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Gold
Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
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Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
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This book by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori has come up 4 times on Tim Ferriss. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-02-24 and the most recent from 2025-12-04. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“It's called gold. It's by Roomie and then the translator Hala Liza Gapori... if you read one or two of these poems before you go to bed at night, it just makes everything better.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Kevin Rose: Tech investor, founder (Digg, Revision3, Dignation), and Tim Ferriss's longtime co-host on The Random Show; involved with the Way meditation app and an active early-stage AI investor. Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose riff on accelerated brain stimulation, the AI race, Alzheimer's prevention, gift gear, and modern dating.
“Hallelua Gapori's translations of Roomie, there's one collection called Gold, I think is a great entry point.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Kevin Rose: Investor, entrepreneur, and Tim Ferriss's longtime co-host on The Random Show. Referenced in this solo community episode rather than appearing in conversation. Tim Ferriss fields community Q&A on his three life commandments, AI, stoicism, writing, and the future of his fiction projects.
“I also have reread now multiple times this collection of newly translated Rumi, called Gold, by Haleh Liza Gafori.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Kevin Rose: Kevin Rose with Tim Ferriss. Tim and Kevin swap affordable luxuries, brain-stimulation experiments, books, supplements, gear, and AI investing ideas in a free-ranging Random Show.
“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
The guest here is John Vervaeke: Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of Toronto, director of its Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory, and creator of the YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis and After Socrates. Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke unpacks four ways of knowing, flow, wisdom, and how an ecology of practices addresses the meaning crisis.
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