This episode features Maria Popova's chapter from Tools of Titans, which is now available as an audiobook. The bio is read by Kaleo Griffith, and the profile is read by Ray Porter and Therese Plummer. To check out the full audiobook of Tools of Titans with 100+ chapters, visit audible.com/ferriss.

Maria Popova (@brainpicker) is a reader and a writer who writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings, which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring, the editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader, and the creator and host of The Universe in Verse, an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.

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The audiobooks of Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors can be found at audible.com/ferriss

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