Sport & Adventure Stories
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“do a marathon a day. Those guys in Mexico from the Born to Run book? Exactly. Yeah. Taramara or whatever. Yeah, they run either barefoot or with small homemade shoes they make from rubber tires and shit.”
The Joe Rogan Experience · #2568 - Ross Edgley · 20/10/2026 · at 11:02
- 2Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounderby Kenny Moore · 1 episode
“I like track enough that I read, you know, the book about Bowerman, the coach up at Oregon. Like the men of Oregon is a really, he was another one of these amazing coaches that was much more of a mentor and teacher.”
Huberman Lab · How to Improve Your Memory & Cognitive Function at Any Age | Dr. Alan Castel · 13/07/2026 · at 2:13:36
- 3Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disasterby Jon Krakauer · 1 episode
“Volta. It is difficult. Is that AI cake? What's going on here? Dude, apparently, so that guy, John Krakauer, who had the whole in the thin air thing, he wrote that book being like, nobody should do this. It's so dangerous. You can die. And he said, like, you know, years after it published, the guides called, like, what are those dudes called?”
Modern Wisdom · Jocko Willink, Matt McCusker & Jeff Dye - Mostly Wise #3 - #1139 · 20/08/2026 · at 42:30
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Michael Jordan: The Lifeby Roland Lazenby · 1 episode“And there's this great book called Michael Jordan, The Life. It's like 700 pages long. It's by this guy named Roland Lazably. And I've read that book twice. It fundamentally changed my life.”
Modern Wisdom · 14 Patterns Behind the World’s Greatest Minds - David Senra - #1126 · 20/07/2026 · at 37:46
- 5The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Bodyby Ross Edgley · 1 episode
“Other stuff I did that really helped, I read The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holliday. I read The Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley. And I watched Resurfaced, which is an Amazon Prime documentary about Andy Murray's hip replacement. All of these were suggested by friends who'd been through other horrendous injuries and come back from it.”
Modern Wisdom · Q&A: Becoming A Dad, Favourite Peptides & Red Rising - #1134 · 08/08/2026 · at 10:09