John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation | The Tim Ferriss Show

Educating Intuition

Robin Hogarth (inferred)

“I'm deeply influenced by two things: Csikszentmihalyi's work on Flow and Hogarth's work, Educating Intuition, and he makes a proposal”— John Vervaeke

What Is Ancient Philosophy?

Pierre Hadot

“the book that changed my life. I picked What Is Ancient Philosophy? by Pierre Hadot. That book, and philosophy as a way of life”— John Vervaeke

Plato's Dialogues

Plato

“Plato's Dialogues and Plotinus' Ennead... Those books are sacred to me... I read Plato. It transforms me”— John Vervaeke

The Enneads

Plotinus

“Plato's Dialogues and Plotinus' Ennead... I read Plotinus' Ennead on the nature of beauty or on the nature of One and contemplation”— John Vervaeke

Descartes' Error

Antonio Damasio

“a good place to point people about this is Damasio's Descartes' Error. You have people who have a certain kind of brain damage”— John Vervaeke

Gold: Poems by Rumi (translated by Haleh Liza Gafori)

Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

“I have a new collection of translations... a new translation of Rumi poetry... it is by Haleh Liza Gafori... I was very impressed by the book”— Tim Ferriss

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny

“when I was 15, I read a couple of books, The Lord of Light and Siddhartha, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny”— John Vervaeke

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

“Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and it really blew me open”— John Vervaeke

Fifth Business

Robertson Davies

“Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and it really blew me open. It really blew me open”— John Vervaeke

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Fred Waitzkin (inferred)

“his name is Joshua Waitzkin. He was the basis for Searching for Bobby Fischer, the book and the movie, of course”— Tim Ferriss

The Republic

Plato

“it's been happening since I first read The Republic, since I first read The Symposium”— John Vervaeke

The Symposium

Plato

“it's been happening since I first read The Republic, since I first read The Symposium”— John Vervaeke

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza

“That's why his book is called Ethics. But he presents it as like Euclid's Elements. He presents it as this completely logical argument”— John Vervaeke

Cognition in the Wild

Edwin Hutchins

“the classic book by this is Cognition In the Wild by Ed Hutchins, where he talks about the fact that nobody navigates a ship”— John Vervaeke

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry (inferred)

“I just read Lonesome Dove, which is 950 or 980 pages, and then, now I'm watching the three-part television series with Robert Duvall”— Tim Ferriss

Lonesome Dove (TV series)

“now I'm watching the three-part television series with Robert Duvall and so on, which is very good”— Tim Ferriss