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Derren Brown

entertainer · in 10 sources (2018–2020)

Works: Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine, A Little Happier

Speaks in 1 source; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2018: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 1

Threads

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

stoicism (4) · Harry Potter (book series) (3) · The 4-Hour Workweek (3) · Tim Ferriss (4) · Mistborn (2) · James Clear (2) · Game of Thrones (2) · Atomic Habits (2) · Kindle (4)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2020

  • 2020-11-22 · My PRODUCTIVE Apartment Tour (2021) — Ali: By his bed Ali keeps his Kindle Oasis, the journal in which he sometimes writes, and Derren Brown's A Little Happier, notes on how to be happier in life. — 00:03:31

2019

  • 2019-02-14 · Valentine’s Day Live Stream — recommendation: Ali calls Atomic Habits by James Clear a really good book: it is his second most highlighted book, after Happy by Derren Brown. — 00:10:17
  • 2019-05-02 · Monthly Favourites #8 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali calls Derren Brown's book Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine one of his favourite nonfiction books of all time. — 00:00:00
    • Ali says Derren Brown's Happy is a book about philosophy, not magic, and a fantastic introduction to the Stoic school of philosophy. — 00:00:48
    • Derren Brown (quoted): The cover text of Happy says Derren Brown traces ideas of happiness from the Stoics and Epicureans to today's self-help industry, and shows that its routes such as positive thinking, self-belief and setting goals can be disastrous and cause anxiety. — 00:01:46
    • When people ask how he seems so carefree, unstressed and content, Ali points them to Derren Brown's Happy, which he says explains the philosophy that makes him happy and content most of the time. — 00:02:15
    • Ali gives away a copy of Derren Brown's Happy with a message from him at the front: viewers who comment with their Instagram username enter, and one winner receives it. — 00:02:45
  • 2019-08-16 · Money, Relationships and Hair Loss - Answering your Assumptions — recommendation: Ali: As introductions to stoicism Ali recommends Derren Brown's Happy and William Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life. — 00:18:44
  • 2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — Ali's daily Readwise email often brings a quote, such as one from Derren Brown's Happy or Tim Ferriss's Tools of Titans, that applies to what he is thinking about. — 00:09:19
  • …and 1 statement more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2018

  • 2018-04-16 · Monthly Favourites #3 - Ali Abdaal — recommendation: Ali calls Derren Brown's book Happy, in which Brown describes being a celebrity, a really good book. — 00:17:23
    • Ali says he will talk about Derren Brown's book Happy in another video because he absolutely loves it. — 00:17:23
  • 2018-05-01 · First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A — recommendation: Ali recommends the non-fiction books Happy by Derren Brown, one of his favourite books on living a happier life, and Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek. — 00:08:13
  • 2018-05-07 · Live Q&A + Hangout - Bank Holiday vibes - Ali Abdaal, Cambridge medical student — recommendation: Ali recommends Derren Brown's book Happy as fantastic, one everyone should read. — 00:35:56
    • Using Derren Brown's example of a friend's missed birthday invitation, which stops hurting once you learn their grandma died, Ali says the story we tell ourselves about an event dictates our response. — 00:36:46
    • Ali's book recommendations: Harry Potter, Mistborn and Derren Brown's Happy, depending on whether you want fiction or non-fiction. — 00:47:27
    • Ali's favourite non-medical book is The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss or Derren Brown's Happy. — 00:54:39
  • 2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — announcement: Ali calls Derren Brown's Happy really, really good but will probably not make a video on it specifically; he wants to make a video on books that have changed his life, with Happy on the list. (hedged) — 00:04:02
    • Ali's smart-thinking book picks include Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek, for insight into what productivity really means, and Derren Brown's Happy, on changing how you think to be happier and less reactive to negative events. — 00:29:48
  • 2018-08-03 · Life Advice - 50k subs Q&A — recommendation: Ali: On stoicism Ali always recommends Derren Brown's book Happy, and also William Irvine's A Guide to the Good Life, whose title he half-remembers. — 00:03:16