The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days — Martha Beck

The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

Boyd Varty

“He's the author of The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life... beautiful little book, which I've read multiple times. And he is one hell of a guy.”— Tim Ferriss

Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation)

Stephen Mitchell

“I read Stephen's version of the Tao Te Ching right around the time I had the white light experience... it was like my nervous system caught fire when I read that version.”— Martha Beck

Self-Therapy

Jay Earley

“There are books out there, one is called Self-Therapy by Jay Earley that tells it with little illustrations and everything to tell you how to use it.”— Martha Beck

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

“it's time for me to go back and reread Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, probably. Martha Beck: Yeah, that's a great book.”— Martha Beck

Trickster Makes This World

Lewis Hyde

“There is a really fun book... Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde... It's fascinating. Really fun book if people want to get into trickster mythology.”— Tim Ferriss

Make Good Art (commencement speech)

Neil Gaiman

“Make Good Art, a commencement speech by Neil Gaiman is unbelievably good, and watch the actual delivery. Watch the video”— Tim Ferriss

I Think You're Fat (Esquire article)

A.J. Jacobs

“if people want to read something very funny, there's an article, it's an old article from Esquire called I Think You're Fat by a friend of mine, A.J. Jacobs.”— Tim Ferriss

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri (inferred)

“And I wrote a whole book on this based on The Divine Comedy because Dante starts that book just saying, In the middle of my life”— Martha Beck

Loving What Is

Byron Katie

“I saw this book by a woman named Byron Katie, and it said, With a forward by Stephen Mitchell... So I bought the book, got on a plane, read the book.”— Martha Beck

The Work of Byron Katie

Byron Katie

“they can find The Work by Byron Katie online... It's called The Work of Byron Katie. And you can go online and download free things.”— Tim Ferriss

Eat, Pray, Love

Elizabeth Gilbert

“well, Liz said it, Eat, pray, love. Now, it is time for something that is beautiful to change into something else that is beautiful.”— Martha Beck

Faust

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“All I can think about is Faust now and how he talks about the bargain with The Devil. I think we all make a bargain with The Devil metaphorically”— Martha Beck

Eddie Izzard comedy routines

Eddie Izzard

“I made them lie down on the living room floor and watch Eddie Izzard routines on TV while I brought them ice cream for about three days.”— Martha Beck

Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk (My Stroke of Insight)

Jill Bolte Taylor

“the woman who had the left hemisphere stroke when she was a Harvard neuroanatomist. It was the first TED Talk to go viral”— Martha Beck

The Great British Baking Show

“You would probably go on The Great British Baking Show and outbake everyone in Britain.”— Martha Beck