Morwenna Loughman Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*In today’s world, competition is becoming increasingly fierce. This leads to bloody battles among competitors who are forced to keep reducing prices while continuously spending money on incremental improvements in product quality.  *If they are successful at this, they will merely stay afloat in red oceans. Because other firms are doing the same, everyone is facing the risk of drowning.  *Blue Ocean Strategy offers a different way of making business. Instead of swimming in red waters replete with hungry competitors, Kim and Mauborgne recommend finding blue oceans, that is becoming pioneers in new and untapped markets.  *Kim and Mauborgne summarize their approach by saying that “The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition”. Theme 1: What is blue ocean strategy? - 0:29 Theme 2: How to find blue oceans & avoid traps - 9:54 Theme 3: How to renew blue oceans - 24:10 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/TomBBBusiness/how-did-cirque-du-soleil-become-so-big-and-what-le-307 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: YouTube. (2019). Blue Ocean Strategy, Create New Markets and Leave the Competition Behind | Renée Mauborgne | WOBI. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clp-IMpuwaQ. Mauborgne, R. (2019). Stop Competing & Start Creating: How to Be Uniquely Successful With Renée Mauborgne. [online] YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLgUnEtN1Ic. Full Title: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant Year of Publication: 2015 Book Author: Renée Mauborgne, W. Chan Kim To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/pj6cv7av Book Insight Writer: Rafal Jennek Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Gabe Mara Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*Like many people, Rachel Hollis had a difficult time growing up. But she realized that, whatever her circumstances, it was no excuse for not designing and building a great life.  *Success has to be seized, and involves sacrifices, but it’s no harder than settling for mediocrity.  *The former party planner with a flourishing media company and family reveals what’s behind the influencer persona.  *Hollis is shockingly honest about her struggles, mistakes, crises, and the sheer amount of time it took her to achieve what she has.  *Her themes such as the need to dream big, the importance of letting go of the past, and making sure you care for yourself first are to be found in many self-help books, but Hollis adds into the mix her Christian faith.  *It brings extra meaning to her goal to empower women around the world and help them become their own hero. Theme 1: Self-Discipline and Attention to Detail - 0:29 Theme 2: Life is Unfair - Facing Failure and Building Resilience - 9:20 Theme 3: Never Give Up - 17:55 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/WorkingOnWellness/how-can-i-believe-in-myself-more-114 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: YouTube. (2019). I Don’t Care What You Think Of Me For Having A Dream | Rachel Hollis on Impact Theory. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG6jr3K2s88 Stitcher.com. (2019). #254: From Crippling Excuses to Empowered Action with Rachel Holllis from Online Marketing Made Easy with Amy Porterfield. [online] Available at: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/amy-porterfield/online-marketing-made-easy-with-amy-porterfield/e/59407988 Full Title: Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be Year of Publication: 2018 Book Author: Rachel Hollis To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/55dnh5st Book Insight Writer: Karin Richey Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Elliot Schiff

*If dying is a certainty, dying early is almost always a choice.  *This is the thread running through Michael Greger’s How Not To Die. Backed up by a catalogue of studies, Greger compellingly demonstrates how we can prevent, treat and even reverse our most common chronic diseases.  *The subtitle is Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease.  *Greger argues that to avoid the fifteen leading causes of death and disease in the developed world, all it takes is one simple, if sometimes challenging, dietary change: a whole-food, plant-based diet. Theme 1: We are all going to die - 0:29 Theme 2: The dark motivations of the food industry - 8:56 Theme 3: How not to die early - 14:35 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/WorkingOnWellness/thinking-of-going-vegan-read-this-first-151/part-1 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: "Dr. Michael Greger: "How Not To Die" | Talks At Google". Youtube, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ&feature=youtu.be&t=90. Accessed 5 Feb 2019. Full Title: How Not To Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease Year of Publication: 2015 Book Author: Michael Greger To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/wd75djf9 Book Insight Writer: Helen Long Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Kristi Burns

*Arguably the most influential self-help book of all time, Dale Carnegie’s bestseller had an immediate impact on publication in 1936, going through 17 editions in its first year alone, and coining a much-imitated phrase. *Still highly popular today, How to Win Friends and Influence People is a paean to integrity and good humor in the name of healthy capitalism, and a touchstone of American self-improvement. *People continue to flock to Dale Carnegie courses and swear by his simple, yet powerful, advice. *In fact, it’s said that the only diploma hanging in Warren Buffett’s office is his certificate from Dale Carnegie’s training course. Theme 1: What would Lincoln do? - 0:29 Theme 2: The age of influence - 9:26 Theme 3: Lead like Carnegie - 21:32 Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Subscribe at memod.com/insights Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: https://memod.com/WorkingOnWellness/how-can-i-be-more-likeable-191 HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEWS MENTIONED IN TODAYS' EPISODE HERE: Harari, Yuval Noah. “Transcript of ‘What Explains the Rise of Humans?".” Ted, Ted, www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_what_explains_the_rise_of_humans/transcript?language=en#t-934356. “Yuval Noah Harari: A History of Humankind.” TVO, 31 Aug. 2015, www.tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/yuval-noah-harari-a-history-of-humankind. Full Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Year of Publication: 2015 Book Author: Yuval Noah Harari To purchase the complete edition of this book click here: https://tinyurl.com/5544vssb Book Insight Writer: Niall Kishtainy Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden Producer: Daniel Gonzalez Production Manager: Karin Richey Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden Narrator: Elliot Schiff