Book · recommended on 10 episodes
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan ISBN 9780735224155
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Michael Pollan ISBN 9780735224155
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This book by Michael Pollan has come up 10 times across 3 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss. 7 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Adam Gazzaley, Joe Rogan, Michael Pollan, Steven Bartlett, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-10-08 and the most recent from 2026-03-26. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third.
“people who have been doing this since before Michael Pollan's exceptional book, How to Change Your Mind”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author, podcaster, and early-stage investor; solo Q&A host answering pre-submitted and live audience questions about AI, careers, creativity, and life. Tim Ferriss answers listener questions on the AI tsunami, arguing offline, relational, and in-real-life advantages matter more as machines eat white-collar work.
“you've kind of explored consciousness a little bit with your psychedelic book, yeah. How to change your mind.”— Michael Pollan
The guest here is Michael Pollan: Bestselling author of food and psychedelics books like 'How to Change Your Mind' and 'The Omnivore's Dilemma.' He teaches writing and reports immersively on science, diet, and the mind. Michael Pollan joins Joe Rogan to explore consciousness, plant intelligence, psychedelics, AI sentience, and the gut microbiome.
“Dr Carl Hart all these different people Michael Polland and his amazing book all these people that are talking about these experiences now”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Rick Doblin: Founder and president of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies); psychedelic researcher who pioneered MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD through decades of FDA clinical trials. MAPS founder Rick Doblin on pushing MDMA therapy through the FDA, ibogaine for addiction, debunking psychedelic myths, and the ethics of commercializing sacred substances.
“If you want a good overview, I think How to Change Your Mind is a great place to start”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Dr. Andrew Huberman: Neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University's School of Medicine, and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. Andrew Huberman walks Tim Ferriss through his weekly training split, supplement stack, and the five daily foundations of physical and mental performance.
“I would recommend to those who haven't read it how to change your mind by Michael pollen gives a pretty good overview”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy: Associate professor of psychopharmacology at the University of Auckland who leads the Auckland Neuropsychopharmacology Research Group; ran the world's first RCT of LSD microdosing and has studied ketamine, scopolamine, and TMS in depressed patients. Psychopharmacologist Dr. Suresh Muthukumaraswamy explains ketamine, classical psychedelics, and the first randomized LSD microdosing trial run in New Zealand.
“It was like I wasn't allowed in the industry until I'd read your book, right? Um How to change your mind.”— Steven Bartlett
The guest here is Michael Pollan: Bestselling author and journalist (How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma) known for immersive reporting on food, psychedelics, caffeine and consciousness. Author Michael Pollan on how psychedelics and caffeine reshape the mind, the science of consciousness, and breaking rigid habits of thought.
“one first step there is to introduce them to How to Change Your Mind, the book by Michael Pollan. And if they're willing to read that”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show. This is a solo Q&A episode where he both asks and answers, fielding live-chat and pre-submitted listener questions. Tim Ferriss answers live and submitted Q&A on sleep, parenting, fear, mood, psychedelics, learning, and travel.
“he is the author of eight books including how to change your mind which has changed many minds indeed”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Michael Pollan: Bestselling author of eight books including How to Change Your Mind and The Omnivore's Dilemma, and a longtime New York Times Magazine contributor who teaches writing at Harvard and UC Berkeley. His newest book is This Is Your Mind on Plants, examining three psychoactive plants: caffeine, opium, and mescaline. Michael Pollan explores caffeine, opium, and mescaline, the history and politics of the drug war, and the future of psychedelic medicine.
“the first thing was reading michael pollan's book uh how to change your mind i know you're also friends with michael and i did not know him at the time”— Adam Gazzaley
The guest here is Dr. Adam Gazzaley: David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF and founder/executive director of Neuroscape, a translational neuroscience center building brain-optimization tools. He is co-founder of Akili Interactive, maker of the first FDA-cleared video game treatment. Neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley on FDA-cleared video game medicine and launching a UCSF psychedelic research division with Robin Carhart-Harris.
“Michael Pollan, for those interested, his book How to Change Your Mind is exceptional. I also have two interviews with him on this podcast.”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Dr. Mark Plotkin: Ethnobotanist and president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which partners with 55 tribes to map and manage 80 million acres of ancestral rainforest. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, he has spent four decades studying shamans and healing plants of tropical America and authored Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice. Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin on Amazon shamans, real vs fake healers, hallucinogens like yopo and ayahuasca, and preserving rainforest medicine.
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