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Oct 11, 2026
This Is Exactly What We Would Do If We Only Had $100 TO Improve Our Lives (2582)
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8:49Kevin PalmieriHOST
Show it to the camera.
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8:51Kevin PalmieriHOST
We have Rationality by Steven Pinker, Atomic Habits by one James Clear.
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8:55Kevin PalmieriHOST
You're going the wrong way.
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8:56Kevin PalmieriHOST
[laughs] The Art of Impossible by one Steven Kotler, Essentialism by one Greg McKeown, and The Compound Effect by one Darren Hardy.
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10:01Alan LazarosHOST
Okay.
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10:02Alan LazarosHOST
Uh, let's say you did have the 100 bucks and you bought five used books of the- these books.
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10:09Alan LazarosHOST
Rationality, don't start there.
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10:11Alan LazarosHOST
That'll be the last one.
How to Read and Understand Difficult Books
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3:54speaker_3HOST
You understand the words and the sentences, but you don't quite understand the ideas.
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3:59speaker_3HOST
For this one, I'm thinking of Steven Pinker's Rationality.
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4:03speaker_3HOST
Uh, now this was written for a general audience, and he's actually really good about avoiding heavy jargon, so the language is really accessible.
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4:12speaker_3HOST
That's not really the problem.