#721 - George Mack - Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore?
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#721 - George Mack - Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore? mentions The Gap and the Gain by Ben Hardy, The Almanack of by Naval Ravikant, and You're Doing It Wrong with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
The gap in the game is one of the most important ideas that I keep forgetting about.
The speaker references getting the term 'leverage' from the vowels book almanac, which is likely referring to 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant'.
I was talking to somebody who his book title was a pun, right? Which is kind of like a meme, like a play on words.
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“The gap in the game is one of the most important ideas that I keep forgetting about. It's like a Ben Hardy book from three years ago. And he came on the show to talk about it.”
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“The speaker references getting the term 'leverage' from the vowels book almanac, which is likely referring to 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant'.”
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“A book about sex called 'You're Doing It Wrong' was mentioned in relation to the challenges of translating puns into other languages.”
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