The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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

The renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with the professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution, from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality, and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike, either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike.

• “the other book that I love the most ... It's called The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “the other book that I love the most”
  Dr. Gül Dölen · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202301:57:11

  Said during "Rethinking Psychedelics, Octopuses on MDMA, and The Master Key of Metaplasticity | Dr. Gül Dölen". The episode features Dr. Gul Dolen: Associate professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pioneer in psychedelics research; her lab discovered that psychedelics reopen a critical period for social reward learning. Neuroscientist Gul Dolen explains how psychedelics may be a master key that reopens the brain's critical periods for healing.