#500 - Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes
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#500 - Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes mentions Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stevens Davidovitz, 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Berkman, The Expectation Effect by David Robson, and The Negativity Bias by Roy Baumeister with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
Seth Stevens Davidovitz. And his book, Don't Trust Your Gut, is fantastic.
The drive to become more efficient at all costs usually has, consciously or otherwise, some kind of fantasy endpoint where you're able to do everythi…
The expectations are so powerful and it's because I hate the secret so much and Rhonda Byrne is an awful human.
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“Seth Stevens Davidovitz's book, Don't Trust Your Gut, explores the predictive power of various traits in long-term relationship happiness, revealing that traditional desirable traits have little correlation.”
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“Oliver Berkman, who wrote 4,000 Weeks. Fantastic book. If you're into productivity but have kind of transcended the autistic side of it and are now moving into a more holistic view of productivity.”
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“This is one of the best books that I've read this year. In it, he explains how our actions and thoughts impact our daily existence more than we think.”
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“This is from a different book of his. He said, life has to win every day. Death only has to win once.”
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“Michael Malice told me about this. He's a fan of Margaret Thatcher and has been doing a ton of research about her era recently.”
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