Robert Greene
12 things Robert uses or recommends, from 3 episodes.
Robert's top picks
What Robert uses or recommends most, ranked by how often and how strongly. Paid ads are left out.
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"So there's this company called Visconti, Italian company. They make wonderful fountain pens, and they have this one fountain pen called Homo Sapiens, which is my favorite."
Uses and recommends it · 1 episode
"They have these beautiful bottles of ink and I have sepia, which I love. It's a beautiful color, sepia. It's this weird brown, yellow-brown for an ink. It's magnificent. I have black. I have turquoise and I have red."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"He calls it self-remembering. I talk about it in the book... So my point is it's an exercise that can literally alter your neurology in some way. It can alter how you perceive things. It doesn't require drugs. It requires this kind of intense focus."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"There are very interesting books. A book I highly recommend called After. It's an excellent book, by a scientist. His name is Bruce Greyson, something like that. He's studied all of these near-death experiences."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"You have to be willing to commit to the time and you have to journal and you have to write about yourself and you have to go deep into your memories. You have to think about your childhood."
Recommends it · 1 episode
"The most insanely beautiful paintings you've ever seen. You can watch a documentary by Werner Herzog about that and you can see it for yourself. It's called Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the Chauvet cave in the south of France."
All 12 of Robert's picks
- Visconti Homo Sapiens Uses and recommends it "So there's this company called Visconti, Italian company. They make wonderful fountain pens, and they have this one fountain pen called Homo Sapiens, which is my favorite." Only Robert
- Visconti Ink Uses and recommends it "They have these beautiful bottles of ink and I have sepia, which I love. It's a beautiful color, sepia. It's this weird brown, yellow-brown for an ink. It's magnificent. I have black. I have turquoise and I have red." Only Robert
- New Testament Uses it "First of all, I have deep respect for religions, and I recently reread the New Testament and it was just like, it's an incredibly beautiful document. Just as literature, it's so beautiful." Only Robert
- Gospel of Matthew Uses it "I was raised Jewish, but when you read the New Testament, it's beautiful and the ideas in it are beautiful. So, I went back and I reread the Book of Matthew." Only Robert
- Horowitz plays Scarlatti Uses it "I'm listening to this recording of Scarlatti, this composer, by Horowitz, the famous pianist. And I'm trying to like get inside of each note and follow the music as it flows." Only Robert
- Peyote Uses it "I can remember taking one particular trip on peyote in the town of Mendocino up on the coast in Northern California and I'll never forget the experience and how it altered how I look at just life itself." Only Robert
- Putting your phone in a drawer Uses it "I do, but of course I'm human and it tempts me and I understand the addiction... I do have to take the phone and put it in the drawer and I'm getting better and better at it." Only Robert
- Self-remembering Recommends it "He calls it self-remembering. I talk about it in the book... So my point is it's an exercise that can literally alter your neurology in some way. It can alter how you perceive things. It doesn't require drugs. It requires this kind of intense focus." Only Robert
- After Recommends it "There are very interesting books. A book I highly recommend called After. It's an excellent book, by a scientist. His name is Bruce Greyson, something like that. He's studied all of these near-death experiences." Only Robert
- Journaling Recommends it "You have to be willing to commit to the time and you have to journal and you have to write about yourself and you have to go deep into your memories. You have to think about your childhood." +11 others
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams Recommends it "The most insanely beautiful paintings you've ever seen. You can watch a documentary by Werner Herzog about that and you can see it for yourself. It's called Cave of Forgotten Dreams, the Chauvet cave in the south of France." Only Robert
- Dersu Uzala Recommends it "It's one of my favorite stories. They made a great movie out of it. The Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, I believe in the 80s, did a movie. It's called Dersu Uzala. I highly recommend you see it." Only Robert