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Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?
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Jason Khalipa

American Crossfit athlete

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I read a lot. I think there are some really poor books at the airport, I really do. For me, I like more of a practical application book. I like a book like Mark Cuban’s Sport of Business. I Like it because it gets me fired up. I like it because it’s a real story from a real guy, just saying it like it is and it’s easy reading. It’s not so analytical and things like that. So that’s the book I like.

Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 June 2018 source ↗

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Larry King Broadcaster; host of Larry King Live on CNN, 1985–2010
I guess, through life, it’s Catcher in the Rye . I love that book. I read it at four different times in my life. Teenager and later.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 30 May 2018 source ↗
Kyle Maynard American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter
A [inaudible 00:42:55] is an article that I know that you’ve recommended a bunch that I’ve gifted to all my entrepreneur friends is 1,000 True Fans .
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 19 December 2021 source ↗
Andrew Weil Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona
Yes. One is a translation of Lao Tzu by a man named Witter Bynner. It’s called The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu . It’s beautiful translations. And I find those verses which were the sole output of this philosopher to be remarkably right on. Another book that I’ve given out a lot recently is We by Robert Johnson, a Jungian psychoanalyst that’s subtitled The Psychology of Romantic Love . A very short, easily read book about the traps that people get themselves into in romantic relationships. That’s one that I like very much. Jeez, I have a whole bunch out there.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 10 December 2018 source ↗
Shinya Yamanaka Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
A book also pushed me to become a medical doctor. I was deeply inspired by Torao Tokuda, a physician who founded a hospital group in the 1970s that tried to revolutionize the Japanese medical care system.
Recorded Laureate-written autobiography for Les Prix Nobel, Nobel Prize Outreach, 1 December 2012 source ↗

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