Tribe of Mentors
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Tribe of Mentors Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice
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Nenad Nikolic@nnikolic72
4 stars
Dec 12, 2023

Essentialy useless collection of advice from successful people. Why I consider it useless: 1. It is eyewitness recollection of things that happened in lives of people which they recall and put in words. From number of published studies, we know that such recollections tend to be unreliable. Other flaw is that it is in human nature to embellish their experiences and forget all the bad stuff that happened. 2. There is relatively useful advice about books (I love reading them). Always happy to learn about a good book. On the other hand, I would prefer to know about which books those people read *before* they became successful. I don’t care what a bunch of CEOs read now that they have a host of different stuff to deal with. 3. There are a lot of claims in the book about stuff that just are not true. Obvious delusions of people who are indoctrinated in various form of mumbo jumbo ideologies that don’t mean anything and are a waste of time and space. Only reason I added a second star for this book is for the effort of the author to compile such a massive list, which must be extremely hard to do. I would especially advise younger readers to stay away from this one and try to find some scientifically backed books that contain actual evidence for the claims they make. Anectdotal ”evidence” contained in “Tribe of Mentors” is not worth the paper it’s printed on.

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Julien Sobczak@julien-sobczak
5 stars
Jul 30, 2023

If you loved "Tools of Titans", you will love even more "Tribe of Mentors". For this new book, Tim emailed his mentors the same well-thought questions and half of them take hours or days to write sophisticated answers (about success, happiness, focus, meditation, Stoicm, sports, etc.). You will find once again more than 100 chapters from a diverse panel of contributors (still mostly American). Unlike "Tools of Titans" where the notes were edited by Tim Ferris, the answers in this book were written by their authors. There is no organization in this book, "just" a collection of wisdoms, to read and reread. If learning from your own experience seems a good idea, this book will make it obvious that learning from others' experiences is even more invaluable and indispensable.

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Bouke van der Bijl@bouk
4 stars
Mar 1, 2023

I really enjoyed this! It’s a great variety of different people answering a standard set of questions, which gives it a good structure. To determine whether you want to read this book, just look at the table of contents and see if any of the people interviewed interest you.

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linda@lkt
3 stars
Sep 5, 2022

I leaned through this book while procrastinating on homework (when I got to Tim Urban I started to cringe). Some pretty helpful insights, good book recommendations, ways of thinking. I feel inspired. This book is a good pick me up.

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alali moe@xmoe
5 stars
Aug 13, 2022

200/100

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Josh Dzarir@josh
5 stars
Aug 12, 2021

There's over 100 interviews of some of the most iconic athletes, investors, writers and artists in this book. It's impossible to read this and not be able to take away something of value. You'll learn about the books these icons read, their failures and the mentality with which they approach life. After reading this I've gained several new mentors, people I probably never would of come across outside of this book. This is an incedrible book and Tim did a fantastic job of collating all the responses.

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Adrian Mejias@adrianmejias
4 stars
Dec 21, 2023
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Kevin Owens@ko2111
5 stars
Mar 6, 2024
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Apurva Chitnis@apuchitnis
4 stars
Feb 27, 2024
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Kayla Higginbotham@kaylahigginbo
2 stars
Jan 3, 2024
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Ricardo@ricardobarbosa
4 stars
Dec 19, 2023
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Siv W@siv_uk
5 stars
Feb 20, 2023
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Sai sundar Raghavan@sai_reads
5 stars
Feb 16, 2023
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Keven Wang@kevenwang
5 stars
Feb 4, 2023
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Tanvir Hasan@tamvirhbritto
5 stars
Jan 30, 2023
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Morgan Holland@morgz
4 stars
Jan 24, 2023
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Rohini Anandamurugan@rohini-anandamurugan
2 stars
Jan 20, 2023
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Ana Ferreira@ana
4 stars
Jan 2, 2023
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Andy Sporring@andysporring
4 stars
Nov 20, 2022
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Danté@dantenel
4 stars
Aug 31, 2022
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Imran@imranashraf
4 stars
Aug 29, 2022
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Amelia Lin@amelialin
3 stars
Aug 21, 2022
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Wojciech Waśniewski@Wojciech
4 stars
Aug 18, 2022
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Alex bell@redlion8
4 stars
Aug 13, 2022