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3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter discusses the 3 most formative books of one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Brené Brown, David Sedaris, Malcolm Gladwell, Roxane Gay, Cheryl Strayed, Rich Roll, Soyoung the Variety Store Owner, Derek the Hype Man, Kevin the Bookseller, Shirley The Nurse, Vishwas the Uber Driver, Angie Thomas, David Mitchell, Surgeon Ge ...
I felt trapped early in the pandemic. I normally walk every day in downtown Toronto. I write on park benches and in distant coffee shops and love popping into bookstores and bumping into friends. I am very privileged in that I get to travel one or two days a week, too. But then: the pandemic. It hit hard and I was suddenly sitting in a makeshift of…
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Chapter 121: Johann Hari on deleting devious dogma and discovering deeper designs
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Happy full moon, everybody! Do you feel like the world today -- our culture today -- is pulling us further and further away from things that matter? Like deep in-person, real-life, human connections. Like the ability to focus on things that require deep thought, care, and time -- like reading books. Are you feeling yourself sucked into the algorith…
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[Oscar Encore!] Daniels existentially explore everything everywhere
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Happy new moon, everybody! I have a very special Oscar Encore episode for you today -- in celebration of our guests little-film-that-could EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE scoring 11 (11!) Oscar nominations. Yes, the Oscars goes down in a few weeks on March 12th and it just seems worth pausing on how this remarkable non-sequel, non-superhero, palt…
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Chapter 120: Timothy Goodman on popping privilege paradigms and paving personal paths
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Happy Snow Moon, everybody! I've been thinking a lot again about what makes life important. I'm convinced it's just not social media. News media. The endless firehose of negativity being blasted at our brains out there. No. It's not that. It's the curtains we pull around ourselves and our loved ones to create and hold space to be our truest selves.…
Happy new moon! Today I’m sharing a recent conversation I had with veteran journalist Matt Galloway for his show The Current. Hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 119: Steve Toltz on refining writing rituals and raising ravenous readers
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What is your favorite novel? It's a hard question. A big question! A question that makes most people hmmm for a while before they get to an answer. If they get to an answer! But I think I know mine. My favorite novel is A Fraction of a Whole by Steve Toltz. First, the book came to me in an interesting way. I walked into wonderful indie bookstore Ty…
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Chapter 118: Catherine Hernandez poses for positivity with pride and presence
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Do you ever have a book go viral through your family? Your aunt reads it and tells everyone at dinner. The copy gets passed along. A few more dog ears show up. The spine gets cracked. And a year later half a dozen people have read it? Well that's what happened in our family with Catherine Hernandez's wonderful debut novel Scarborough. I even just p…
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The Best of 2022: Neil Pasricha winds and wades through wandering wisdoms
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Can you believe it? We started 3 Books back on March 31, 2018 with the goal of counting down the 1000 most formative books in the world. We said we would hang out on the exact minute of every single new moon and every single full moon for nearly 15 straight years until we collected all 1000 of them. We set the intention of making this show an ‘intr…
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Chapter 117: Ajay Agrawal and Gina Buonaguro on puzzling pasts and portending possibilities
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On the heels of launching my latest book, Our Book of Awesome, I’m enjoying the fellowship of two authors in my life — one of whom I met 22 years ago when I was in my final year at Queen’s. Bounding into my life at the time came a young professor named Ajay Agrawal. And I mean bounding! He was cold calling left, right and center, dancing around the…
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Bookmark: Our Book of Awesome Book Launch Special
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My new book Our Book of Awesome comes out today! Grab a copy at www.ourbookofawesome.com
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Chapter 116: Bryan Stevenson on handling haunting histories with heart and hope
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I got a phone call at 1-833-READ-A-LOT from Austin Wong in Oregon telling me we had to get Bryan Stevenson on 3 Books. I looked into Austin’s request and came upon Bryan's incredible bestseller Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. I listened to his 10-million plus hit TED Talk "We need to talk about an injustice" and approached the Equal …
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Chapter 115: Gabor Maté targets toxic triggers to transcend trauma
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Let’s flash back to Budapest Hungary in 1944 where a little baby boy named Gabor lay crying in his crib. He wouldn’t stop. Couldn’t stop. His mother called the doctor who said, “All my Jewish babies are crying”. Nazis had taken over the country and killed Gabor’s grandparents in Auschwitz. Gabor’s dad was put into forced labor and his aunt was miss…
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Chapter 114: Light Watkins on Mexico's marvels, meditation myths, and mental mastery
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Five years ago I was invited down to Brooklyn to speak at an event called The Shine Movement. It was an intriguing soul-refueling combination of meditation, drumming, giving, and a few words by me. The event attracted a fascinating subculture of people and I felt slightly entranced meeting the man and mind behind it all: Light Watkins. Light Watkin…
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Chapter 113: Alie Ward oozes originality over odysseys and ologies
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Oh hey. It’s the person who just dropped their phone on the bus right when the driver hit the gas and now the phone’s sliding across the sandy floor all the way to the back… Neil. Neil Pasricha. And now it is finally time for our much-anticipated 3 Books chapter with the one and only ... Alie Ward. Alie is the Sacramento-raised youngest of 3 girls …
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Chapter 112: Katie Mack on cultivating curiosity and contemplating the cosmos
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I want to make you dizzy. I want to make you look up into the sky and comprehend, maybe for the first time, the darkness that lies beyond the evanescent wisp of the atmosphere, the endless depths of the cosmos, a desolation by degrees These two lines begin an incredible poem called “Disorientation”... by Katie Mack. Did you feel dizzy reading it? I…
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Bookmark: The two-minute morning rule for having a great day
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Happy Equinox! Today the sun is directly above the equator so no matter where you are the day and the night are around equal length. Two equinoxes and two solstices give us four pause points between our regular scheduled lunar programming to drop a little bookmark in the midst of our epic journey about formative books. Today I want share the two-mi…
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Chapter 111: Austin Kleon draws on doodling to design and dream
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Buckle up! Today we are flying down to hot, hot Austin, Texas where we’re going to grab three chairs on the grackle-filled patio of Mi Madre’s restaurant and order ourselves some enchiladas and #0 breakfast tacos before having lunch with the wise and wonderful Austin Kleon. Austin in Austin — a treat! Austin Kleon is “a writer who draws” and the au…
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Chapter 110: Kevin Kelly on quashing quandaries with curiosity and creativity
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Kevin Kelly is a man of many titles. Krista Tippett calls him a ‘philosopher technologist’, Tim Ferriss calls him ‘the world’s most interesting man’, and Stephen J. Dubner says simply, “If I was the Queen, I would want Kevin Kelly on my Privy Council.” Kevin Kelly is the first person — ever! — to be hired online. When? 1983. For what job? A fascina…
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Chapter 109: Rebecca the Sex Educator on embracing erotic exploration
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What is your erotic potential? And how might you ... increase it? Online erotica? Mindful masturbation? Solo nude mirror practices? The answer is all of the above and much, much more. To help guide us through the erotic bramblebush (erotic bramblebush? erotic bramblebush!) we are very lucky to sit down with the wise and wonderful Rebecca S. Kay. Re…
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Chapter 108: Mohsin Hamid on the pleasures of pages and the pulse of Pakistan
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Mohsin Hamid is one of the greatest writers of this generation. He was born in 1971 in Lahore, Pakistan before moving to California at age 3 while his dad did a doctorate at Stanford. At age 9, in 1980, he moved back to Pakistan and remained there until he was 18 when he came back to the US to go to Princeton. He graduated summa cum laude and studi…
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Chapter 107: Latanya and Jerry build biblio buzz on the Bronx Bound Books bus
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Happy full moon! Hard to believe we are halfway through our fifth year of this epic pilgrimage. Are you up for going to the Bronx to hang out on a book bus? What!? Well, a few months ago I got an email from 3 Booker Karen where she said “Hi Neil. I love this! Have you seen it?” The this was this video, going viral, about a woman in the Bronx trying…
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Chapter 106: Alok Vaid-Menon battles binary boundaries and beauty biases
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Alok ("A-loke") Vaid-Menon was born in College Station, Texas in 1991 to parents from India and Malaysia. When they were young they’d dress up in their mom and sister’s clothes and dance around the living room for all their extended family, including their Auntie Urvashi (a gender non-confirming lesbian of color and national activist). The entire r…
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Bookmark: How to help someone with anxiety or depression
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Happy Summer Solstice! (and happy Winter Solstice!) Have you noticed we're tilting further toward the sun compared to every other time of the year? While our Australian, Chilean, and Easter Islander friends are tilting further away? This means is time for another 3 Book bookmark -- our relatively recent innovation to add a little spice to our 333 c…
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Chapter 105: Nancy the Librarian on the riches and rewards of resplendent reading
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Nancy Pearl is a Superhero Librarian. One of our values on 3 Books is “Librarians and booksellers are doctors for the mind” and while we’ve hung out with a number of booksellers, Nancy is somehow our very first librarian! How did we find Nancy? Well, 3 Booker Cindy Sharek left us a gushing voicemail at 1-833-READ-A-LOT singing Nancy’s praises and w…
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Chapter 104: Boniface Mwangi combats corrosive Kenyan corruption with courage and kindness
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Boniface Mwangi is a Nairobi-based social justice activist fighting for equity in his home country and abroad. In 2007 his photos of violence following the national election went viral and spawned global attention on political instability and corruption in Kenya. He is the subject of the Sundance-award winning documentary Softie and the author of t…
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Chapter 103: Jonathan Haidt on mirrory misconceptions and morality in the matrix
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Jonathan Haidt is the Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business and the author of bestsellers The Righteous Mind, The Happiness Hypothesis and The Coddling of the American Mind. He has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, selected as one of the Top 50 Thinkers in the world, and delivered four TED Tal…
