3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
May 18, 2019•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 29
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
May 04, 2019•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 28
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 27
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Apr 02, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 26
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 25
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Mar 06, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 24
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Feb 19, 2019•59 min•Season 1Ep. 23
3 Books is a completely insane and totally epic 15-year-long quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world. Each chapter is hosted live and in-person at the guest's preferred location by Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation. Each chapter of 3 Books uncovers and discusses the three most formative books from one of the world's most inspiring people. Sample guests include: Judy Blume, David Sedaris, Chris Anderson of TED, a...
Feb 04, 2019•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 22
Were you one of the sixty million people who grew up reading Franklin The Turtle ? We were handed a dog-eared stack of them when my first son was born. As my wife and I flipped through them, we couldn't help but just buy into the whole Franklin universe. There's Beaver and Bear and Fox and good values and good parenting and good life lessons all delivered in a way that super appetizing for children… and their parents. So I expected Paulette to choose, you know, three children's books for her thr...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Do you remember Chapter 4 of 3 Books with Sarah Ramsey? She introduced me to BUST Magazine , the largest feminist magazine in the world, and waxed on about how BUST had incredible book recommendations… Well, they sure have a lot more than that. I picked up a copy of BUST and was blown away by the urgency, voice, and community. I also wasn't surprised to see The New York Times and Fast Company both profile BUST over the past few months. So I trucked down to Brooklyn to see if we could learn what'...
Jan 06, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 20
So here we are. It's 11:59pm on December 31, 2018 and we're releasing our first annual Best Of 3 Books for 2018. It's a time to look back. It's a time to look ahead. It's a time to look inside and think about which lessons, which insights, and which paths we will follow in the year ahead. For long time listeners of 3 Books, I hope this hopscotch through the first 19 of 333 chapters gives you poignant reminders, tiny amplifications, and little lightbulb ideas as you look to your year ahead. For n...
Jan 01, 2019•2 hr 11 min
Our next guest is the first billionaire entrepreneur of a global brand we've had on 3 Books. We fly over to Vancouver to talk with the founder and former CEO of Lululemon , Chip Wilson . Chip founded the company Westbeach , a snowboard, ski, and apparel company, which he eventually sold in 1997. Then one day while flipping through the paper, he came upon a piece of fascinating information… There are now more woman than men graduating from colleges and universities . Then he got all prophetic. "W...
Dec 22, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 19
I discovered David Sedaris after asking my college writing mentor how to become a better comedy writer. He handed me a strange looking book with a pair of boxer shorts on the cover … Naked by David Sedaris. I'd never heard of David before, but when I went home and started paging through his book, I was completely blown away. His autobiographical essays were incredibly sardonic, witty, and laugh-out-loud funny, and dealt with his homosexuality and his obsessive compulsive tics and dropping out of...
Dec 07, 2018•1 hr 42 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Have you ever looked through a bunch of greeting cards and felt like nothing reflected the way you feel? The greeting card industry is 150 years old, and yet they haven't quite mastered this skill yet… But Emily McDowell has. Emily has an uncanny ability to characterize the relationships we have, not the relationships we want to have . Emily runs Emily McDowell Studio, an online hub of greeting cards, tote bags, and other gifts that articulate things in an emotional way that we often can't expre...
Nov 23, 2018•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Did you know the average person lives for 1,000 months? Or that the average person is awake for 1,000 minutes per day? That's why I like the number 1,000 so much, and partly why I started my blog 1,000 Awesome Things about ten years ago. It's why I'm on this quest with you to uncover the 1,000 most formative books in the world. And that quest is what brought me to the independent bookstore Books & Books with Mitchell Kaplan. Why did I decide to sit down with Mitchell? Because he started the ...
Nov 07, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Oh, this life, this world. As Mitch says, once you find purpose, and once you find style… what's left? Beauty. What's left is finding and putting out beauty into the world. There are not many writers who have genuinely figured this out … but one of them is Mitch Albom. Mitch is the bestselling author of Tuesdays with Morrie , the bestselling memoir of all time , as well as The Five People You Meet in Heaven and his new book, The Next Person You Meet In Heaven , which just debuted at #1 on the Ne...
Oct 24, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 15
"On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time." Recognize that quote? It's from a conversation between Steve Wozniak and Stewart Brand at the very first Hacker's Conference in 1984. We've heard it so many times. Information wants to be free. And in many ways, it already is. We li...
Oct 09, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Do you remember the first person who introduced you to the love of reading? Was it a teacher? A parent? A friend? For me, it was my third-grade teacher . I remember on the first day of class we all gathered on this old, dusty green carpet and Mrs. Dorsman asked us all where we went that summer. "I went to Japan," she began, with her eyes bugged open, "… and to Australia … and the waterfalls of South America … and to the Moon… and to Mars!" And then she looked around the room and dropped the fina...
Sep 25, 2018•1 hr 43 min•Season 1Ep. 13
What was the first TED Talk you ever watched? Was it Do s chools kill creativity? by Ken Robinson? Was it The power of vulnerability by Brené Brown? Whatever it is I bet you felt a bit like you stumbled onto an oasis. The Internet is junky! The whole thing feels like a pack of cougars just ran through a dollar store. Pop-up everything, ads screaming at you, and everything feels like a fish-hooks tugging at your eyeballs. TED is the opposite. TED doesn't beg for personal info, force you to open a...
Sep 09, 2018•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our world is so full. Our world is so busy. Our world is so cluttered. Newspaper boxes. Pop-up ads. TVs in elevators. There are so many things trying to grab our attention. So many reaching out with their little fish lures to poke and grab us into signing up for their newsletters. Don't you ever feel like it's just too loud ? I say what we need in this world of constant stimulation are ... editors. Not the people who correct your spelling and grammar. I'm talking about those among us who can be ...
Aug 26, 2018•1 hr 36 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Do you make your own luck? Do you really control what happens? Or do you simply dump everything you can in the system, press the big green button, and then hang on for the hairy-scary ride? Elan Mastai is the award-winning screenwriter and novelist behind one of my favorite books of last year – the incredibly fast-paced, head-twisting, and emotionally moving sci-fi epic All Our Wrong Todays . I was crying hot salty tears when I reached its final pages and was delighted when Elan accepted my invi...
Aug 11, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Do you remember the comedy dry zone? I'm talking about the barren, hardscrabble times when getting a free laugh from the comfort of your toilet wasn't easy. Before Internet memes, before parody Twitter themes, before viral SNL skits, before ShowerThoughts subreddits, before LOLCats and even before giant email chats… … there was one man. The inimitable, indomitable, indefatigable Dave Barry . Beginning in 1983 and running for over twenty years, Dave Barry sent his syndicated humor column out to o...
Jul 27, 2018•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 9
It's getting tougher to grow up these days. We're surrounded by endlessly reflecting images of everyone else having fun without us. There are incredible pressures to achieve, to be ourselves and be different, to stand up and stand out, to follow big footsteps… and follow our hearts at the same time. A friend said to me the other day "When I was in high school and I'd stay at home on a Saturday night I assumed my friends did, too. Now my daughter sees all her friends out partying without her on s...
Jul 13, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 8
In this Chapter of 3 Books , I jump into the backseat of Vishwas Aggrawal's Uber and take a trip you won't soon forget. This is a story about setting your own standards in a world constantly hammering us into "human resources." This is a story about setting your own winning lines in a world that wants us to be widgets. This is a story about raising the bar for yourself and deeply valuing the human connection and love that has the potential to exist between every single one of us. Uber has no for...
Jun 28, 2018•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Did you grow up with Judy Blume? My mom says I "found my voice" reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to my sister in the bathtub when I was a little kid. Well, I grabbed that tattered copy and carried it with me down to Key West, Florida where I had the extreme privilege of sitting down with the one and only Judy Blume ( @JudyBlume ). Join us as Judy shares her three most formative books, how they inspired her, and we pull out some themes relevant to today. Judy and I met on a hot and sweaty ...
Jun 13, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to the fifth chapter of 3 Books where I chat with Gretchen Rubin ( @Gretchen Rubin ) in the Penguin Random House studio in downtown Toronto. I met Gretchen ten years ago before her New York Times bestsellers The Happiness Project , Better Than Before , and The Four Tendencies took the world by storm with over three million copies sold. And before her fantastic podcast " Happier by Gretchen Rubin " was launched scoring over 40 million downloads. Back in the day we were just blogger friend...
May 29, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to the first chapter of 3 Books recorded live in an open bookstore! Book City is in the heart of Toronto's beautiful Bloor West Village neighborhood and that's where I settled into the children's section to talk blame, beauty, and growth with my favorite bookseller in the world -- the one and only Sarah Ramsey. I love Sarah because she takes the art of bookselling seriously and seemingly reads people's minds to find the exact book they need to help them grow. As we always say: Humans are...
May 15, 2018•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 4
I flew down to New York to uncover and discuss the most formative books of the one and only Seth Godin ( @ThisIsSethsBlog ) from his Hastings-On-Hudson studio. Seth is the bestselling author of Linchpin , Purple Cow , Tribes and many more books and is known as one of the world's biggest thinkers in communities such as TED and the Direct Marketing Association . This year he is being inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame . And did I mention he writes one of the most popular blogs in the world? ...
Apr 30, 2018•1 hr 54 min•Season 1Ep. 3
From a sunny balcony in San Diego overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Frank Warren of PostSecret and I uncover and discuss his three most formative books and pull out the resonant themes affecting us all. How do we give people a voice? In a flattening world, how do we build trust with new people? And what are the lessons we can take and apply to our own lives from these three life-changing books? Leave us a voicemail! Your message may be included in a future episode: 1-833-READ-A-LOT You can find sho...
Apr 16, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome! This is an unusual first chapter. In every other chapter I'll have a guest, their three most formative books, and a discussion touching on life's biggest themes. But this one? You'll join me and my wife Leslie in an intimate chat in our basement just after we put our kids to bed. I share my idea of starting 3 Books and talk about the rough vision, goals, and values of the show. She asks some surprising questions and you'll hear me struggling with my desires and the shape of the show. Le...
Mar 31, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 1
