#436: Books I've Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen&nbsp;&nbsp;| Brought to you by&nbsp;<a href="http://audible.com/tim" target="_blank">Audible</a>.Welcome to another episode of&nbsp;<a href="http://tim.blog/podcast?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-description" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.”&nbsp;I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have influenced them, changed them, and transformed them for the better.&nbsp;I hope you pick up one or two new mentors—in the form of books—from this new series and apply the lessons in your own life.Maria Popova&nbsp;(<a href="https://twitter.com/brainpicker" target="_blank">@brainpicker</a>) is a reader and a writer who writes about what she reads on&nbsp;<a href="https://brainpickings.org/" target="_blank">Brain Pickings</a>, which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Figuring-Maria-Popova-ebook/dp/B07D6BPV9B/?tag=offsitoftimfe-20" target="_blank">Figuring</a>,&nbsp;the editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/20/a-velocity-of-being-letters-to-a-young-reader/" target="_blank">A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader</a>, and the creator and&nbsp;host of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/the-universe-in-verse/" target="_blank">The Universe in Verse</a>, an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry at the interdisciplinary cultural center&nbsp;<a href="https://pioneerworks.org/initiatives/observatory-at-pioneer-works/" target="_blank">Pioneer Works</a>&nbsp;in Brooklyn.Tyler Cowen&nbsp;(<a href="https://twitter.com/tylercowen" target="_blank">@tylercowen</a>) has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/commentary/my-personal-moonshot" target="_blank">a personal moonshot</a>: to teach economics to more people than anyone else in the history of the world—and he might just succeed. In addition to his regular teaching at&nbsp;<a href="https://www2.gmu.edu/" target="_blank">George Mason University</a>, Tyler has blogged every day at&nbsp;<a href="https://marginalrevolution.com/" target="_blank">Marginal Revolution</a>&nbsp;for almost 17 years, helping to make it one of the most widely read economics blogs in the world. Tyler cocreated&nbsp;<a href="https://mru.org/" target="_blank">Marginal Revolution University</a>, a free online economics education platform that’s reached millions. 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#436: Books I've Loved — Maria Popova and Tyler Cowen

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