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#118: Zen Meditation, Most Recommended Books, Competitiveness and Know Thyself with Richard Reis

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My guest today is Richard Reis. He is the co-founder of Most Recommended Books, a voracious reader and a blogger. Richard also enjoys finance and building stuff.

We discussed:

  1. Richard recently has done a three-month Zen Meditation retreat and shared his experience.
  2. What’s so unique about Zen Meditation compared with other meditation (e.g. mindfulness and TM)?
  3. Why should we focus on cultivating our intuition?
  4. What’s the motivation to build the Most Recommended Books?
  5. What’re the most recommended books in common?
  6. What’s Tim Ferriss’s effect?
  7. How to deal with self-doubt when building something new or running a startup?
  8. What traits of Larry Ellison worthy learning?
  9. Where does people’s competitiveness come from?
  10. What are the benefits of speaking multiple languages? Do people change personalities while speaking different languages?
  11. How to deal with loneliness and lack of community support while moving around very often?
  12. Is personality test the way to help Know Thyself?

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My guest today is Richard Reis. He is the co-founder of Most Recommended Books, a voracious reader and a blogger. Richard also enjoys finance and building stuff.

We discussed:

  1. Richard recently has done a three-month Zen Meditation retreat and shared his experience.
  2. What’s so unique about Zen Meditation compared with other meditation (e.g. mindfulness and TM)?
  3. Why should we focus on cultivating our intuition?
  4. What’s the motivation to build the Most Recommended Books?
  5. What’re the most recommended books in common?
  6. What’s Tim Ferriss’s effect?
  7. How to deal with self-doubt when building something new or running a startup?
  8. What traits of Larry Ellison worthy learning?
  9. Where does people’s competitiveness come from?
  10. What are the benefits of speaking multiple languages? Do people change personalities while speaking different languages?
  11. How to deal with loneliness and lack of community support while moving around very often?
  12. Is personality test the way to help Know Thyself?

Books and links mentioned in this episode:

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157 episodes

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