It covers a wide range of topics which helped shape Rogan’s worldview, and he has recommended them multiple times on the JRE podcast.
20 books recommended by @joerogan 🧵
“This book is awesome. Most people have no idea how to do breathing exercises and how beneficial they are.
I learned a lot from his book and I’ve been using the methods I learned from his book and I can tell you there are absolutely some real benefits to be had from this.”
― Joe Rogan
“I really can’t recommend this book enough. It’s one of the best and most insightful books I’ve ever read.
This book is just amazing for helping you recognize errors in thinking and personal biases that we all experience. It really gets to the roots of what makes people happy and unhappy rather than being some sort of a positive thinking, motivational book. Just outstanding stuff that you can really apply in day-to-day life.”
― Joe Rogan
“I really enjoying 'Sapiens' by Yuval Noah Harari. It really puts in perspective how bizarre human beings are. It’s an awesome overview of our species. It’s really good.”
― Joe Rogan
“The culmination of a 12-year obsession into the mystery of the ancient Greeks and their use of psychedelics to find God. It’s a mind blower of a discussion.”
― Joe Rogan
“It's really wild when you think about how long that guy lived and how applicable some of his thoughts are today.”
― Joe Rogan
“The War of Art is my favorite motivational book. It cuts through the bullshit of procrastination and gives you the tools and the inspiration to get moving and to create.
I used to keep a stack of them in the studio to hand out to guests. I haven’t picked it up in a while, and since I’m always looking for fuel to get more out of my life, I decided to grab the audio book. It’s as awesome and useful as I remember. I can’t recommend it enough.”
― Joe Rogan
“I can’t recommend this book enough, it’s an INSANE story that took Tom O’Neill 20 years to write.”
― Joe Rogan
“It's a fantastic book, there is so much good stuff in there. It was so sad and so gripping and so riveting.
We all know that a lot of horrific things happened in the time where the settlers started making their way across the plains and headed west, but God you just did such a fantastic job of sort of bringing it to life. I mean the horrors of it all. I knew that kind of stuff had taken place, but I'd really never read it so graphically depicted.”
― Joe Rogan
“The great and powerful Jack Carr is a really amazing writer.
You want an awesome story about a navy SEAL? Get one written by an actual SEAL. There’s no substitute. And in Jack’s case, he’s a real student of the genre. I’m blown away by how compelling these books are, and Jack couldn’t be a nicer, cooler guy.”
― Joe Rogan
He also recommends True Believer and Son Savage by Jack Carr.
“This book will change your fucking life. It’s time to go to war with yourself.” ― Joe Rogan
Rogan says Never Finished is as good if not better than the first book.
“Graham Hancock has influenced my views on history more than anybody ever. In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock theorizes that a previously unknown ancient civilization was much older and far more advanced than we’ve been led to believe was possible.
A cataclysmic event erased them from history and a few survivors traveled the world to spread their knowledge to civilizations in Egypt and the Americas. Recounting his extensive travels to megalithic sites, Hancock attempts to solve this mystery using maps, ancient myths and astronomy. Recent discoveries continue to move back the timeline of ancient history.”
― Joe Rogan
Gladwell is one of Rogan’s favorite authors and three of his books appear on this reading list (Outliers and The Tipping Point being the other two).
In Talking to Strangers, Gladwell examines high profile cases from the news where an interaction between people who don’t know each other goes wrong. He argues that people don’t know how to talk to strangers which often leads to misunderstanding and unnecessary conflict.
“Musashi has been a constant source of inspiration for me for most of my life. The Book of Five Rings is, in my opinion, one of the most valuable things anyone has ever written.”
― Joe Rogan
“This is my favorite guidebook to getting my mind on track.
One of the most powerful tools for managing mindset that I’ve ever found. I’m making a concerted effort to make this something I think about all the time.”
― Joe Rogan
“I’m a work in progress. I’m sure I will always be. Being a human is a weird thing; we are a complicated compilation of thoughts and feelings carried around by a body that requires constant maintenance and attention just to have enough energy to do the things we enjoy.
One of the things that I’ve found that improves my perspective is reading about how other interesting people approach this weirdness, and @ryanholiday did a great job of compiling some very powerful and interesting thoughts in his book, “The Obstacle Is The Way.”
I feel like it’s one I’m going to go over often. There’s some great stuff in here.”
― Joe Rogan
“My obsession with Native American history books continues, and with “Black Elk” I’ve found my favorite one yet. It was written in 1932 with notes that the author took from listening to the words of Black Elk as translated to English by his son.
Black Elk was an Oglala Lakota Medicine Man and his stories are absolutely incredible. Definitely feels the most authentic of all the books I’ve gotten into so far, because it’s the actual words of a man who lived this life, told while he was alive.”
― Joe Rogan
“It’s an excellent book on the power of meditation and alternate states of consciousness on performance.”
― Joe Rogan
“McKenna was an ethnobotanist and psychonaut who greatly influenced my views on psychedelics and consciousness.
In Food of the Gods, he explores the role that plants, drugs and altered states of consciousness have played throughout human history. His underlying message is that humans need to revive their historical relationship with psychoactive plants in order to avoid destroying the planet and themselves.”
― Joe Rogan
The book chronicles her harrowing escape from North Korea and her subsequent journey to freedom, detailing the life-threatening challenges she faced along the way. It is divided into three main parts: her life in North Korea, her escape to China, and her journey to South Korea and her adjustment to a new life.
Throughout the memoir, Park explores themes of resilience, freedom, and the search for identity against the backdrop of oppressive regimes and the struggle for human rights.
“A fantastic book by two amazing and brilliant friends.”
― Joe Rogan
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