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Tim Ferriss · 2024-06-06

Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger — The Tim Ferriss Show

Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger — The Tim Ferriss Show

Recommended on this episode

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About Face

Colonel David Hackworth

“just a great book; that's the book that I've given to a couple close friends of mine that I wanted them to have”
“that's a book called about face by Colonel David hackworth and it is huge ... just a great book and he was a rebel”— Jocko Willink
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Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

“fantastic writer so this is his best book”
“Blood Meridian yeah ... it's written by cor M McCarthy oh fantastic writer so this is his best book”— Jocko Willink
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Letters from a Stoic

Seneca

“I almost started whooping with pleasure ... so modern so amazing so essential I just thought I get have to get this book immediately”
“I grabbed it and sat down and I almost started whooping with pleasure I mean I that the things that he was writing 2,000 years ago were so modern so amazing”— Sebastian Junger
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Scrivener

Literature & Latte (inferred)

“It's proven really helpful for me”
“a piece of software called scrier which is originally for playwrights that allows you to move pieces around ... It's proven really helpful for me”— Sebastian Junger
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Peter Matthiessen

“the book or books that you have given to others most often as a gift at playing the fields of the Lord by Peter maon”
“at playing the fields of the Lord by Peter maon ... at play in the fields of the lord it's a novel by Peter mat it takes place in the jungles of South America”— Sebastian Junger
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Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

“which is just phenomenal I'm going to give that thing over and over again to everyone I know”
“I also recently read sapiens by a guy named Harari which is just phenomenal I'm going to give that thing over and over again to everyone I know”— Sebastian Junger
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A good axe

“one of the best values you can buy ... if I had to take pick one thing to take into the woods with me it would be an axe”
“one of the best values you can buy for $100 you can get for $100 is an axe a good axe ... you can basically do anything with it”— Sebastian Junger

The guest's own work

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Extreme Ownership

Jocko Willink (inferred)

“number one New York Times bestselling co-author of extreme ownership host of the toprated Joo podcast”— Tim Ferriss
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The Perfect Storm

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

“author of five New York Times bestsellers including the perfect storm and War and documentarian whose films include Restrepo”— Tim Ferriss
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War

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

“author of five New York Times bestsellers including the perfect storm and War”— Tim Ferriss
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Restrepo

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington (inferred)

“documentarian whose films include Restrepo winner of the grand jury prize at Sundance”— Tim Ferriss
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In My Time of Dying

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

“Sebastian's new book Is In My Time of Dying you can find him on Twitter”— Tim Ferriss
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Sebastian Junger (inferred)

“the book I'm holding in my hand which is tribe subtitle on homecoming and belonging ... I read this in a day and a half”— Tim Ferriss

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Thomas Paine (biography)

“I'm reading the biography of Thomas Payne one of the um intellectual fathers of American independence from Britain in the 1770s”— Sebastian Junger
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The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

“mat also wrote In Search of the snow leopard or am I getting that that's right yeah yeah yeah fantastic writer”— Sebastian Junger