Modern Wisdom

“Carlo Ravelli It it has a wonderful recent book on on how this goes all the way down. He thinks that everything is relational foundationally”

“Thomas Aquinas leaved the Symothica, one of the greatest contributions to religious philosophy. In history, perhaps the best. Uh unfinished. On his deathbed”

“the Proslogian where it shows up is a is a prayer. It's not like you know, dear atheists, here's why you should believe in God”

“David Bentley Hart's book, The Experience of God, is good on this”

“Thomas Nagel, where he gave this famous definition I gave earlier. What is it like to be about? And he asks that question because he's like, okay, so that the key question is not Can you, Chris, imagine yourself like hanging upside down for most of the day”

“I was reading Merlin Sheldrake's book about mushrooms, which is really interesting”

“Michael Pollins' recent book is brilliant, talking about, you know, watching time lapses of plants growing and and watching how they move”

“Maybe in the Bible it says a lover of silver. We'll never be content. With silver”

“I always saw a U star. As a kid I'd I'd watch Harry Potter, right”

“And when people understood The mindset. And the philosophy behind Vincent Van Gogh's thinking. And the fact that his literature was probably as beautiful as his artwork. That's what made the painting so”

“That's the um topic of uh one of my earlier books, The Origin of Mind. which I'm now writing a second edition of”

“It feels to me like system one, system two thinking a bit from Daniel Kahneman, thinking fast and slow”

“So if you read a book, uh Called Descartes air. twenty, twenty twelve. Um He wrote that the emotional Center of the brain is what makes decisions”

“whether you were a stoic or a samurai or Tibetan book of living or dying the way to overcome the fear of death. is to actually visualize and feel the experience of death over and over”

“evolutionary psychiatry, good feelings for uh good reasons for bad feelings. Great book”

“I don't know if the anxious generation Findings are gonna hold up”

“that was Robert Wright's why Buddhism is true when I first learned about that”

“The book is called All the Feels”

“Einstein didn't actually say that. uh it's in zero to one”

“I recommend it's Think on These Things by uh Christian Murti”

“If you Look. Uh Uh Just Homer. Uh the Greeks. Um If you look at the older Homer, which is the Iliad”

“The leading Catholic theologian Erasmus Writes a major article. Called on the freedom of the will”

“Wonderful book called The Bicameral Mind”

“my favorite book of yours is What You Can Change and What You Can't”

“I had written five edition of abnormal psychology”

“Alistair Urkart ... The forgotten Highlander. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So um that was one of the first stories that got me into this”

“I mean the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare was a little bit of a shame Uh The movie? Yeah, the book. Because I was such a fan of the book first”

“an interesting story from Edward Slingerland as well. He wrote this book, The The History of Alcohol”

“Heroes erased. Book one. The flight of Richard Bong. That's what I'm up to next. Brave Books”

“say in in my book, uh we're all at the beginning of infinity”

“not only does he die, but everybody dies, like in Hamlet”

“I don't know if you what is that book Catch Twenty Two, or is that that great scene where the guys in the the they get he gets invited to this like great Gatsby party type of thing”

“he gets invited to this like great Gatsby party type of thing”

“I made the tenth chapter of the fiftieth look. fifty cent book about the sublime, about how he had nearly died from the gunshot wounds”

“And then I From fifty cent book. It was a chapter about mastery, so I turned that into the book Mastery”

“And so she wrote a book about that called My Stroke of Insight”

“Have you ever read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman”

“It had the subtle knife in it, the Golden Compass. Oh so it's It must be thirty years old”

“It had the subtle knife in it, the Golden Compass”

“I spoke to David Dader, you know way of the superior man. Author so Uh Illustrious longtime author”

“I wrote the Forty Eight Laws of Power. When I was thirty nine, essentially, and I'd been um pretty much a loser up until then”

“I wrote a book on on human nature, laws of human nature. It's about five hundred and sixty pages, kind of dense, no imagery, it's kind of look at first glance it looks incredibly intimidating”

“that's the name of our buck. Twelve lovers”

“I'm obsessed this uh I'm wearing my new Dungeon Crawler Carl t shirt today”

“I suppose This is probably one of the advantages of a book like let's say Atomic Habits or Tiny Habits, B J Fogg”

“I suppose This is probably one of the advantages of a book like let's say Atomic Habits or Tiny Habits, B J Fogg”

“he wrote a book called Inside the Company. In which he document in an appendix. The names. Of every undercover CIA officer that he ever met”

“I have had do you know John Lyle? familiar with him? He wrote the Dirty Tricks department”

“I wrote a book called The CIA Insider's Guide to Ling and Lie Detection”

“I read The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho, so I was in a fucking like psychedelic fugue state for the entirety of the time that I was on”

“there's a Bible, which is like what Jesus taught”

“there's a Krish there's the Bhagavad Gita, which is what Krishna taught”

“There's the Quran, which is what Mohammed taught”

“my book is called Men's Work”

“mean, that's the message of grit. Um And you know, the reason I I embarked on this in the first place is that I knew that I had achieved what I had achieved through effort and not through natural talent”

“The book is called The Person of the Situation. And it is not a bestseller. It is written by two academics who never went on podcasts, right? They are Dickness Bitt and Lee Ross”

“to those who have nothing more will be taken, to those who have everything more will be given”

“Read way too much like how you went friends and influenced people”