2 Pages with MBS

Discover the best bits of the best books read by people you admire. Michael Bungay Stanier hosts the podcast where brilliant people read the best two pages of a favourite book. Listen as authors, leaders, activists, academics, celebrities, and entrepreneurs dig in with MBS to explore the insights and ideas within. Whether it’s books that inspire leadership, change, self-development and growth, power, strategy, ambition, productivity, or creativity and innovation - this is hand-curated wisdom from people who know. These are the books that change minds, shape lives, and inspire great work and worthy goals.

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114. Ever Find Yourself Distracted?: Nir Eyal, ...
Nir Eyal reading from his book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, and discussing the road to becoming just that.
15 min
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113. Fighting For the Life You Want: Jen Louden...
Jen Louden reading from Why Bother?, and discussing transforming your life through letting go of the outcomes and making room for the future.
20 min
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112. Have We Canceled Our Future?: Pascal Finet...
Reading from Uwe Schütte’s Kraftwerk, and discussing our responsibility to construct a better world.
31 min
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111. Weighing the Price of Ambition: Shellye Ar...
Shellye Archambeau reading from Wayne Baker’s All You Have to Do Is Ask and discussing the complexity of an ambitious mind.
39 min
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110. Seeking Deep Connection: Kevin Ashton, Aut...
Kevin Ashton reading from Suzanne Simard’s Finding the Mother Tree, and discussing finding the thing you can’t resist.
46 min
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109. (Re)Learning How to be White: Garrett Buck...
Garrett Bucks reading from Hanif Abdurraqib’s They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us and discussing the harm of the white savior complex.
49 min
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108. Make it Magical, Make it Meaningful: Aman...
Reading from Chip and Dan Heath’s The Power of Moments, and discussing making the most out of the moments we’re given.
43 min
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107. Making What Matters Most: Jay Acunzo [read...
Jay Acunzo reading from Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, and discussing tiny stories with big ideas.
45 min
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106. [Replay] The Search for Purpose: Arthur Br...
Arthur Brooks reading from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and discussing the nature of being fully alive.
45 min
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105. What’s at the Heart of Being Human? Brian ...
Brian Christian reading from Godel, Escher, Bach, and discussing the power and future of AI.
48 min
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104. How to Travel Through History: Danie Mello...
Danie Mellor reading from Susan Sontag’s On Photography, and discussing the world through an artist’s gaze.
52 min
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103. How to Surrender to Your Heart: Thibault M...
Thibault Manekin reading from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist, and talking about discovering and living your purpose.
45 min
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102. To Manage with Courage: Zach First [reads]...
Zach First reading from Peter Drucker's Management, and discussing the core principles of management in the present economy.
39 min
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101. How to Hold Gifts of Responsibility & Grie...
Stephen Jenkinson reading from Seamus Heaney’s From the Republic of Conscience and discussing stepping up in spite of whatever your burdens may be.
50 min
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100. #100 Where it All Began: Michael Bungay St...
Reading from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring and discussing how falling in love with reading influenced his life.
18 min
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99. The Sacred and The Mundane: Mia Birdsong, a...
Mia Birdsong reading from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass,’ and discussing connecting to what you are longing for.
44 min
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98. And the Walls Became the World: Chris West,...
Reading from Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and discussing the magic of your imagination.
33 min
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97. [Replay] I Am Disabled But Not Broken: Chri...
Christa Couture reading from Eli Clare’s Brilliant Imperfection and discussing society’s labels.
36 min
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96. Getting Better at Falling Apart: Dr. Robyne...
Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe reading from Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, and discussing everyday resiliency.
38 min
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95. The Countercultural Leader: Steve Morrow [r...
Steve Morrow reading from Fred Kofman’s Conscious Business and discussing working towards living a better life, both professionally and personally.
37 min
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94. Who do you serve?: Dave Stachowiak [reads] ...
Dave Stachowiak reading from Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and discussing being a student, rather than a teacher.
49 min
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93. How to Be an Outlier on the Inside: Gina Je...
Gina Jeneroux reading from Chip and Dan Heath’s Switch and discussing how to maintain your own spirit.
37 min
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92. Dancing with Ambition: Eric Zimmer [reads] ...
Eric Zimmer reading from Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Heart of Understanding and discussing triumphing over inner psychological wars.
43 min
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91. Civility & Community: Christine Porath, aut...
Christine Porath reading from Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning and discussing the effect we have on others.
42 min
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90. Rise up!: Todd Kashdan, author of ‘The Art ...
Todd Kashdan reading from Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and discussing the power of individual action.
47 min