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Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change?

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Alex Honnold Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
some of the most noteworthy books I’ve read I guess, like A People’s History of the US, the Howard Zinn book totally changed the way I look at politics. And then in the same way I read a book recently called Sacred Economics that like totally changed the way I looked at economics.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 1 January 2018 source ↗

Whitney Cummings Comedian and writer; co-creator of 2 Broke Girls
I believe that I had something called epigenetic imprinting, which I actually read about in a book called The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine. Not to self-promote too much, but I loved it so much I wrote a movie with a brilliant comedian named Neil Brennan and made the move this year. That’s how profoundly it changed my life, because I believe that the more we know about our neural brain wiring, the more freedom we have and the more patience we have with ourselves.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 21 June 2018 source ↗

Alexis Ohanian Co-founder of Reddit; founder of Seven Seven Six
That really crystallized for me what some really passionate founders who could write some code could do to change things, and this gave me the confidence to say, “You know what? They can do this. We can definitely do this.” ... So without a doubt, Reddit would not exist if it weren’t for Masters of Doom.

Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 14 May 2020 source ↗

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