Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests to brainstorm with them.
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“I forget which book it was, but you uh there was one story that I might be butchering But I think you said that um Like some of the first bits of writing ever discovered. was about one generation complaining about the next generation ... I think it was Forty Eight Laws of Power”
“Like there's this one called um the escape artists, and it's one of the only guys to escape from uh Auschwitz, uh one of the only Jews”
“Well there was a man, uh, Victor Frankel who wrote a book, Man's Search for Meaning, very famous book”
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war, but for sure, um It sounds like Sublime and Forty Laws of Power as well”
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war”
“I have felt that with four eight laws of power, mastery, art of seduction, auto uh maybe maybe out of war”
“I wrote a whole book. Laws of human nature about how humans have a dark side”
“a very great book I enjoyed a lot, but by a skeptic. And I'm not a skeptic, but I like reading all the different aspects. This book called Dying to Live. By this woman, I think it's Susan Blackmore is their name”
“I spent um Six, seven months. Uh with fifty cent writing the fiftieth law, my fourth book”
“I read a book called Your Money or Your Life”
“Like the sun also rises, Hemingway type life, you know what I mean”
“I know that um there's design your life, which was that Stanford course. They had like a handbook”
“I've read the Everything store, I've read uh some books about him now we're talking to you”
“Have you ever read that book, Art and Fear? They I think they have to use this uh The pottery class example, do you know the story”
“Flashboys is all bullshit. Because if you show up and start askers Hey, how did you do that? And you engender their trust in order to betray it,'cause they know you're gonna write a book”
“a tautological stupidity. That is in a book called Market Wizards. So this this book called Market Wizards. It's one of the rare trading books that's great”
“he has to come out and write a book called Well If I Did It, here's exactly how I did it”
“If you've watched the T V show and other things like that and you've read the book Bad Blood. Yeah, basically what happened was the Edmund Edison machine pretty much didn't work”
“I read this book about a month ago. It's called Dare. D A R E And the drug the drug programmer? It's the same name, but it stands for um it's a book on how to deal with panic attacks”
“one entrepreneur, Paul Alstrom, who wrote the book Nail and Skelet, he calls it your beak head”
“But uh the thirteenth floor was actually based on a novel Called Similacron III, which was from the 1960s”
“Now later, if you read the f the follow-on book, 2010, you see the reason was he was given conflicting directives”
“He wrote a book called Autobiography of a Yogi, which was Steve Jobs. You know, favorite book”
“And when I wrote my first book, Zen Entrepreneurship, it was kind of about all of these things”
“in fact, I'm just coming out with a new book, which is a sequel to that first one called The Zen Entrepreneur and the Dream, where I get into even weirder stuff that I was afraid to put”
“right after I wrote my book, The Simulation Hypothesis. People who had been on DMTs told me, oh hey, I know we're in a simulation”
“I went and started reading this book called Untethered Soul, which is kind of a fine book”
“So that's one of these things where you read a book like How to Win Friends and Influence People and you're like, duh, that's obvious. And it almost becomes a reminder”
“many traditions use this, which is visualizing their own death. And the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying samurai”
“The inner game of tennis talks a lot about that. Great book. And I actually just listened to um uh a talk by the coach of George Saint Pierre”
“So, and you can read a book about this. It's called Descartes' error. It was written by a neuroscientist in like 2012 or something”
“I've read The Body Keeps the Score and I like intuitively know that like trauma is a physical thing, but like to put it on a real”
“there was this thing called hand-in-hand parenting, which I highly recommend, a book called Listen, which is like one of the most profound practices of my life”
“James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits, sells the feeling of self-control, a feeling that you can take control of your life”
“Kai Bird, who previously wrote a book on Robert Oppenheimer that won the Pulitzer Prize”
“I just started reading finally reading The Power Broker. Power Broker is a historic book considered one of the 50 best books of the”
“everybody's waiting for him to finish the fifth volume of his series on Lyndon Johnson”
“Have you read Manhunt about Lincoln's assassination”
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