Thinking Different with Jay Alto
Each week, Jay Alto reads a book and shares what he learns. The show distills key insights from each book into practical lessons. It's a personal take on personal development and knowledge. Listeners can expect a new topic every week.
Episodes
How to be a Stoic: Part 3 (Letters from a Stoic by Seneca)
Lessons from reading Letters from a Stoic by Seneca.
How to be a Stoic: Part 2 (The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus)
Lessons from reading The Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus.
How to be a Stoic (Meditations by Marcus Aurelius)
Lessons from reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
How to get what you want (The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli)
Lessons from reading The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli.
How to find purpose and meaning (Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl)
Lessons from reading Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
How to live deliberately (Walden by Henry David Thoreau)
Lessons from reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
How to do nothing (Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper)
Lessons from reading Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper.
How to be successful (Anything You Want & Your Music and People by Derek Sivers)
Lessons from reading Anything You Want & Your Music and People by Derek Sivers
How to think clearly (As a Man Thinketh by James Allen)
Lessons from reading As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
How to get rich and achieve happiness (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson)
Lessons from reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson.
How to think for yourself (Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens)
Lessons from reading Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens.
How to be successful (How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams)
Lessons from reading How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams.
How to win the game of life (Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse)
Lessons from reading Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse.
How to free yourself (The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello)
Lessons from reading The Way to Love by Anthony De Mello.
How to live (On the Shortness of Life by Seneca)
Lessons from reading On the Shortness of Life by Seneca.
How to be happy (Awareness by Anthony De Mello)
Lessons from reading Awareness by Anthony De Mello.
How to achieve self-actualization (Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow)
Lessons from reading Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow
How to achieve happiness (The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell)
Lessons from reading The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell.
How to be yourself (The Art of Being by Erich Fromm)
Lessons from reading The Art of Being by Erich Fromm.
How to live, according to Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs)
Lessons from reading Make Something Wonderful by Steve Jobs.
How to live a happy life (The Art of Living by Epictetus)
Lessons from reading The Art of Living by Epictetus.
How to overcome fear (Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland)
Lessons from reading Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.
How to do great work (How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham)
Lessons from reading How to Do Great Work by Paul Graham.
How to achieve mastery (Mastery by George Leonard)
Lessons from reading Mastery by George Leonard.
How to survive the modern world (Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham)
Lessons from reading Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham.
How to live a good life (How to Live by Derek Sivers)
Lessons from reading How to Live by Derek Sivers.
How to actually achieve greatness (Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Joel Lehman and Kenneth Stanley)
Lessons from reading Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Joel Lehman and Kenneth Stanley.
The 7 traits of highly creative people (Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Lessons from reading Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke.
How to become yourself (Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May)
Lessons from reading Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May.
How to be more creative (The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy)
Lessons from reading The Eternal Pursuit of Unhappiness by David Ogilvy.
How to be a contrarian (The Art of Contrary Thinking by Humphrey Bancroft Neill)
Lessons from reading The Art of Contrary Thinking by Humphrey Bancroft Neill.
Lessons from Nietzsche (The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche)
Lessons from reading The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The meaning of life, according to Albert Einstein (The World as I See It by Albert Einstein)
Lessons from reading The World as I See It by Albert Einstein.
How to resist conformity (Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Lessons from reading Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
What history can teach us (Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant)
8 lessons from reading Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant.
How to achieve mastery (The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin)
8 lessons from reading The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin.
How to do the work (The War of Art by Steven Pressfield)
12 lessons from reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
How to do great work (A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy)
8 lessons from reading A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy.
How to achieve self-mastery (The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey)
11 lessons from reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey.
How to achieve happiness (Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
15 lessons from reading Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
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