I would recommend The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Green. It's basically like a compendium of every single type of personality disorder or psychological effect. How do people warp their minds to make bad decisions? Uh what is a narcissist? What is a psychopath? All that kind of stuff. And Robert Green does such a great job of telling all that in a really engaging way by using storytelling. So every single chapter has a story about someone with that personality disorder. Um, so I love that
Lenny's Podcast, "I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea.", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the author "Green".
The other one that I love is a book by Felix Dennis called How to Get Rich. It's hilarious because the whole book starts out saying, "I got rich and I regret it and I wish that I'd become a poet and instead he went off and he built this huge publishing empire, became a poet in his 60s, and then he died of throat cancer." So it's his story. He basically says, "I'll tell you how to build the business even though you probably shouldn't." And I read that when I was in my 20s and I found it so exciting and inspiring and then I recently reread it and I was like, "Oh my god, why didn't I listen to this guy?
Lenny's Podcast, "I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea.", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
I love Challengers. Uh I don't know if you've seen it, but it's amazingly acted, amazing cinematography, and it's like this amazing uh like romantic triad tennis movie. Really, really good.
Lenny's Podcast, "I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea.", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
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