Beloved

This book by Toni Morrison was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: David Eagleman. It comes up in conversations about brain health, consciousness, productivity & performance. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and imagination.

• “A Hundred Years of Solitude, if someone hasn't read that, Borges' Labyrinths, Toni Morrison's Beloved, essentially anything by Faulkner”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “if someone hasn't read that... Toni Morrison's Beloved”
  David Eagleman · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 202301:04:02

  Said during "Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Productivity, and More". The episode features David Eagleman: Neuroscientist, Stanford professor, New York Times bestselling author (Sum, Incognito, Livewired), TED speaker, and founder of the neurotech company Neosensory. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains sensory augmentation, why we dream, consciousness, memory, and his Lazy Susan method for managing many projects.