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Marcus Aurelius
“I think like Marcus Aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many levels.”— Ivanka Trump
Laozi
“I love lu and the taq ching is an amazing it kind of reminds me of like the philosophy of of jiujitsu”— Ivanka Trump
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
Randy Pausch
“In fact, in one of my favorite books, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, he talks about um he was a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon”— Andrew Huberman
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
Robert Bly
“there was a great guy, Robert Bly. He wrote Iron John... great book. Yeah. And amazing book.”— Andrew Huberman
Kevin Tracey
“a guy named Dr. Brian Tracy... He wrote a book called The Great Nerve, which is a very good introductory read on all of this.”— Tim Ferriss
Dean Buonomano
“I'd like to point you to a really excellent book called Your Brain is a Time Machine, the neuroscience and physics of time.”— Andrew Huberman
Marcus Luttrell
“Lone Survivor. Amazing book, I should say. I really enjoyed the book. The movie does, I think, a pretty good job of extracting some of the key moments from the book”— Andrew Huberman
Jack Carr
“right out of the box terminalist his first book is [ __ ] incredible. It's incredible. But the guy prepared for it his whole life”— Joe Rogan
Stefan Klein
“there's a wonderful book um that's not available in audio form called the secret pulse of time that that gets into how this uh expansion contraction works”— Andrew Huberman
Steven Pressfield
“Presfield talked about that in the war of art. Have you read that book? No. I've got copies of it. He sent me a whole box because back in Los Angeles, I used to keep a stack of them on the table and hand them out to people.”— Joe Rogan
Hermann Hesse
“There's a book that I'd um recommend for people um by Herman Hess, and it's called The Glass Bead Game. Magister Ludy, the glass bead game.”— Rick Doblin
Brian Muraresku
“when you talk about Brian Mirescu and the immortality key, which by the way is being made into a documentary, phenomenal book, it's incred”— Rick Doblin
Norman Ohler
“Have you read Blitzed by Norman Oer? ... Uh, phenomenal book on the drug use by the Nazis.”— Joe Rogan
Stanislav Grof
“the a pivot point in my life reading this. I said, I I really want to study psychedelics.”— Rick Doblin
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