← back
Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu · 1842
Mentioned 20 times across 10 podcasts · 2020–2026
Mention timeline20 mentions
20202026
Where it's mentioned
2026
The Quiet Age: How to Find Calm When Life Won’t Slow Down | Cory Allen
The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose · Oct 2026
“It's it's a little bit like the Dao Di Chin in that way. Right, the Dao Da Ching is a collection of I call'em poems”
Rick Rubin: What Jay-Z Did in 30 Minutes Left Me Speechless!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Sep 2026
“I first read the Tao when I was I had just moved to California. It's probably 30 years ago. And I read it and I felt like this is different than anything I read before”
Best Of: The Tao of Rick Rubin
The Ezra Klein Show · Sep 2026
“You and I have talked a bit about your love of Steven Mitchell's translation of the Dao Te Ching”
Why Friendship Matters in the Face of Suffering | John Kaag & Clancy Martin
The One You Feed | Personal Growth, Emotional Resilience & Purpose · May 2026
“I created a AI enhanced version of the Tao De Ching”
10 Harsh Truths I Wish I Knew in My 20s
On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Apr 2026
“The Tao Te Qing says, When you are content, to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you”
Ivanka Trump: My Dad Told Me Two Weeks Before He Ran For President!
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · Apr 2026
“I love Latsu and The Tao Te Ching is an amazing it kind of reminds me of like the it's like that's similar to the philosophy of of Jiu Jitsu around just sort of presence”
Bonus Episode: ICYMI Moments of 2025 with newly beloved Ologists
Ologies with Alie Ward · Feb 2026
“I'm not Buddhist, but this great Tao Te Ching number 65 in Buddhism says, the ancient masters taught the student to not know”
Primal Dating: What Modern Romance Gets Wrong | Tim Ash
Behavioral Grooves Podcast · Feb 2026
“teach you a lot. It's like, God, I thought we had a great connection. And again, you might at some point get chemically bonded to someone even on a on a phone call or on a first date and even without sleeping with them. And and so you're invested because your chemistry is working and trying to get you to mate. And they're like, yeah, I'm not feeling it. And um doesn't so it again it's a it's a tough balancing point. So you should adjust your approach to essentially treating it like a j”
2024
#764: Edward Norton and Martha Beck
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2024
“In the Tao de Jing, my very favorite book, it says”
#745: Rick Rubin and Mary Karr
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2024
“First one that comes to mind. Is The Dow D Jane. This Steven Mitchell Translation of the Dow Dijing”
#732: Martha Beck — The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days, How to Do a Beginner “Integrity Cleanse,” Lessons from Lion Trackers, and Novel Tactics for Reducing Anxiety
The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
“In the Tao to Jing, my very favorite book, it says, in the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added”
2023
#684: Jack Kornfield — How to Reduce Anxiety and Polish the Lens of Consciousness
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2023
“Let me read you something. It's just a not very long few lines in the Tao to Jing”
Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher (2017)
The Knowledge Project · Jul 2023
“Dow H Ching, a friend of mine is rereading it, so I picked it up again”
How to achieve hypergrowth in your business and career | Carilu Dietrich (Atlassian, Miro, Segment, 1Password)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2023
“The number one book is a life book called The Tao Te Ching, the Stephen Mitchell translation”
#649: Rick Rubin, Legendary Producer — Timeless Methods for Unlocking Creativity, Secrets Hidden in Plain Sight, The Future with AI, Helpful Distractions, Working with Strong Personalities, Breaking Out of “The Sameness,” and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2023
“That was always one of the wishes. Was to have a Dao like experience. The material in the book isn't very much like the Tao”
2022
#600: Jason Portnoy of PayPal, Palantir, and More — Porn Addiction, The Corrosiveness of Secrets, Healing Wounds, Escaping Shame Cycles, and Books to Change Your Life
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
“I remember I read The Dao De Ching”
#576: Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor
The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2022
“I don't know. Is this the Tao Te Ching or like what are we what are we doing here, people”
#229 Sidney Harman (Founder of Harman Kardon)
Founders · Jan 2022
“in the Tao Te Ching. They say that the leader having accomplished great things”
2021
#540: Harvard Polymath Noah Feldman — Deep Focus for Hyper-Productivity, Learning 10+ Languages, Predicting the Future with History, the Possibilities (and Limitations) of DAOs, Lessons from the Iraq Invasion, Designing the Supreme Court of Facebook, the Virtue of Scholarship, and the Wild Life of O
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2021
“like the Tao like the Tao Te Ching, right”
2020
#473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy
The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2020
“Bhagavad Gita, the Dao De Chang”