My favourite documentary, that’s lovely and everyone should watch, is called Water: The Great Mystery. It changed my perception of the whole planet more than maybe anything ever. Dr Masaru Emoto’s water research is very profound.
What is your favourite documentary, and what did it change for you?
Question
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
Money & investment
Let’s see. I like The Big Short. I’d read the book already. That was a good one. ... I find more than documentaries – I get a little impatient with documentaries because I find the point they’re trying to make could be made in ten minutes and we’re stretching it to an hour and 45 with pictures and unless those pictures are amazing, there’s a lot of other things I’d rather do.
Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 5 June 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 12 →
Alex Hallford
professional skateboarder
Wes Lindamood
designer and immersive-storytelling producer at NPR
What's your favorite documentary? I'm glad you asked. It's Errol Morris's film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control I saw this film at a festival in college, and in a single viewing it completely changed my perception of what a documentary could be. Since then, I've had an unrelenting obsession with documentary film.
Michael Gervais
Performance psychologist; host of the Finding Mastery podcast
I love documentaries. I really do. I think documentaries – I’m much more interested in non-fiction than fiction; just the way that I think about things. I can’t remember a documentary that I said, “That’s a bad documentary.” ... But as far as titles of documentaries? You know what was good was Amy. ... It was really good. The beauty and tragedy of an artistic genius.
Ricardo Semler
Chief executive and later chairman of Semco Partners, Brazil
My favorite documentary is one called Up. ... For your listeners, it’s a guy, Michael Apted who in 1964 decided to follow about a dozen or actually more kids from very different backgrounds and from the UK and some in orphanages, and some very well off to try and establish how much people are stuck to their context, to their social context. ... It’s quite an extraordinary way to look at humanity and see can people really escape their social constraints and their initial lay of life?
More from David Heinemeier Hansson
View profile →I have the question ready right here. I bought a skateboard about two months ago, which has a funny story in itself. ... I used to skateboard back when I was a kid, but literally had not skateboarded in 20 years. But I happen to live right now out here in California, where I’m just the perfect distance away from lunch that a skateboard is just what I need.
More on taste & recommendation
Also answered this
Pete Adeney, Michael Gervais, Ricardo Semler, Charlotte Cook, Brian Koppelman, Jim Loehr
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All taste & recommendation questions
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject