Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
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Lao Tzu
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This book by Lao Tzu has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Ivanka Trump, Michael Gervais. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-01-14 and the most recent from 2026-04-09. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I love lu and the taq ching is an amazing it kind of reminds me of like the philosophy of of jiujitsu”— Ivanka Trump
The guest here is Ivanka Trump: Businesswoman, former real estate and fashion executive, and ex-White House senior advisor. Daughter of Donald Trump, she built a fashion line doing close to $800M in annual sales before shutting it down to serve in government. Ivanka Trump on growing up in the spotlight, finding signal in the noise, walking away from an $800M business, and life after the White House.
“they gave us uh tao te ching yeah okay um which is a fascinating read if you i'm sure that you spent some time with it”— Michael Gervais
The guest here is Michael Gervais: Dr. Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist who has worked with Olympic gold medalists, the Seattle Seahawks, the U.S. armed forces, and extreme athletes like Felix Baumgartner. He holds a PhD in psychology with an emphasis in performance and focuses on the science of mindset, fear, and mastery. Performance psychologist Michael Gervais on extinguishing fear, building a philosophy, mindfulness, and creating high-performance culture.
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