Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Self-Renewal
John Gardner ISBN 1014409187
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John Gardner ISBN 1014409187
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This book by John Gardner has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Jim Collins. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-07 and the most recent from 2026-03-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“He had written a great book, a little book, back a number of years ago on self-renewal”— Jim Collins
The guest here is Jim Collins: Researcher and author of Good to Great, Built to Last, and Great by Choice; here discussing his new book What to Make of a Life: Cliffs, Fog, Fire, and the Self-Knowledge Imperative, the product of 12+ years of research. Jim Collins joins Tim Ferriss to explore his new book on cliffs, fog, encodings, and getting a return on luck across a whole life.
“john wrote a marvelous book in 1962 by the title of self-renewal and i went down the hall to john and i said i'd like to do research on this”— Jim Collins
The guest here is Jim Collins: Researcher and teacher of what makes great companies endure, and a Socratic advisor to leaders. Author or co-author of six books (including Good to Great and Built to Last) that have sold more than 10 million copies. Jim Collins returns to discuss mentors, the power of small gestures, light vs. dark motivation, the Stockdale Paradox, and renewing over a lifetime.
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