39: Books That Have Had The Biggest Impact On Us

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- We each share three books that have had the biggest impact on us. It was hard to get David to narrow his list down to three, but we made it work for this episode :) Here are all of the books we mention on this episode: Walden - Henry David Thoreau (1:40) Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson (3:00) Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger - Peter Bevelin (5:00) Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker (6:40) Bold - Peter Diamandis (8:30) Ogilvy on Advertising - David Ogilvy (10:00) PS. In a few weeks we’re launching David's book about the customer-driven revolution and his story -- with learning from Performable to HubSpot to Drift. Be the first to know + get a sneak peek: http://drift.com/hypergrowth Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Come hang out with us at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio.

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0:00.0	All right.
0:03.9	I'm, I'm feeling good right now.
0:05.5	We're good.
0:06.4	All right, let's do it.
0:16.8	All right, we're going to do a little seeking wisdom today.
0:19.8	We haven't talked about books in a while. Damn, bringing it back to my favorite. Yeah. And so, all right, we came up with this topic, and we're each going to share the three books that have had the biggest impact on us. But we just spent, I don't know, we spent, it took me two minutes. It took, it took this guy like an hour. He's going through thousands of books. No way. Gave me five minutes. This guy comes in, Dave, and gives me five minutes to pick the three books that have had the most impact on my life. Yeah, I mean, it's easy for me. I've read like six books, so I just picked half of them. and then so i go through like thousands of books in five minutes. Yeah. All right. So here's what we're going to do. We'll go back and forth and we'll talk about our three. Since you're the wiser, you're the wiser one here. Give what's the first one. I'm going to throw you for a loop. Okay, hit me. Dave's not expecting this. I'm not ready. He probably has not read this. So, again, these are not, didn't have enough time to really come up and do it with the three best books. These are the three books that I'm thinking about right now for whatever reason that I've had an impact on me. Okay. The first book that I want to talk about is called Walden.
1:28.5	Oh.
1:28.9	It's by Henry David Thoreau.
1:32.2	And so far out of my league.
1:35.7	Dave's eyes just rolled backwards in his head, and he's like, what is going on?
1:40.4	So I'm going to give you a couple of quotes.
1:41.9	That's what I was looking up.
1:42.8	That's where I was from the book.
1:44.7	Sure.
1:45.1	The first is, and this is from Henry David Thoreau, our life is fritted away by detail.
1:51.7	Simplify, simplify.
1:53.4	What made you think of this book now for this?
1:56.0	This time of year.
1:57.0	So we're coming into fall here.
1:58.4	And so basically his writings about Walden Pond made me think about this time.
2:05.5	And fall in New England is that time that is awesome and kind of like a little bit of
2:10.4	melancholy.
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