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Find a book for the question you’re carrying. Follow a reading path through philosophy, spiritual traditions, creative work, and building a life of your own.
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Tim Ferriss
Ferriss applies his 80/20 lifestyle-design lens to the human body — fat loss, muscle gain, sleep, sex, sport. Rather than write a comprehensive textbook, he delivers minimum-effective-dose protocols for each domain. Some claims (slow-carb diet, Occam protocol) are well-supported; others (cold thermogenesis, ice-bath weight loss) are speculative. The 80/20 framework is the contribution; treat specific protocols as hypotheses.
8 min guide
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David Goggins
Part autobiography of a Navy SEAL / Army Ranger / ultramarathoner who weighed 297 lbs at 24, part operating manual for deliberate suffering as a life strategy. Goggins argues mental toughness is not a trait but a trained response — you callus the mind the way you callus hands. Unpleasant. Effective.
6 min guideSome of the books in this library are not just reading recommendations — they are sources for deep research articles. Where four library books cluster around one idea, you can read the meta-article that synthesises them.
Blue Zones · Ikigai · AI Era
Kamiya (1966), Buettner (2005), García & Miralles (2016), Mogi (2017) — the lineage of ikigai from psychiatric foundation to global bestseller, with an honest reckoning of the 2014 Western Venn. 12-minute read.
Some of these sources changed how I build, teach, and create. My books turn that reading into original frameworks, with the influences kept visible.
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