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The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson (inferred)
“I recommend ... as a great book”
“I recommend a cent of money as a great book on this history debits and credits on Ledger's started around 30,000 years ago”— Lex Fridman
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The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
“including the war of art a book that had a big impact on my life and the life of millions of people”— Lex Fridman
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Turning Pro
Steven Pressfield
“I highly recommend it and others of his books on this topic including turning pro do the work nobody wants to read your shit”— Lex Fridman
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Do the Work
Steven Pressfield
“and others of his books on this topic including turning pro do the work nobody wants to read your shit”— Lex Fridman
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Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit
Steven Pressfield
“do the work nobody wants to read your shit and the Warrior Ethos”— Lex Fridman
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The Warrior Ethos
Steven Pressfield
“nobody wants to read your shit and the Warrior Ethos also his books gets a fire about the Spartans”— Lex Fridman
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Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
“also his books gets a fire about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae the Lionsgate tides of war and others”— Lex Fridman
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The Lion's Gate
Steven Pressfield
“gets a fire about the Spartans and the Battle of Thermopylae the Lionsgate tides of war and others”— Lex Fridman
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Tides of War
Steven Pressfield
“the Battle of Thermopylae the Lionsgate tides of war and others are some of the best historical fiction novels ever written”— Lex Fridman
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The Virtues of War
Steven Pressfield
“in my book the virtues of war I have you read that there's a character named telamon”— guest
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The Artist's Journey
Steven Pressfield
“one of the things that I did in my book the artist journey is that there were certain things where I tracked or just listed in order”— guest
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The Legend of Bagger Vance
Steven Pressfield
“I never knew my first book was The Legend of Bagger Vance I hadn't before that happened I had no clue”— guest
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
“have you read the earners Becker's denial of death for example is that Ernest Becker is a philosopher”— Lex Fridman
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City of Angels
Brad Silberling (inferred)
“this is Anna do you ever see the movie City of Angels the visual of the movie it was meg Ryan”— guest
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The Iliad
Homer
“I mean in the Iliad where gods and goddesses appear along with the human antagonists on the battlefield all the time”— guest
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Casablanca
Michael Curtiz (inferred)
“a better example might be something like Casablanca where in the end the Pumphrey Bogart character has to acting operating out of the self”— guest
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Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski (inferred)
“this is a supernatural thriller that's the genre sort of like Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist”— guest
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The Exorcist
William Friedkin (inferred)
“this is a supernatural thriller that's the genre sort of like Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist”— guest
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Alien
Ridley Scott (inferred)
“If you think about the alien on the spaceship that's like the ultimate kind of villain it keeps changing form”— guest
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Out of Africa
Sydney Pollack (inferred)
“there's a line in Out of Africa that God made the world round so that we couldn't see too far ahead”— guest
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