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Managing stress during a difficult personal year (divorce and daughter's medical emergency)

"I did meditate during this challenging year. I was in the middle of a divorce and it really helped, and I probably should find 20 minutes a day to meditate."

Bill Ackman

Understanding growth, perspective-taking, and the ability to see the same thing differently as you mature

"I really love Anna Karenina. I've been rereading the classics lately. I love Anna Karenina because it's a book of layers. When I was 13 and I read it, I understood basically the plot. When I read it at 17, I understood the European history dynamics and the ..."

Tara Seshan

"You got to watch Apocalypse Now. There's such great beautiful remasterings of that movie. It's visually beautiful. That's a fantastic movie."

Cal Newport

Listening to classics via audiobook while walking

"Some books that I think I should listen to and haven't ever gotten around to reading. I did Moby Dick that way."

Gary Gallagher

"If you haven't read Alice in Wonderland. You should go read Alice in Wonderland. Read the whole thing just quotes from it."

Tim Ferriss

Illustration of finding significance in everyday roles rather than grand public ambition; the Thomas More and Richard Rich exchange about being a teacher

"If you haven't seen it, please go watch it. It's so good. I think it was in the 50s. It's called A Man for All Seasons."

Matthew Hussey

"American Werewolf in London — it's the best example. You barely see it. You see it for literally a half a second a few times in the early parts of the movie. Oh, you haven't seen it? Oh my god, it's amazing."

Joe Rogan

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Sports car driving with manual transmission

"I do have the E46 M3. The 2005. That was fucking awesome. That is literally a perfect car."

Joe Rogan

"I love Vonnegut. Cat's Cradle has been a fun recommendation and a copy that I bought many friends before."

Roman Ugarte

"Watch Citizen Kane. I'm obsessed with this movie. Wells invented like all of these techniques that now we're used to from sophisticated movies. They weren't in the movies before it. He just innovated the cinematography."

Cal Newport

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"Something you talk about as well in the book Conversation: How to be instantly likable in any interaction. I want everyone to get the book."

Lewis Howes

Cathartic reading for people going through heartbreak or a breakup; to see oneself in Oscar Wilde's experience of losing oneself in a relationship

"If you ever want a good read and a cathartic read, something where you'll see yourself in a breakup, in a heartbreak, read this book, De Profundis, which essentially means 'from the depths.' This is Oscar Wilde writing to his lover Bosie when he was in prison."

Matthew Hussey

Understanding the culture and counterculture of the era

"To this day if you read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail or if you read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or you any of his work you know the Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved like it's just a phenomenal encapsulation of that."

Joe Rogan

Fiction reading; understanding long-term civilizational thinking

"His longer book is good. Fiction and the Foundation series is so good."

Tobi Lütke

Repeated viewing to extract ongoing lessons and reinforce principles

"I've seen Godfather 2, I don't know, 15 times. I still learn stuff."

David Senra

Assigned reading in a graduate seminar on foundational 19th century texts

"I taught a graduate seminar at one point on foundational 19th century texts, and one of the texts I assigned in the class was Huckleberry Finn. And a lot of the students said they wouldn't read Huckleberry Finn because they knew it had language in it that t..."

Gary Gallagher

"I would say like let's go really old school. Um It's a Wonderful Life."

Christina Lee Storm

"I've been reading West I'm reading Lonesome Dove right now. It's like an old classic western and they just talk about how hot they are all day long."

Matt McCusker

Watching as a horror/vampire film

"I think Nosferatu is the best vampire movie of all time. It's more terrifying than all of them. It's more hypnotic. He's got powers over people. The way he influences people — it's creepy. It's so well done. Watch it."

Joe Rogan

"everybody should read I think it's Percy Shelley. Ozymandias. Everybody should find this. So good. Everybody should read Ozymandias."

Tim Ferriss