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Steven Pressfield
“Pressfield wrote a great book about it called The War of Art... I have a stack of them and I give them to comedians. Just read this”— Joe Rogan
David Kaiser
“Did you ever read that book? How the hippies saved physics?... Sweet. Good book about like the 70s and physicists.”— Julia Mossbridge
Tom O'Neill
“There's a fantastic book called Chaos by Tom O'Neill. It's all about the Manson family. Have you ever read it? It's phenomenal. And it's mind-blowing.”— Joe Rogan
David Lifton
“And there's a great book on it called Best Evidence by David Lifton, and he was an accountant that was hired to go over the Warren Commission Report.”— Joe Rogan
Mike Caro
“The best book I bought ... my favorite book is this guy Mike Caro. It's a book called Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells.”— Ari Shaffir
Moon Juice
“there's a product called magnes which is like a pink powder that a hot chick told me about and I love it, dude.”— Luis J Gomez
Mustafa Suleyman
“He wrote this book, The Coming Wave. He was one of the people who created Google's Deep Mind. The Coming Wave is just a wonderful breakdown of historic examples of new technology completely transforming humanity.”— Joe Rogan
Sam Sheridan
“there's a a really good book, one that I like, anyway, um called The Fighter's Heart by a guy named Sam Sheridan”— Andrew Huberman
Wendi Reese
“this is a book that I would suggest that every believing Christian go pick it up and read it because it talks about chapter and verse”— W. Bryan Hubbard
Asne Seierstad
“One of my favorite books that I read when I was writing my book is this book called One of Us. And it's about the Norwegian mass shooter”— Kathryn Paige Harden
Stanislaw Lem
“One particular author that I love is Lem. Stanislav Lem. Oh, he's amazing. Solaris was his”— Michael Levin
Terry Bisson
“One is They're Made of Meat by Terry Bisson, right? You know that one? Yeah, it's a great one. Very fast read for people.”— Michael Levin
Arthur C. Clarke
“There's another one I like which I'm going to butcher it. I think it's The Fires Within by Clarke.”— Michael Levin
Hunter S. Thompson
“Fear and Loathing changed my life. Like reading that book was like, "What the fuck?" Like, "What is this guy doing?"”— Joe Rogan
Hunter S. Thompson
“I mean those books Hell's Angels and and you know, Fear and Loathing is some of the best writing.”— Ben Affleck
Hunter S. Thompson
“Rum Diary was spectacular, you know? It was like really descriptive and punchy and interesting”— Ben Affleck
Natasha Dow Schull
“There's a tremendous book Addiction by Design... about gambling and she profiles people who play video poker, many of whom work in the casino.”— Keith Humphreys
Anna Lembke
“giving them Anna's book, Dopamine Nation, and obviously really hard work on their part is really what did it.”— Andrew Huberman
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