9 Life-Changing Books (Ep. 96)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Martin and I talk about some of the books that have shaped our beliefs and the directions of our lives. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: If This Isn't Nice, What Is? by Kurt Vonnegut The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Steven Covey (here's a summary) Zen Habits by Leo Babauta Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky Essentialism by Greg Mckeown The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (watch my 5 Lessons video on this book) The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 5 Questions: Setbacks, Tiredness, Dream Job Selection Be Mindful of Your Path Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin (and my interview with her about it) LessWrong Sequences (if you want a book version of this: Rationality: From AI to Zombies) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Influence by Robert Cialdini Loss aversion Hell Yeah! or No Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.
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0:30.1	Head over to the Enforium.com to sign up now. Welcome to the College and Po Geek Podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:45.9	And in this show, I'm joined once again by my friend Martin Baby,
0:50.0	who you probably have heard on the podcast if you listen to any of the recent five questions
0:54.0	episodes where we take questions from you guys and answer them.
0:57.5	And those episodes will probably be coming back occasionally in the future here, but today's
1:02.0	episode is a little bit different
1:03.7	today's episode is actually an idea that I got from Martin which was to go over
1:07.6	books that shaped our lives so in this episode I've got four books that I chose that I think were pretty instrumental in changing the course of my life or the way that I think and the way that I make decisions.
1:19.4	And Martin has got five books and we're just going to go back and forth and kind of
1:23.5	discuss some of the lessons we've learned. So hopefully this episode will help
1:27.8	you learn some of the same lessons and at the very least you might have some recommendations for additional reading material.
1:35.0	I'm also going to be putting a discussion link for this episode in the College and Bogeek community.
1:40.0	I haven't been doing podcast discussion links so far, but I'm going to start it off with this one because I think you guys might want to discuss some of these books if you've read them or maybe you have questions about them or maybe you've got books that have changed your life as well and I would love to hear your own reading
1:53.3	recommendations and we can all just kind of suggest more books to each other.
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