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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 ...
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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…
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Chapter 102: Susan Cain on bathing in beauty, books, and bittersweetness
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This is a very unique chapter! It is a double chapter, in a way. To begin with I was so lucky to interview Susan Cain at our very first live chapter of 3 Books at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. So many 3 Bookers came out and celebrated on a snowy night just before the pandemic began. (We had no idea!) At the time Susan was deep in the throes o…
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Chapter 101: Daniels existentially explore everything everywhere
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The best movie I have seen in years is called Everything, Everywhere All At Once and it was written and directed by Daniels. Daniels? Yes, Daniels. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, to be specific. Two brilliant artists who met in college and began stitching together short films before working on music videos like Turn Down For What by DJ Snake and…
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Chapter 100: Neil and Leslie on the creative chaos of craft and the kindness of committed community
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Welcome to Chapter 100! Thank you for four years of this journey and conversation. To mark the move into triple digits I thought we could do a reflection and visioning discussion … back in the basement with Leslie just like we did in Chapter 1. We will discuss some highs and lows, lessons learned, current podcast challenges, and some dreams for the…
Welcome to Bookmark #5. Last year we started experimenting with the idea of releasing four extra episodes during the year to mark the spring and fall equinoxes, as well as the summer and winter solstices. You may recall we released my guest appearance on Nora McInerny’s wonderful podcast, Terrible Thanks for Asking, we then released my SXSW Talk: B…
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Chapter 99: Doug the Bookseller on bookstore belonging and bottomless bibliomania
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Just dial 416-482-5665 and chances are Doug Miller will pick up the phone at Doug Miller Books, an incredible stuffed-to-the-ceiling bookstore that represents a mere sliver of the over 500,000-book collection of self-described bibliomaniac Doug Miller. Why do I say chances are? Well, Doug works in his shop 364 days a week. He comes mid-morning ever…
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Chapter 98: IN-Q invites intimacy, intentionality, and interstellar inquiry
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I’m very pleased, privileged, and proud to introduce or re-introduce you to the sunbeaming sage that is IN-Q. IN-Q is an award winning poet, multi-platinum song-writer and the bestselling author of the book Inquire Within which I highly, highly recommend. It deserves an even bigger spotlight! It’s a wonderful collection of IN-Q’s poetry. Poetry? Oh…
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Chapter 97: Debbie Millman shuns shame to spark spirit and sew soulful symbiosis
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Are you a passionate fan of Design Matters like I am? It’s one of the world’s oldest podcasts and one of the best shows out there. Debbie Millman scratches her insatiable curiosity and explores what it means to live a rich, fulfilling, intentional life with luminaries like Brené Brown, Cheryl Strayed, Brandon Stanton, Seth Godin, and, of course, Ro…
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Chapter 96: Dave the CEO on stratospheric strategizing and subtle secrets of success
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David Cheesewright is the former CEO of Walmart International. In that role he led over a million people, across over fifty different businesses, and nearly thirty countries. A behemoth! Both the job and the company. How much of a behemoth? Well, Walmart is literally #1 overall on the Fortune 500 which means no company in the entire world made more…
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Chapter 95: Bess Kalb on kvetching over koans and kindling comic kinship
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“Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend to know what I am talking about.” So begins a 2007 Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens called “Why Women Aren’t Funny”. College student Bess Kalb picked up a copy of the magazine, read it on her train ride from New York to Rhode Island, and, in he…
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Chapter 94: Dan the Tailor on rappelling rabbit-holes and rocking with Ronnie
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Daniel Torjman is beautiful. And so is his incredible store 18 Waits. Two years ago I was walking down Queen Street West in Toronto and I noticed a couple nice men’s shirts in a window and stepped inside. I was greeted by an old hardwood floor, jazz playing on a record, classic literature on display, and an incredibly curated assortment of shirts, …
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The Best of 2021: Neil Pasricha curates courageous, candid, and colorful conversations
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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 93: Chris Hadfield on the sci-fi and science of sustainable space settlement
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Hello 3 Bookers! Let’s close off our fourth year of 3 Books by sitting down with Chris Hadfield at his kitchen table. His five-month old puppy New Henry is sniffling and occasionally barking on his lap. Fat snowflakes slowly drift down outside the big window above the shelf full of succulents. And lying between us is a stack of Christmas cards that…
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Chapter 92: Edward Packard on amplifying awareness with awe and adventure
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Were you one of the 500 million people who read Choose Your Own Adventure books? When I was growing up in the 80s these books were at the front of every library in every elementary school. Or, at least, in mine! I know for sure the kids at Sunset Heights Public School in Oshawa, Canada all went gonzo for them. If you don’t know Choose Your Own Adve…
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Chapter 91: Nora McInerny on nixing numbers and nurturing naked needs
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Welcome to Chapter 91 of 3 Books! How are you holding up in 2021? It has been a wild 20 months. You’ve been telling me you are thankful for the show and I have been telling you I’m thankful for you. I appreciate your notes, your phone calls, your letters, and your reviews and we travel and meet across space and time — meeting up whenever the moon a…
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Chapter 90: Derek Sivers on shattering suppositions with Stoic soul
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Welcome. Have a seat on the couch. Plug your headphones in for the dishes. Strap in for the long car ride. Let’s chill for a bit. I’m so happy to have you as part of the 3 Books community. Welcome 3 Bookers! Welcome, Cover to Cover Club Members! And welcome, Secret Club Members. Thank you for being part of our ridiculous conversation over nearly 15…
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Chapter 89: Zafar the Hamburger Man on Bryant's basics and blossoming like Barack
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I was riding my bike in downtown Toronto the other day and rolled past my old neighborhood a couple blocks north of Lake Ontario. And as I was riding I noticed my old burger joint! The whole neighborhood has changed — parking lots have become condos, motels have become hotels — but the burger joint has survived. I was excited so I locked my bike up…
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Chapter 88: Mel Robbins on stalling self sabotage and celebrating sexual selectivity
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I love Mel Robbins. I am one of the 30 million people who’ve viewed her TED Talk “How to stop screwing yourself over” and I’m one of the two million people who have a copy of The Five-Second Rule on my bookshelf. If you asked me five years ago if I’d have a book on my shelf telling people to simply count backwards from five to get out of bed, ask s…
Happy Fall Equinox Northern Hemisphere people. And Happy Spring Equinox to our friends south of the equator! Are you ready for a new Bookmark? Just as a reminder, I’m experimenting with offering you a Bookmark four times this year. A little place to put the marginilia of this show. Six months ago on the Spring equinox we had our first bookmark with…
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Chapter 87: Jason Shiga on perilous puzzles and precarious paths
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I grew up reading the Choose Your Own Adventure series but it had been years — decades even! — since I’d read a game book. Then I stumbled upon the fascinating book Meanwhile by Jason Shiga and was completely sucked back into this incredible genre. When you open Meanwhile you are a young boy on his way to an ice-cream shop. If you get vanilla? You …
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Chapter 86: My two-year-old son on whimsical wonderings and wandering Waldos
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Do you ever feel book guilt? Do you ever feel book shame? Do you ever feel bad when you quit a book? Do you ever feel like the books you read aren’t ‘hard’ enough? These are common feelings that I know I’ve had. I say we need to get rid of all the book shame and book guilt we learn as we grow up because there really is no right or wrong way to read…
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Chapter 85: Jane McGonigal on slaying stress with superhero strengths
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Happy Sturgeon Moon, everybody! And happy Blue Moon, too! Jane McGonigal joins us on Chapter 85 of 3 Books to help us celebrate. Let’s start off with a question. What would you do if you jumped out of a desk chair and slammed your head directly into an open cupboard door which gave you a massive concussion that left you bedridden for months? Oh, an…
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Chapter 84: Lori Gottlieb on therapists thoughtfully thrashing thinking theories
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Do you have a therapist? Do you meet up with someone on a regular basis to open up, talk about yourself, and get into the weeds of your emotions? Maybe the ones you can articulate, the ones you can’t articulate, the ones you’re angry about having, the ones you’re confused about having. I started seeing a therapist about 10 years ago. After the loss…
