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Derek Sivers is an author of philosophy and entrepreneurship, known for his surprising, quotable insights and pithy, succinct writing style. Derek’s books (How to Live,Hell Yeah or No,Your Music and People,Anything You Want) and newest projects are at his website: sive.rs. His new book is Useful Not True.

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Want to hear the last time Derek was on the show? Listen to our conversation here in which we discuss the benefits of an unoptimized life, finding and asking mentors for help, the wisdom of quitting when you’re ahead, how to teach an 11-year-old to act like a 16-year-old, the problem with moral relativism and other -isms, securing tech independence, and much more.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Connect with Derek Sivers*:

Website | Podcast | Twitter | YouTube

• Useful Not True: Whatever Works for You by Derek Sivers
• How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion by Derek Sivers
• Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing by Derek Sivers
• Your Music and People: Creative and Considerate Fame by Derek Sivers
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
• Derek Sivers — The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life, Finding Paths Less Traveled, Creating Tech Independence (and Risks of the Cloud), Taking Giant Leaps, and Picking the Right “Game of Life” | The Tim Ferriss Show #668
• Derek Sivers: Weird, or Just Different? | TED Talk
• Gahwa: A Quintessential Symbol of Emirati Hospitality | National Geographic
• Gourmet Arabian Hospitality | Café Bateel
• Ruby vs. Python: What’s the Difference and How to Choose? | Learn Enough
• Work Quickly and Integrate Systems More Effectively | Python
• Is a Rat the Right Pet for You? | The Humane Society of the United States
• Woman Brings Home a Rat and Discovers He’s Just like a Puppy | GeoBeats Animals
• 26 Years of Growth: Shanghai Then and Now | The Atlantic
• For Global Business | Alipay
• Connecting a Billion People | WeChat
• Things to Do in Taipei | The Complete Guide
• How Did Taipei Change in the Last Decade? | Quora
• China’s World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li | Derek Sivers
• Blade Runner | Prime Video
• Japan Was the Future but It’s Stuck in the Past | BBC
• Shenzhen, China: All You Must Know Before You Go | Tripadvisor
• Chengdu, China: All You Must Know Before You Go | Tripadvisor
• Visit Dubai | Official Tourism Board in Dubai
• City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism by Jim Krane | Derek Sivers
• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger | Derek Sivers
• The Bedouin — Desert Nomads | Bedouin Experience
• How Lee Kuan Yew Engineered Singapore’s Economic Miracle | BBC News
• Muscat, Oman: All You Must Know Before You Go | Tripadvisor
• Keeping Our Culture Alive Through Footwear | Tamashee
• Tamashee Steps Up Khaleeji | Gulf News
• Independent Adventuring Supply Shops | 826 Valencia
• The Birth of Islam | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
• Cormac McCarthy Writes to the Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican | McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Amazon
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy | Amazon
• Seven Types of Hammered Dulcimers Around the World | Songbird Dulcimers
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Derek Sivers
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Derek Sivers
• How Groupthink Impacts Our Behavior | Verywell Mind
• What Is Asset Allocation and Why Is It Important? | Investopedia
• Varadaraja V. Raman — The Heart’s Reason: Hinduism and Science | The On Being Project
• System 1 and System 2 Thinking | The Decision Lab
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Derek Sivers
• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker | Amazon
• The Work | Byron Katie
• Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas by Brian Eno | Amazon
• A Quiet Place to Think About Music | MusicThoughts
• Brian Eno: Interview with the Producer of U2’s No Line on the Horizon | The Telegraph
• Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | Prime Video
• John Cage Performs “Water Walk” | I’ve Got a Secret
• Seesaws Built On US Border Wall Win Prestigious Design Prize | NPR
• The Story Of ‘4’33″‘ | NPR
• A 639-Year-Long John Cage Organ Performance Strikes a New Chord in Germany | NPR
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand | Derek Sivers
• Stewart Brand – The Polymath of Polymaths | The Tim Ferriss Show #281
• The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture, and Business | Wired
• Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World? | The Tim Ferriss Show #25, #26, & #27
• How to Do a Turkish Get-Up | Furthermore from Equinox
• Robust, Practical, and Fast | Clojure
• Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey | Rails Conf 2012 Keynote
• Etymology of Complex | Online Etymology Dictionary
• Six Reasons the Puerto Rico Tax Incentives Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up to Be | US Tax Services
• Money — Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins | Derek Sivers
• Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss | Amazon
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• George Does the Opposite | Seinfeld
• No Yes. Either HELL YEAH! or No. | Derek Sivers
• The Billionaire’s Guide to Doing Taxes | Vox
• Release Your Music Everywhere | CD Baby
• Who Was Bitcoin’s Satoshi? I Need to Know and So Do You. by Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg
• Betteridge’s Law of Headlines | Wikipedia
• E-Gold | Stanford University
• Tyler Cowen on Rationality, COVID-19, Talismans, and Life on the Margins | The Tim Ferriss Show ##413
• All Food Is Ethnic Food. | Tyler Cowen’s Ethnic Dining Guide
• After National Acclaim over the past Decade, Where Is Pittsburgh’s Food Scene Headed? | Trib Live
• Translation Tools to Help People Translate Books | Inchword
• Japanese vs. Korean: Which is Easier to Learn? | Busuu
• Your Fast Track to Speaking a New Language | Fluent in 3 Months
• A Beginners Guide to Esperanto | The Guardian
• Universala Esperanto-Asocio
• Language Crash Course: Klingon | PGO 2020
• Pimsleur Spanish Level 1 Lessons 1-5 | Amazon
• Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes | Ryan Estrada
• How to Do Basic Pen Tricks | Tim Ferriss
• Traditional Welcoming | Bedouin Experience
• Burj Khalifa: Unpacking the World’s Tallest Building | Architectural Digest
• UAE’s Diversity and Multiculturalism, Discussed By Those Who Live it Every Day | Vogue Arabia
• Mos Eisley Cantina Scene | Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope

SHOW NOTES [00:07:18] Derek Sivers: A Man who brings his own introduction. * [00:09:25] First mind change: Emirati coffee. * [00:12:34] Second mind change: Ruby to Python. * [00:13:54] Third mind change: Rats. * [00:17:23] Fourth mind change: China. * [00:23:24] Fifth mind change: Dubai. * [00:26:48] Tamashee: Come for the sandals, stay for the culture. * [00:30:52] Cormac McCarthy Writes to the Editor of The Santa Fe New Mexican*. * [00:31:47] Shifting perspectives and the value of questioning preconceptions. * [00:51:23] Brian Eno and MusicThoughts. * [00:53:57] John Cage. * [00:56:34] Three glasses. * [00:57:08] Derek’s experimental housing project. * [01:03:51] Rich Hickey and practical applications of simplicity. * [01:29:20] Tyler Cowen. * [01:35:57] Inchword and language learning. * [01:46:35] Traveling to inhabit philosophies. * [01:54:14] Parting thoughts.

MORE DEREK SIVERS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Whatever you feel yourself leaning away from, try leaning into. If you hate opera, then go learn more about opera. And if you hate sports, well, then go learn more about sports. It’s usually just learning about something gives you an appreciation for this thing that you used to just dismiss.”
— Derek Sivers

“I travel to inhabit philosophies.”
— Derek Sivers

“Don’t jump through hoops to save taxes, jump through a hoop to go make more money. That’s the growth choice anyway. That’s the thought process that leads you to make growing decisions, not shrinking decisions.”
— Derek Sivers

“I’m willing to throw myself in and feel the pain to see if I’ve done it wrong.”
— Derek Sivers

“When I’m around people who I know agree with me, my inherent curiosity level drops a bit. And when I’m around people who I know don’t think like me, my curiosity piques.”
— Derek Sivers

“I deliberately fucked up my life and made a bunch of crazy fucking decisions, and some of them worked out great, and some of them didn’t. And I’m so happy that I did that.”
— Derek Sivers

“So often, the difference between success and failure is the mindset that leads you to take different actions. But if you just look at a situation, and you say, “That’s it. That’s what the situation is,” I’m not talking about physical things. I mean declaring something to be a dead end, declaring something to suck, these are all things of the mind, and nothing of the mind is necessarily true. Everything that’s just in the mind is just one perspective.”
— Derek Sivers

“It can be much harder to do something that is objectively simple, that stands alone, that isn’t dependent on other things. It can be harder to make that, but it’s ultimately usually a better choice because it’s more maintainable, it’s easier to change, it’s easier to stop and start. It’s simpler even if it’s harder to make.”
— Derek Sivers

“Esperanto is hippie Klingon.”
— Derek Sivers

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Seth Godin * Wilfred Thesiger * T. E. Lawrence * Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan * Lee Kuan Yew * Mohammad Kazim * Cormac McCarthy * Richard Branson * Elon Musk * Gavin de Becker * Byron Katie * Brian Eno * John Cage * Nam June Paik * Stewart Brand * Kevin Kelly * Frank Lloyd Wright * Rich Hickey * Tony Robbins * Neil Strauss * George Costanza * Tyler Cowen * Satoshi Nakamoto * John F. Kennedy * Jeff Koons * Benny Lewis * Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof

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“Gather yourself afresh.”
— Derren Brown

Derren Brown (@derrenbrown) is a psychological illusionist who can predict, suggest, and even control human behavior. Starting his TV career with shows such as Mind Control and Trick or Treat for Channel 4 (the UK’s equivalent of PBS), Derren has combined spectacular illusions with insights into how we see the world and those around us, or expect to see them. Rather than guard the mystery behind his illusions and manipulations, he lays bare his techniques and demonstrates how the human mind works.

A prolific creator and performer, Derren has appeared in blockbuster stage and television shows alike, including the sold-out Broadway run of his one-man show Secret, his Olivier Award-winning tour of Svengali, and his Netflix specials The Push, Miracle, and the harrowing Sacrifice, in which he tries to manipulate an ordinary person into taking a bullet for a stranger.

Derren is the author of multiple books, including Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fineand A Book of Secrets: Finding Comfort in a Complex World. Derren’s new tour, Only Human, materializes on stages across the UK beginning April of 2025.

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Want to hear another episode with someone who delights audiences with feats of magic? Listen to my conversation with Simon Coronel, in which we discuss radical earliness, neurodivergence, categories of stage magic, late (but timely) blooming, mentalism misgivings, jigsaw puzzles, spending time at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and much more.

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Connect with Derren Brown*:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Derren Brown: Sacrifice | Netflix
• Netflix’s Derren Brown: Sacrifice Is an Utterly Bizarre, Ethically Questionable, Totally Gripping Must-See | Paste Magazine
• Derren Brown: The Push | Netflix
• Duncan Greive: Netflix Drives Man to Brink of Murder with New Show | NZ Herald
• The Truman Show | Prime Video
• The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy: Was Sirhan Sirhan Hypnotized to Be the Fall Guy? | The Washington Post
• Derren Brown: Apocalypse | YouTube
• The Game | Prime Video
• The Assassin with Stephen Fry | Derren Brown: The Experiments
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams | Amazon
• Master Magician David Blaine — Fear{less} with Tim Ferriss | The Tim Ferriss Show #546
• Mind Control with Derren Brown | Prime Video
• Tricks Of Mind by Derren Brown | Amazon
• Hypnosis | Wikipedia
• Derren Brown: Showman | Apollo Theatre
• Dr. David Spiegel, Stanford U. — Practical Hypnosis, Meditation vs. Hypnosis, Pain Management Without Drugs, The Neurobiology of Trance, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #731
• What Is Mentalism? Tips for Becoming a Mentalist | MasterClass
• Cold Reader Tips: How Cold Reading Works | MasterClass
• Debunking Psychics: An Intro to Hot Reading | Rachel Oates
• The Man Who Contacts the Dead | Derren Brown Investigates
• The Illuminati, QAnon, Lizard People, and Other Bizarre Conspiracy Theories | Spyscape
• Richard Wiseman on Lessons from Dale Carnegie, How to Keep a Luck Diary, Mentalism, The Psychology of the Paranormal, Mass Participation Experiments, NLP, Remote Viewing, and Attempting the Impossible | The Tim Ferriss Show #593
• Derren Brown on Why the Supernatural Isn’t Real (Clip) | Diary of a CEO
• Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre | Amazon
• Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational by Michael Shermer | Amazon
• The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: The Definitive Guide to How Cold Reading Is Used in the Psychic Industry by Ian Rowland | Amazon
• Oracle of Delphi: Why Was It So Important to Ancient Greeks? | The Collector
• Jon Batiste — The Quest for Originality, How to Get Unstuck, His Favorite Mantras, and Strategies for Living a Creative Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #775
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins | Amazon
• Derren Brown: The Miracle Maker Reveals His Christian Past | Premier Christianity
• Believing in God & Overcoming Your Fears: Fear And Faith | Derren Brown
• The Jungian Shadow | Society of Analytical Psychology
• The Coming Out Experience | Pew Research Center
• What Is Conversion Therapy and When Will It Be Banned? | BBC News
• Dead Poets Society | Prime Video
• Derren Brown: ‘I Was a Terrible Attention Seeker’ | The Guardian
• Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Fine by Derren Brown | Amazon
• What Is Stoicism? A Definition and Nine Stoic Exercises to Get You Started | Daily Stoic
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) | Wikipedia
• A Book of Secrets: Finding Comfort in a Complex World by Derren Brown | Amazon
• Derren Brown’s Boot Camp for Emotion Derren Brown’s Boot Camp for Emotion by Derren Brown | Amazon
• Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa | Amazon
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi | Amazon
• Derren Brown Demonstrates How Faith Healers Work | Derren Brown
• Derren Brown: Miracle | Netflix
• Rhonda Byrne on Why Manifestation Sometimes Fails | Ask Rhonda
• The Secret by Rhonda Byrne | Amazon
• Art Store | Derren Brown
• Telic vs Atelic: Balancing Work and Play in Your Life | HackerNoon
• Only Human | Derren Brown
• Notes From a Fellow Traveller by Derren Brown | Derren Brown Books
• Sherlock | Prime Video
• Fargo Season 1 | Prime Video
• Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to Lose Anger by Studying Morality | The Tim Ferriss Show #644
• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt | Amazon
• Books by James Hollis | Amazon
• Books by Irvin D. Yalom | Amazon
• Books by Oliver Sacks | Amazon
• Books by Fyodor Dostoevsky | Amazon
• Hannibal Lecter Series by Thomas Harris | Amazon
• Books by Stephen King | Amazon
• Little, Big by John Crowley | Amazon
• Picnic Comma Lightning: The Experience of Reality in the Twenty-First Century by Laurence Scott | Amazon
• Derren Brown: Mentalism, Mind Reading, and the Art of Getting Inside Your Head | TED Talk
• Tim Ferriss | TED Talks
• Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke | The On Being Project

SHOW NOTES [00:06:45] Sacrifice, The Push, and Apocalypse*. * [00:12:21] Derren’s transition from student to magician. * [00:14:43] How Martin Taylor inspired Derren to pursue hypnosis. * [00:16:42] Strange audience reactions to hypnosis. * [00:20:00] Hypnosis, mentalism, and cold reading. * [00:24:34] How a TV medium uses hot reading techniques. * [00:26:22] How can someone learn to be a healthy skeptic? * [00:34:24] How learning magic influenced Derren’s skepticism and faith. * [00:40:57] Why did Derren wait until his 30s to come out? * [00:43:18] Finding meaning. * [00:47:06] High status struggles. * [00:48:20] Making sense of the human experience. * [00:56:59] Ambition and productivity. * [01:02:25] The counterintuitive assembly of Derren’s creative projects. * [01:09:17] Ensuring ethics and safety in TV social experiments. * [01:15:50] Suggestion as self-defense. * [01:20:27] Why Derren takes care not to abuse his superpowers in real life. * [01:24:01] Recommended reading. * [01:28:02] TED Talks in treacherous terrain. * [01:29:53] A new belief or habit that has improved Derren’s life. * [01:33:27] Derren’s billboard and parting thoughts.

MORE DERREN BROWN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Life’s difficult. Life has this centripetal quality. It brings us to this difficult central point. The thing that makes us feel most isolated is the one thing that actually connects us the most.”
— Derren Brown

“If you want to keep the seat next to you free on a train, don’t put your bag there, because that’s what everybody does. Instead, pat the seat and nod and smile at people. No one’s going to sit next to you.”
— Derren Brown

“The experience of something bigger than yourself is how we find meaning.”
— Derren Brown

“I think just how you make peace with life that’s not always going to go your way, that’s the project, that’s a successful life.”
— Derren Brown

“If you’ve got all the energy and self-promotion, but no talent to back it up, it’s not going to be very helpful. And if you’ve got all the talent in the world, but no energy of getting it out there for people to see, that’s also not great.”
— Derren Brown

“Sometimes a bit of conflict is important because it isn’t really about conflict, is it? It’s about being able to have some faith in what you actually are and want to say and stand for.”
— Derren Brown

“Gather yourself afresh.”
— Derren Brown

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Donald Trump * Michael Douglas * Sirhan Sirhan * Robert F. Kennedy * Stephen Fry * David Blaine * Martin Taylor * David Spiegel * David Copperfield * Q * Richard Wiseman * Ben Goldacre * Michael Shermer * Ian Rowland * Tommy Wonder * Carl Jung * Christine Brown * Seneca the Younger * William J. Clinton * Hillary Clinton * Marcus Aurelius * Epictetus * Hartmut Rosa * Arthur Schopenhauer * Sigmund Freud * Mihály Csíkszentmihályi * Rhonda Byrne * Michael Vine * Kevin Kelly * Phil Hope * Martin Freeman * Benedict Cumberbatch * Jonathan Haidt * James Hollis * Irvin D. Yalom * Oliver Sacks * Fyodor Dostoevsky * Thomas Harris * Hannibal Lecter * Stephen King * John Crowley * Laurence Scott * Gabor Maté * Rainer Maria Rilke

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Jon Batiste (@jonbatiste) is a five-time Grammy Award-winning and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and composer. His eighth studio album, Beethoven Blues, is set for a November 15th release. This project marks the first installment in his solo piano series, showcasing Batiste’s interpretations of Beethoven’s iconic works, reimagined. Beethoven Blues follows Batiste’s studio album World Music Radio, which received five Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.

Batiste is featured in Matthew Heineman’s Netflix documentary, American Symphony. The film follows Batiste’s journey, starting in early 2022, as he receives 11 Grammy nominations for his studio album We Are. Amid this success, he faces the challenge of composing a symphony for Carnegie Hall while supporting his wife, bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning journalist Suleika Jaouad, who learns her cancer has returned.

As a composer, Batiste scored Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, now in theaters. The film depicts the chaotic 90 minutes before Saturday Night Live’s first broadcast in 1975, underscored by Batiste’s blending of jazz, classical, and contemporary elements. He composed and produced the music live on set, capturing the intensity of the show’s debut. Batiste appears in the film as Billy Preston, the show’s first musical guest.

Additionally, Batiste composed and performed music for the Disney/Pixar film Soul, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Connect with Jon Batiste:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Threads

• Beethoven Blues by Jon Batiste | Amazon
• Saturday Night (Trailer) | Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Soul | Prime Video
• Meet the World-Famous Hot-Spring Loving Snow Monkeys | Travel Japan
• Ogimi Village – A Village of Longevity Set in a Beautiful Natural Environment | Okinawa Island Guide
• Kurt Vonnegut Once Told a Story About Buying One Envelope at a Time | Snopes
• Jon Batiste on His Awards Glory: ‘Overnight a Lot of Stuff Changed’ | The Guardian
• Andrew Zimmern on Simple Cooking Tricks, Developing TV, and Addiction | The Tim Ferriss Show #40
• Jonathan Batiste & The Stay Human Band — It’s Alright with Me | Facebook
• Casio SK-1: This Legendary Lo-Fi Sampler from 1986 Is Still Worth It | David Hilowitz Music
• The Surprising Origins of the Running Man Dance! | Wehustle Clips
• How to Moonwalk | Mihran Kirakosian
• Jon Batiste Performs Freedom Live from the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, 2022 | Universal Music Group
• Austin’s #1 Music Venue | Moody Center
• Jon Batiste and Stay Human Take Their Social Music to the Streets of New York City | Marc Millman
• Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes (#516) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad | Amazon
• How to Survive a Black Hole: Instructions and Other Brilliance from Astrophysicist Janna Levin – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
• City of Kenner, LA | Instagram
• The Batiste Kids (Travis, Jamal, and Jon Batiste), 1994 | WWL TV
• Jon Batiste’s Family Shares Stories About His Childhood, Rise to Fame | WWL
• Cultivating Artistry | The Juilliard School
• Walking Pneumonia: What Does It Mean? | Mayo Clinic
• The True Measures of Greatness | InsightLA Meditation
• Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony de Mello | Amazon
• Jamie Foxx on Workout Routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood Stories | The Tim Ferriss Show #124
• Blues | The Library of Congress
• A Beginner’s Guide to the Blues Scale | Happy Bluesman
• Ratatouille | Prime Video

SHOW NOTES [00:06:46] Is the secret to long life embracing the mundane? * [00:09:28] The gift of mistakes. * [00:10:21] Why did Jon wait until he was 10 to speak? * [00:12:51] How music and performance entered the picture. * [00:13:36] An early exercise in winning over the room. * [00:15:08] Choosing the personal facets that art expresses. * [00:16:57] From a disappointing grade school performance to the Grammys. * [00:21:44] Cultivating suspense and shifting modes of creative expression. * [00:27:24] When perspective drives motivation more than stakes. * [00:32:14] Spiritual practice and grounding mantras. * [00:40:29] Surrender, acceptance, and growth through health challenges. * [00:43:37] The fuzzy line between blessing and curse. * [00:46:40] Growing up bullied as the “least talented” in a musical family. * [00:52:50] Jon’s visionary mother guided him toward piano. * [00:55:23] Parental support for Jon’s relocation to New York City. * [00:56:15] Serious setbacks that almost made Jon quit Juilliard and music altogether. * [01:00:37] Jon’s advice to a younger musician enduring a similar path of hardships. * [01:03:11] How Jon owns what comes his way rather than allowing it to overwhelm him. * [01:07:30] Cultivating generosity without being drained. * [01:09:32] Jon’s billboard is invisible — but with deep posts. * [01:11:47] My rough draft of five deep handfuls. * [01:18:21] Jon’s answer in musical improv. * [01:25:42] Jon’s upcoming album: Beethoven Blues* (with bonus blues tutorial). * [01:39:09] Taking the hypotenuse to catharsis and other Parting thoughts.

MORE JON BATISTE QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Take your time to find the prize. There’s no rush. Pace yourself.”
— Jon Batiste

“Mistakes are amazing. Mistakes are brilliant. It’s a gift to go about your day and for something, either a mistake or something that you didn’t plan, an interruption, some seeming calamity happening that allows for you to not only respond but to create.”
— Jon Batiste

“When I was in college, my band and I would go in the subway and we would play for people. We wouldn’t ask for money. We wouldn’t busk. We would just play concerts for people who weren’t expecting a concert to just get to the point where we were fearless about presenting art.”
— Jon Batiste

“You have to understand what is it that’s yearning to be expressed within you. Even if you’re dreadfully afraid of it, you can have something within that seems so far away from the reality of your current state that it couldn’t possibly be for you in your mind. And every fiber of your being is telling you, ‘This isn’t what I should be pursuing. This isn’t who I am.’ That’s the one right there.”
— Jon Batiste

“I love to create these pockets of suspense, these pockets of pressurized creativity or pressurized experience that lead me to discovery, that [push] me forward. And I think about things that are not music, like cinema or — there are so many things that are not connected to the actual craft that I draw from much, much, much more than actually thinking about the inspiration of music and the fruit of the craft itself.”
— Jon Batiste

“There’s something about life. There’s a truth. There’s something about going through the fire that is so required and something about suffering that is so essential. This idea that we are meant to run from pain or run from difficult things and find the most leisurely and completely frictionless existence possible is such a lie.”
— Jon Batiste

“[Musical improvisation] feels like you are traveling. You’re moving, and your hand is telling you, ‘This is what I want to play.’ And as you play it, you’re seeing all the colors, and you’re hearing the sound. It starts to tell you, ‘Now I want to go here.’ And then sometimes it’s telling you things that you don’t know.”
— Jon Batiste

“Blues is an allegory for the human condition in sound. It’s a musical allegory that exists within the context of a cultural movement.”
— Jon Batiste

“If you don’t live it and it’s not a part of you, it’s not going to come out of the instrument. What we play is life. What we create is life.”
— Jon Batiste

“I don’t actually believe that failure exists. It’s not that it’s necessarily for your own good, but failure doesn’t exist. There’s opportunity for you to take something from the experience.”
— Jon Batiste

“On stage you have to present yourself in a way that is amplifying aspects of what’s inside. And ultimately, you have a decision to make as a performer to decide how far between who you actually are and who you’ve created to project on the stage.”
— Jon Batiste

“There’s a constellation of inspiration that crosses so many spectrums of society, and I can’t access it if I play by these rules.”
— Jon Batiste

“When I don’t have inspiration or I have a block, I do nothing. I live. And it’s absolutely because of the deeper inspiration that I’m blessed to feel. I feel it’s been cultivated. I’m connected to it, and I know it’s real, and it doesn’t have to greet me every day. I know it’s there.”
— Jon Batiste

PEOPLE MENTIOENDAnton Ego
Jimi Hendrix
Jason Reitman
Billy Preston
Trent Reznor
Atticus Ross
Kurt Vonnegut
Andrew Zimmern
Molly Ferriss
Michael Jackson
MC Hammer
Jemel McWilliams
Tony Robbins
Suleika Jaouad
Alfred Hitchcock
Janna Levin
Travis Batiste
Jamal Batiste
Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews
Jon’s Family
Anthony de Mello
Jamie Foxx
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Illustration via 99designs“I was taught in college and medical school that the mind is what the brain does and all our thoughts and feelings and perceptions are all created by the brain. And I cannot believe that anymore. I’ve seen people whose brains were either offline or severely impaired telling me they had the most elaborate experience they’ve ever had. So I’m inclined to think that the mind is something else and the brain filters it.”— Dr. Bruce Greyson

Bruce Greyson, M.D. (brucegreyson.com), is the Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences and Director Emeritus of the Division of Perceptual Studies at The University of Virginia. He is also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and one of the founders of the International Association for Near-Death Studies.

Dr. Greyson’s research for the past half century has focused on the aftereffects and implications of near-death experiences and has resulted in more than 100 presentations to national and international scientific conferences, more than 150 publications in academic medical and psychological journals, 50 book chapters, and numerous research grants.

He is a co-author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century; co-editor of The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives and of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation; and author of After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond.

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Want to hear another episode that ponders the nature of consciousness? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman here, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more wild stuff.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Connect with Dr. Bruce Greyson:

Website

• After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson | Amazon
• Division of Perceptual Studies | University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Near-Death Experience (NDE) | Wikipedia
• Defining Near-Death Experiences by Bruce Greyson | Mortality
• Life After Death: NDE Survivor Who ‘Floated’ in Coma Recalls ‘Red Stain on Doctor’s Tie’ | Daily Express
• Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon — Survival of Bodily Death by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. | Amazon
• The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James | Amazon
• The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) Scale: Development and Psychometric Validation | Consciousness and Cognition
• Greyson NDE Scale | IANDS
• Cargo Cult Science: Richard Feynman’s 1974 Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity | The Marginalian
• Richard Feynman Teaches You the Scientific Method | Farnam Street
• ‘‘False Positive’’ Claims of Near-Death Experiences and ‘‘False Negative’’ Denials of Near-Death Experiences by Bruce Greyson | Death Studies
• Jim Ryan Talks Near-Death Experiences with Dr. Bruce Greyson | Inside UVA
• MG MGB | Wikipedia
• Seeing Dead People Not Known to Have Died: “Peak in Darien” Experiences by Bruce Greyson | Anthropology and Humanism
• The Peak In Darien: With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body, An Octave of Essays by Frances Power Cobbe | Amazon
• Quantifying the Incredible | UVA Health Foundation
• Physician Explains Why He Takes Near-Death Experiences Seriously | Mind Matters
• Hume’s Sceptical Materialism | Cambridge Core
• Midazolam Injection (Versed) Uses and Side Effects | Cleveland Clinic
• Near-Death Experiences — Dealing with Skepticism (Panel Discussion) | IANDS
• Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience | Skeptical Inquirer
• Counter-Arguments to Lack of Oxygen-Induced NDEs? | r/NDE
• Near-Death Experiences Can ‘Totally Transform’ a Person in Seconds Says Scientist | Newsweek
• Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. | Wired
• You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work? | Wired
• Science, the Self, and Survival after Death: Selected Writings of Ian Stevenson | Division of Perceptual Studies
• Near-Death Experiences in India: A Preliminary Report by Satwant Pasricha and Ian Stevenson | The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
• Life after Death: Near-Death Experiences of Hindus | Sanskriti
• Near-Death Experience in Indian Religions. Encountering Yama by Shona Stockton (Dissertation) | University of Chester
• Near-Death Experiences and Spirituality by Bruce Greyson | Zygon
• Can Near-Death Experiences Prove the Afterlife? | Big Think
• Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain | Frontiers in Neuroscience
• Surge of Neurophysiological Coherence and Connectivity in the Dying Brain | PNAS
• AWAreness During REsuscitation — II: A Multi-Center Study of Consciousness and Awareness in Cardiac Arrest | Resuscitation
• Near-Death Experiences: Implications for Clinical Practice | Health Forum Online
• Flatliners | Prime Video
• Psychedelics May Give the Living a Glimpse Into Near-Death States | The New York Times
• Psychedelic Drugs Can Be Almost as Life Altering as Near-Death Experiences | The Conversation
• Long-Term Follow-up of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy for Psychiatric and Existential Distress in Patients with Life-Threatening Cancer | Journal of Psychopharmacology
• Out-of-Body Experience | Wikipedia
• Salvinorin A | Wikipedia
• Aldous Huxley: The Reducing Valve Theory | Nexus Void
• De Morbo Sacro by Hippocrates | The Perseus Catalog
• Marcus Raichle on the Default Mode Network | VPRO Labyrint TV
• Thalamocortical Radiations | Wikipedia
• Brain Area Thought to Impart Consciousness Behaves Instead Like an Internet Router | University of Maryland School of Medicine
• The Biggest Twin Registry in the UK for the Study of Ageing Related Diseases | TwinsUK
• Twin Telepathy? | r/Twins
• What is CRISPR? | New Scientist
• What is Bully Whippet Syndrome? | DDC Pets & Vets
• Belgian Blue | Beef2Live
• Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Neuroscience of Out-of-Body Experiences | CNS
• Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Experience | MIT Technology Review
• Voluntary Out-of-Body Experience: An fMRI Study | Frontiers in Neuroscience
• One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge | Wikipedia
• Project Nim | Prime Video
• Terminal Lucidity: What We Know and What We’re Learning | Healthline
• Why Time Stops at Near Death | Psychology Today
• Auditory Hallucinations Following Near-Death Experiences | Journal of Humanistic Psychology
• Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century by Edward Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, and Bruce Greyson | Amazon
• Irreducible Mind | Wikipedia
• 5% Have Had a Near-Death Experience — And They Say It Made Life Worth Living | New York Post

SHOW NOTES [06:00] Bruce’s scientific upbringing and his attraction to psychiatry. * [09:03] Bruce’s first encounter with a near-death experience (NDE) that changed everything. * [15:37] Development of the NDE scale and its characteristics. * [19:59] Challenges in studying NDEs and distinguishing genuine experiences. * [21:31] Examples of NDEs and out-of-body experiences verified by third parties. * [29:16] Attempts to explain NDEs through biological mechanisms. * [33:58] Does the manner of someone’s misadventure have a bearing on their NDE? * [36:54] Prevalence and consistency of NDEs across cultures and time. * [40:42] How new tools may deliver scientifically viable NDE evidence. * [51:23] What’s happening when people report seeing dead loved ones during NDEs? * [52:49] What can research tell us about the practical applications of NDEs? * [52:49] Are there reliable ways to simulate an NDE-like state? * [59:35] What’s really happening during an out-of-body experience? * [01:04:43] Mind vs. brain. * [01:09:42] Bruce’s career challenges and motivations for studying NDEs when few would. * [01:12:36] Can studying twins find a genetic component to NDE susceptibility? * [01:16:24] The difficulties of replicating out-of-body experiences in controlled settings. * [01:20:58] The mysteries of terminal lucidity phenomenon. * [01:23:01] The concept of time in NDEs. * [01:25:01] Auditory hallucinations after NDEs. * [01:26:33] Researchers who demonstrate open-mindedness and rigorous skepticism in NDE studies. * [01:28:07] The irreducible mind concept. * [01:29:08] Want to read Bruce’s books? Start with After*. * [01:29:49] Common characteristics and after-effects of NDEs. * [01:30:37] Parting thoughts.

MORE DR. BRUCE GREYSON QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“If you study things that we pretty much understand already, you can make little inroads here and there about fine points. If you really want to make some impact, you need to study things we don’t understand at all.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“I started out as a materialist skeptic. After 50 years, I’m still skeptical, but I’m no longer a materialist. I think that’s a dead end when it comes to explaining near-death experiences and other phenomena like this.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“I’m not a philosopher. I’m an empiricist. And when people say to me, as many do, ‘If you have this non-physical mind, how does it interact with a physical brain?’ And I have no idea. On the other hand, if you take a materialistic perspective and say, ‘How does the brain, the chemical and electrical changes in the brain, create an abstract thought?,’ we have no idea about that either.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“Whether you’re an empiricist, a materialist, or not, we can’t explain how thoughts arise and how they get processed to us. What we do know is that all our experiences are filtered to us through the brain.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“I was taught in college and medical school that the mind is what the brain does and all our thoughts and feelings and perceptions are all created by the brain. And I cannot believe that anymore. I’ve seen people whose brains were either offline or severely impaired telling me they had the most elaborate experience they’ve ever had. So I’m inclined to think that the mind is something else and the brain filters it.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“About five percent of the general population—or one to every 20 people—has had a near-death experience. Secondly, they are not associated in any way with mental illness. People who are perfectly normal have these NDEs in abnormal situations that can happen to anybody.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“The more I learned about [NDEs], the harder they seemed to understand. So I’ve gotten more comfortable with not knowing all the answers.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“Right now, people are listening to us and there’s electrical activity in parts of their brain that process hearing. It always happens when they’re hearing us. This part of the brain always lights up. That doesn’t mean that electrical activity is causing our voices; it’s just a reflection of it. So when you find these physiological concomitants of a near-death experience, you’re finding perhaps the mechanism for it, but not the cause of it.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“Most people who study near-death experiences, whether they’re spiritualists or materialists or neuropsychologist or philosophers, they agree on the phenomena, they don’t agree on the interpretation of it, of what’s causing it and what its ultimate meaning is.”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

“Many near-death experiencers have tried drugs afterwards to try to replicate the experience, and they universally tell me it is not the same thing. One person told me, ‘When I was on psilocybin, I saw Heaven. When I was in my near-death experience, I was in Heaven.'”
— Dr. Bruce Greyson

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— Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts (@aroberts_andrew) has written twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have won thirteen literary prizes.

These include Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Masters and Commanders, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, Napoleon: A Life, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, and most recently, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza, which he co-authored with General David Petraeus.

Lord Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. He is also a member of the House of Lords.

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Want to hear another episode with a historian who looks to the past in order to understand where the future’s headed? Have a listen to my conversation with Niall Ferguson, in which we discuss the revoking of academia’s license to be outrageous, historical contingency, keeping Cold War II from heating up into World War III, the joys of digging deep into historical correspondence, why an atheist takes his kids to church, life under fatwa, an evolving toolkit for enacting change, and much more.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Connect with Andrew Roberts:

Website | Twitter

• Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza by David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts | Amazon
• Secrets of Statecraft with Andrew Roberts | Hoover Institution
• Other Books by Andrew Roberts | Amazon
• Discover Yourself | Cranleigh School
• The Untold Tale of Cambridge’s History of Espionage | Varsity
• Debrett’s Guide to the Ranks and Privileges of the Peerage | Debretts
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro | Amazon
• Niall Ferguson, Historian — The Coming Cold War II, Visible and Invisible Geopolitics, Why Even Atheists Should Study Religion, Masters of Paradox, Fatherhood, Fear, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #634
• Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson | Amazon
• How to Write History by Andrew Roberts | National Review
• Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts | Amazon
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts | Amazon
• Noblesse Oblige | Learning to Give
• Why We’d Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo by Andrew Roberts | Smithsonian
• Code Napoleon | The Napoleon Series
• Guibert’s General Essay on Tactics by Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert | Library Genesis
• The Development of The Corps D’Armée | The Napoleon Series
• Napoleon at the Pyramids: Myth Versus Fact | Shannon Selin
• Winston Churchill Speeches from 1940 | America’s National Churchill Museum
• Marlborough: His Life and Times Series by Winston S. Churchill | Amazon
• My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston Churchill | Amazon
• Napoleon, History’s Greatest General or Strategist? | IHEDN
• Eyeless in Gaza: A Novel by Aldous Huxley | Amazon
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | Amazon
• The Gathering Storm (The Second World War) by Winston S. Churchill | Amazon
• “I Shall Be the One to Save London” | The Churchill Project
• 10 May 1940: A Day to Remember | The National Archives Blog
• Abdication of King Edward VIII, 1936 | America’s National Churchill Museum
• The July 20, 1944, Plot to Assassinate Adolf Hitler | Holocaust Encyclopedia
• Memory of Macabre Cult Massacre Buried in Guyana Jungle | France 24
• Winston Churchill Harnessed Many Mistakes Into Victory | Investor’s Business Daily
• What Today’s Leaders Can Learn from Napoleon’s Mistakes | Inc.
• Keeping a Diary — Advantages and Challenges | Naturally Balanced
• When Louis XVI Wrote “Rien” in His Diary… | Tiny-Librarian, Tumblr
• What is Purple Prose? | Writers.com
• The Napoleonic Bee | A French Collection
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Poetry Foundation
• Write, Cut, Rewrite: New Exhibition Sheds Light on the Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature | Bodleian Libraries
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Amazon
• First Edition of Frankenstein | Lambeth Palace Library, Instagram
• Established In 2017 | Cliveden Literary Festival
• The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq | Amazon
• The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger | Randall
• E. Germain: The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics (1955) | Marxists.org
• ‘Too Much Hitler and the Henrys’ by Niall Ferguson | Financial Times
• Nearly Quarter of Brits Think Churchill a Myth: Poll | ABC News
• The Majestic Castles of North Wales | Visit Wales
• Westminster Hall | UK Parliament
• The Study of History and the Practice of Politics | International Churchill Society
• The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts | Amazon
• Is British History Something to Be Proud Of? | The Week
• 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade | UK Parliament
• Pros and Cons of British Empire: “Balance Sheet” History Asks Students to Legitimize Imperialism. | Slate
• The Upside of Empire by Andrew Roberts | National Review
• Thomas Jefferson Statue Evicted from City Hall Will Go to a Museum | The New York Times
• Notable Quotations by P.G. Wodehouse | Wikiquote
• Ukraine in Maps: Tracking the War with Russia | BBC News
• Gaza Strip in Maps: How a Year of War Has Drastically Changed Life in the Territory | BBC News
• Napoleonic Marshals of France | French Empire

SHOW NOTES [00:06:14] Expelled from Cranleigh school. * [00:07:14] Why MI6 considered Andrew for recruitment. * [00:09:56] The teacher who made history exciting to 10-year-old Andrew. * [00:13:05] Words Andrew avoids when writing about history. * [00:14:20] Are steady-nerved leaders naturally born or nurtured? * [00:16:05] The thinkers who influenced Winston Churchill and his sense of noblesse oblige. * [00:18:26] What made Napoleon Bonaparte the prime exemplar of war leadership? * [00:24:37] Lessons from Winston Churchill’s autobiography, My Early Life. * [00:26:22] Napoleon’s relationship with risk. * [00:29:26] Andrew’s signed letter from Aldous Huxley. * [00:30:49] When historical figures carry a sense of personal destiny. * [00:33:07] The meeting Andrew wishes he could’ve witnessed as a fly on the wall. * [00:34:30] When historical villains carry a sense of personal destiny. * [00:37:14] What Churchill and Napoleon learned from their mistakes. * [00:39:38] “Dear Diary…” * [00:44:00] Maintaining creative flow during the writing process. * [00:47:18] On working with brilliant publisher Stuart Proffitt (aka Professor Perfect). * [00:52:53] Why are some significant figures immortalized while others go the way of Ozymandias? * [00:57:59] Thoughts on personal legacy. * [00:59:18] Fiction favorites. * [01:02:05] Being objective about the history of imperialism. * [01:03:31] The challenges of teaching and learning history today. * [01:06:40] Why “Study history” is Andrew’s coat of arms motto. * [01:10:22] What Andrew, as a history expert, sees for the future. * [01:14:01] Counteracting natural pessimism. * [01:15:34] What to expect from Andrew’s latest book Conflict* (co-authored with David Petraeus). * [01:19:21] Upcoming book projects. * [01:20:26] Parting thoughts.

MORE ANDREW ROBERTS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“I don’t think I’m the first person ever as a young man to get drunk and climb up buildings … It led to one of my wife’s most brilliant witticisms. She said, ‘And all Andrew’s done since in life is to get drunk and social climb.'”
— Andrew Roberts

“When I feel pessimism for America, it’s for things like taking the Thomas Jefferson statue down from the New York City Hall. It’s a form of cultural suicide. It strikes me not to admire the founders of your nation. And yes, of course he owned slaves, but he also wrote a constitution that has survived for a quarter of a millennium and he was brave enough, and Washington and all the others, brave enough to stand up against the most powerful empire in the world. These things, you deserve your statue, it seems to me. And if you go around pulling these things down, I think you’re breaking a living link with the past that makes you a great country.”
— Andrew Roberts

“I find it very relaxing and calming to think that my life isn’t just going to be a complete waste of time. And one of the only ways that I can justify this concept that it’s all not just a nihilistic maelstrom is by writing books, obviously, which I hope will survive me. But also, noting down what I’ve done in the day.”
— Andrew Roberts

“As soon as you think you understand a period, all it takes is one new set of papers or a new book written by somebody else that can make you look again at the same period and completely change your mind about it. And that’s a little unnerving at the age of 61, I have to say.”
— Andrew Roberts

“I’m a bit of a pessimist anyway because I’m a Tory and pessimism is an essential part of Toryism.”
— Andrew Roberts

PEOPLE MENTIONEDBenjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield
Susan Gilchrist
James Bond
Cookie Monster
Christopher Perry
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Caro
Niall Ferguson
Napoleon Bonaparte
Winston Churchill
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Great
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Arthur Schopenhauer
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Sir Francis Drake
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Randolph Churchill
Jeanette Spencer-Churchill
Aldous Huxley
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
George VI
Claus von Stauffenberg
David Koresh
Jim Jones
Xi Jinping
Benjamin Netanyahu
Joe Biden
Louis XVI
Samuel Johnson
Stuart Proffitt
Herodotus
Abraham Lincoln
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Goddard
William Boyd
Salman Rushdie
Robert Harris
Michel Houellebecq
Henry VIII
Denzel Washington
Sherlock Holmes
Eleanor Rigby
Ronald Hutton
Simon Roberts
Edward I
Elizabeth II
Warren Hastings
Nelson Mandela
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Thomas More
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
William Wallace
George III
Thomas Jefferson
P.G. Wodehouse
David H. Petraeus
Matthew Ridgway

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life.

This time, we have a slightly different format.

In this short and very tactical episode, I share some of my personal methods for how to get out of a rut, re-aim yourself at big outcomes, and make progress on a daily basis, despite the self-defeating tendencies that we all have.

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE* Make Before You Manage | Tim Ferriss * Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule | Paul Graham * Neil Gaiman — The Best Commencement Speech You May Ever Hear (20 Minutes) | Tim Ferriss * A 90-Second Video of Calligraphy | Tim Ferriss, Instagram * Shakshouka and Caffeine. | Tim Ferriss, Instagram * “Productivity” Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me) | Tim Ferriss * A Day in the Life of Tim Ferriss — A Morgan Spurlock Production | Vimeo * Rudy | Prime Video * The Snooze Button is a Psychological Trick | Jocko Willink * Why Moving Didn’t Solve Any of My Problems | Tiny Buddha * Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201 * Pique Tea Organic Fermented Pu’erh Black Tea | Amazon * Pique Tea Organic Fermented Pu’erh Green Tea | Amazon * Gary Keller — How to Focus on the One Important Thing | The Tim Ferriss Show #401 * The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan | Amazon * 31 Writing Lessons from Kurt Vonnegut | Industrial Scripts * Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell | Amazon

SHOW NOTES* [00:21] What to expect from this episode. * [03:26] How many clowns fit in my clown car? * [04:49] Am I solving or exacerbating my problems? * [05:54] The saving mantra: “Make before you manage.” * [09:11] Neil Gaiman on vulnerability. * [09:32] A reality check. * [10:13] The dangerous myths of “successful” people. * [10:59] You take the good, you take the bad… * [12:55] My eight-step process for maximizing efficacy. * [16:20] Remember this when you’re feeling far from perfect.

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Molly Ferriss * Neil Gaiman * Paul Graham * Gary Keller * Kurt Vonnegut

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“I am good at manifesting what I want, and I’m good at almost dying from getting what I want. So maybe there’s a better question to be asking than, ‘What do I want?'”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert (@elizabeth_gilbert_writer) is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love as well as several other international bestsellers. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, was named an instant New York Times bestseller—a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s.

Go to ElizabethGilbert.Substack.com to subscribe to “Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert,” her newsletter, which has more than 120,000 subscribers.

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Want to hear the first time Elizabeth Gilbert was on the podcast? Have a listen here to our conversation in which we discussed the legs of truth, writing as a source of light, an “interesting” way to defuse drama and trauma, what present Elizabeth endures for future Elizabeth, staying true to one’s inner compass before making commitments, and much more.

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Connect with Elizabeth Gilbert*:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert | Substack
• City of Girls: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #430
• The Celtic Prayer of Approach | Elizabeth Gilbert, Facebook
• Jerry Colonna — The Coach with the Spider Tattoo | The Tim Ferriss Show #373
• A House of Prayer for All People | Washington National Cathedral
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell | Amazon
• Welcome to Letters from Love | Elizabeth Gilbert
• An 11th Step Tool Rediscovered | Two-Way Prayer
• Marco Polo | The Genius of Play
• Song of Myself (1892 Version) | The Poetry Foundation
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman | Amazon
• The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon
• Chip Conley — Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal | The Tim Ferriss Show #374
• A Most Beautiful Thing | Prime Video
• A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper | Amazon
• What is Internal Family Systems? | IFS Institute
• Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy | Amazon
• Richard Schwartz — IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts | The Tim Ferriss Show #492
• Sharon Salzberg, World-Renowned Meditation Teacher | The Tim Ferriss Show #277
• The Self-Hatred Within Us | The On Being Project
• What is Calvinism? | Christianity.com
• Hangman God | The Joyce Project
• Martha Beck — The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days, How to Do a Beginner “Integrity Cleanse,” Lessons from Lion Trackers, and Novel Tactics for Reducing Anxiety (#732) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
• Growing and Caring for a Bonsai Tree | Bonsai Empire
• Why I Cut Off All My Hair by Elizabeth Gilbert | Oprah Daily
• Bog Witch Aesthetic by Water of Whimsy | Instagram
• Brené Brown — Striving versus Self-Acceptance, Saving Marriages, and More (#409) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
• The Revolution Of The Relaxed Woman | Prudence Henschke
• Eat Pray Love Author Elizabeth Gilbert Mourns Rayya Elias | The Cut
• Newtonian Physics vs. Special Relativity | Futurism
• What is Sufism? | The Threshold Society
• How Physicists Proved the Universe Isn’t Locally Real | Dr. Ben Miles
• Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Powerful Books, Mystics, Richard Dawkins, and the Dangers of Safe Spaces | The Tim Ferriss Show #455
• The Paradox of Why by Andrea Mignolo | Medium
• Purpose Anxiety | Life Curator
• Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Poetry Foundation
• Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow | Amazon
• The New Yorker Cartoons | The Cartoon Bank
• Jackass: The Movie | Prime Video
• Think About Your Death and Live Better | The Atlantic
• Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy | The Atlantic
• Letters from Love with Special Guest Toni Collette! | Substack
• Letters from Love with Special Guest Glennon Doyle! | Substack
• Letters from Love with Special Guest Moe Miyahara! | Substack
• Letters from Love with Special Guest BJ Armour! | Substack
• Studio Route 29 | Instagram
• Did Einstein Really Ask If the Universe Was Friendly? | Quora
• The Problem of Religion by Emil Carl Wilm | Google Books
• Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer | The Tim Ferriss Show #522
• Radio KFKD | Hypergraffiti

SHOW NOTES [00:07:14] No cherished outcomes. * [00:12:27] Self-compassionate ownership of responsibility. * [00:17:24] The daily practice of writing letters from love. * [00:23:54] Two-way prayer vs. one-way prayer. * [00:32:29] The male approach to this practice. * [00:35:59] How do you feel toward yourself vs. about yourself? * [00:38:25] Understanding self-hatred to foster self-friendliness. * [00:44:52] Setting boundaries and dealing with those who refuse to honor them. * [00:51:47] Why (and how) Elizabeth avoids big family holiday gatherings. * [00:53:47] Comfort in solitude. * [00:55:10] Much abuzz about Elizabeth’s new ‘do. * [00:59:24] Boundaries, priorities, and mysticism: a relaxed woman as a radical concept. * [01:05:34] What mysticism brings to Elizabeth’s reality. * [01:08:58] A better question to ask than “What do I want?” * [01:11:04] Elizabeth’s hard-ass approach to project commitment. * [01:18:12] Creativity guidance from Elizabeth’s higher power. * [01:22:40] How The Morning Pages influenced Eat, Pray, Love. * [01:25:59] More productive questions to ask than “Why?” * [01:27:48] The pointlessness of purpose anxiety. * [01:32:31] Balancing presence with other aspects of a well-lived life. * [01:37:49] Comfort with mortality. * [01:41:53] What motivates Elizabeth’s Letters from Love* newsletter? * [01:43:01] What can potential readers expect from this newsletter? * [01:48:05] “Is the universe friendly?” — Frederic W. H. Myers * [01:51:01] Parting thoughts.

MORE ELIZABETH GILBERT QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“I believe that I am loved beyond measure by a magnificent, complex, amused God who has given me power over practically nothing.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Writing gave me the thing that meditation promised, but I could never have it happen in meditation until very recently where time stops or changes, and I’m here but not here.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’m basically a bog witch, just rattling around in a house by myself, talking to myself, watering my plants, shaving my head, and it’s so cool.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“What if I’m not on duty all the time? What if I’m only on duty sometimes and I have to follow a deep inner voice that tells me when that is and what that is, and everything else you all can take care of yourselves.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Martial artists know that the most relaxed person in the room wins the fight.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’ve narrowed it down to three things that I need for me, for my system to be relaxed. It’s boundaries, priorities, and mysticism.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I am good at manifesting what I want, and I’m good at almost dying from getting what I want. So maybe there’s a better question to be asking than, ‘What do I want?'”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think ‘It’s hard’ is a really good way to start with self-compassion.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It’s a very difficult thing to have a human incarnation. This is not an easy ride. Even a good life is a hard life.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Who told you you were supposed to get it right straight out of the gate? Who told you you were supposed to get it right seven out of seven days, or that you’re constantly supposed to be improving like a Fortune 500 company, constantly going in this upward angle direction, a certain percentage every quarter? There’s billions of systems operating within your body alone, hormonal systems and chemical systems and viruses and bacteria. We’re such a complex mechanism, it’s so hard to figure out how to operate one of these things. I do really well in solitude, I can get this thing humming. I can get this machine and this mind and this heart where we are at a beautiful hum, but the instant you throw another complex human mechanism into my field, then I’ve got to adapt to their chemistry, and it’s hard.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I’m much, much, much more afraid of people not liking me than I am of dying. And that’s what I have to suffer with more, is to try to figure out how to disappoint people, and say no to people, and set boundaries with people that they can survive it, and I can survive. This is my work in this lifetime. But death, to me, it doesn’t keep me up at night.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Jerry Colonna * Rob Bell * Carole and John Gilbert * Hafez * Jalal al-Din Rumi * Mary Oliver * Walt Whitman * Julia Cameron * Chip Conley * Arshay Cooper * Richard Schwartz * Sharon Salzberg * The Dalai Lama * James Joyce * Martha Beck * Rachel Elizabeth Cargle * Michael Chabon * Dolly Parton * Brené Brow * Rayya Elias * Albert Einstein * Steve Jobs * Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks * J.P. Morgan * Alexander the Great * Genghis Khan * John D. Rockefeller * Yo-Yo Ma * Vladimir Putin * Toni Collette * Glennon Doyle * BJ Armour * Frederic W.H. Myers * Anne Lamott

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life.

This time, we have a slightly different format, and I’m the guest!

This past April was the podcast’s 10-year anniversary, and the platform River (getriver.io) helped listeners organize parties around the world in more than 180 cities! More than 4,000 people RSVP’d. I was able to join about 40 cities via Zoom for quick hellos and drinks (huge thanks to Rae and Ana for the quarterbacking), and I had a blast dropping in on the Paris meetup in person. Thanks to everyone who gathered for wine, celebration, and meeting like-minded people!

After all the parties, and as a thank you for their hard work, I invited all of the hosts to a private Q&A. And that’s what you’re about to hear.

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Want to hear my last Q&A? Listen to the episode here, in which I answer questions on resurrecting “forgotten” languages, dog training, writer’s block, reducing alcohol intake, AI companions, training the “good enough” muscle, low-back pain, the importance of weight training and muscle mass, travel recommendations for Japan, managing fear of death and the descent to death, breaking negative self-talk, and much, much more.

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE* A Guide to Spain’s Most Underrated City: Malaga | Travel Channel Blog * The Man Who Owned the World: David Bowie Made Reinvention an Art Form | Salon * Is It Better to Be Good at Many Things or Great at One Thing? | James Altucher * The Four Types of Archery Bows: Recurve, Longbow, Compound, and Crossbow | GearJunkie * Tim Ferriss Show 10th Anniversary Meetups | Twitter * A Fictional World Built for These Chaotic Times | The Legend of CØCKPUNCH * How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires… | Tim Ferriss * The Healthiest Red Meat on the Planet | Maui Nui Venison * Jake Muise — The Relentless Pursuit of Innovation, Quality, and Meaning | The Tim Ferriss Show #678 * The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change | Wired * Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs | The Tim Ferriss Show #542 * Wall Street Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI, Eyeing $38 Billion Opportunity | Finance Magnates * Me Trying Online Dating for the First Time in 100 Years | Tim Ferriss, Twitter * I Hired a Pickup Artist to Help Me Find a Girlfriend | The Tim Ferriss Experiment #7 * Eric Cressey, Cressey Sports Performance — Tactical Deep Dive on Back Pain, Movement Diagnosis, Training Principles, Developing Mobility, Building Power, Fascial Manipulation, and Rules for Athletes | The Tim Ferriss Show #675 * My New Rules for Podcasting – To Keep Things Interesting | Tim Ferriss * Never Gamble More than Your Beneficiaries Can Afford to Lose | Fillmore County Journal * Funding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei Foundation * BPC-157: Experimental Peptide Creates Risk for Athletes | USADA * Con Artist Definition | Merriam-Webster * Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss * Way of the Warrior Kid: From Wimpy to Warrior the Navy SEAL Way: A Novel by Jocko Willink and Jon Bozak | Amazon * Four Ways Social Support Makes You More Resilient | Greater Good * Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic * Metamucil 4-in-1 Daily Fiber Supplement Powder | Amazon * Citrucel Fiber Therapy Caplets | Amazon * Heresies — Exploring Animal Communication, Cloning Humans, The Dangers of The American Dream, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #677 * The Past Wasn’t Better. Choose the Present Instead | The Art of Non-Conformity * Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson — How Traders Make Billions in The New Age of Crisis, Defending Against Silent Risks, Personal Independence, Skepticism Where It (Really) Counts, The Bishop and The Economist, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #691 * The Life-Extension Episode — Dr. Matt Kaeberlein on The Dog Aging Project, Rapamycin, Metformin, Spermidine, NAD+ Precursors, Urolithin A, Acarbose, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #610 * Dr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to Pull | The Tim Ferriss Show #517 * The Myth of Ponce de León and the Fountain of Youth | History * Four Benefits of Follistatin and Side Effects | SelfHacked * Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trails | Kumano Travel * El Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage Routes in Spain | Camino Adventures * HOKA Shoes | Amazon * The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives | Tim Ferriss * The Barbell Strategy: A Financial Approach to Building Your Content Portfolio | Omniscient Digital * On Anger by Seneca | Amazon * What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits, and Side Effects | Healthline * Antidepressant & Psychedelic Drug Interaction Chart | Psychedelic School * Lithium | Drugs.com * Tea Time with Tim — How to Find Mentors, Decrease Anxiety Through Training, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #363 * Express Yourself Better | Toastmasters International * Find Your Place Among the World’s Leaders | Entrepreneurs’ Organization * The World Needs Better Leaders | YPO * Why Is My Kid Such an Asshole and What Can I Do About It? | Mumlyfe * Ozempic and Other Weight Loss Drugs Linked to Antidepressant Use | Psychiatrist.com * Magic Pill — Johann Hari and the New “Miracle” Weight-Loss Drugs | Tim Ferriss * The Painting Behind Me | Tim Ferriss * Publishing’s Essential Daily Website | Publishers Marketplace * How to Build a World-Class Network in Record Time | The Tim Ferriss Show #99 * Confirmation Bias | The Decision Lab * Five Reasons Why You Should Never Fully Rely on AI Generated Content | Synchronicity * What Humans Lose When AI Writes for Us | Scientific American * Binaural Beats: Sleep, Therapy, and Meditation | Healthline * Dog Breakfast Tips with Molly | Tim Ferriss * Pso-Rite Psoas Muscle Release and Deep Tissue Massage Tool | Amazon * The Tail End | Wait But Why * NAYOYA Acupressure Mat and Neck Pillow Set | Amazon * The Dating App Designed to Be Deleted | Hinge * Are You In? | The League * What Is Catfishing and How to Spot One | Esafety Commissioner * Dune: Part Two | Prime Video * Ex Machina | Prime Video * Her | Prime Video * The AI Companion Who Cares | Replika * Black Diamond Skiing: The Complete Guide | Carv * How to Do Super Slow Training | Origym * The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon * Audio-Technica ATH-M50xSTS-USB StreamSet Streaming Headset | Amazon * Talk It to the Next Level | Riverside * Can Single Parents Pursue Surrogacy? | Surrogate.com * The Five-Minute Journal | Amazon * Hodinkee | Wikipedia * Shingo Nakamura | SoundCloud * Deadmau5 | SoundCloud * Three Steps to Create a Breakthrough in Your Life | Tony Robbins

SHOW NOTES* [07:08] A focus on reinvention. * [07:43] Optimization. * [08:30] Recent joy. * [09:22] A CØCKPUNCH update. * [10:19] How the day’s going so far. * [10:55] Argentina affection. * [11:51] Intriguing investments. * [12:53] Top three snacks. * [13:12] AI thoughts. * [14:15] Modern dating. * [16:32] Self-experimentation to come. * [17:42] Analyzing the past decade’s risks. * [20:06] Outthinking a career bottleneck. * [21:09] My current big project. * [22:19] Peptides. * [22:37] Be wary of high conviction. * [23:06] Preparation for high-stakes presentations. * [24:42] Kid stuff? * [24:56] Getting the most out of a Tim Ferriss meetup. * [26:13] In-person conferences planned? * [26:18] IBS relief. * [27:03] Personal heresies. * [28:26] What makes conferences worthwhile for me? * [29:00] Longevity and healthspan. * [33:21] Tips for a father-and-son Kumano Kodo walk. * [34:49] A barbell distribution approach to life. * [35:31] Who would I resurrect for a podcast interview? * [36:24] Do I consult any mentors regularly? * [36:54] Ayahuasca and antidepressants. * [38:16] Incentivizing potential mentors. * [39:13] Adventures in babysitting. * [40:04] GLP-1 for depression/anxiety. * [40:37] Cheap but choice art. * [41:05] Finding a book agent. * [41:28] Making positive, in-person connections. * [41:44] Unmentioned things I’d like to talk about. * [43:39] Is there room for the irrational? * [45:59] Blogging in the age of AI. * [46:39] Binaural beats. * [46:56] 4-Hour Dog Training? * [47:00] Best $1,000 spent lately. * [47:55] Javier Milei. * [48:07] Best thing I spent an “assload” on. * [48:34] Painting. * [48:45] 10-20 minutes on the acupuncture mat. * [49:15] Dating apps. * [50:15] Favorite sci-fi movies. * [51:21] Reflecting on the impact this show has had on others. * [52:23] Why was I in Europe for six to eight weeks? * [52:31] The mood-altering effects of Q&A. * [52:48] Where do I see myself in 30 years? * [53:08] Workout routines for older parents. * [54:13] How I walk and talk for podcasts. * [54:33] Would I consider becoming a single parent? * [55:38] A $1 million coffee mug? * [56:52] Brazil. * [56:59] A small but mighty staff. * [57:07] Attracting event attendance. * [59:08] Visualization or affirmations? * [1:00:20] Today I learned this about Hodinkee. * [1:00:26] What would this look like if it were easy? * [1:00:32] What I ask show listeners when I meet them. * [1:00:50] Eschewing endorsement remorse. * [1:01:19] Music I like. * [1:01:52] State, story, strategy. * [1:01:59] The (not-so) funny thing about interviewing comedians. * [1:02:17] Parting thoughts.

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Molly Ferriss * Mike Tyson * Dean Martin * Nassim Nicholas Taleb * Juan Ponce de León * Richard P. Feynman * Marcus Aurelius * Seneca the Younger * Benjamin Franklin * Johann Hari * Javier Milei * Tim Urban * Warren Buffett * Ken Hutchins * Elon Musk * Shingo Nakamura * Deadmau5 * Tony Robbins * Joe Rogan

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. For this episode, I’m doing something different. I’m featuring a very special episode from a brand-new podcast called Altered States.

Here’s the teaser for the episode you’re about to hear: “For the last couple of years, producer Shaina Shealy has been following Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who have been coming together to drink the psychedelic brew ayahuasca in an effort to heal their collective intergenerational trauma. It seemed to be helping them when suddenly the region erupts into chaos and violence.”

Shaina Shealy was a fellow from the Ferriss-UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship, which offers ten $10,000 reporting grants per year to journalists reporting in-depth print and audio stories on the science, policy, business and culture of this new era of psychedelics. The fellowship is supported by my foundation, the Saisei Foundation, and made possible in collaboration with Michael Pollan, Malia Wollan, and others at UC Berkeley.

Altered States looks at how people are taking psychedelics, who has access to them, how they’re regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.

Please enjoy!

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform.*

Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#768: What Happens When Israelis and Palestinians Drink Ayahuasca Together?

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Altered States Podcast | UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
• Funding Cutting-Edge Scientific Research | Saisei Foundation
• The Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
• Israeli-Palestinian Conflict | Global Conflict Tracker
• What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits, and Side Effects | Healthline
• The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process | US Department of State
• Fostering Peace, Justice, Healing, and Transformation | Holy Land Trust
• Nonviolence in the Holy Land | Metta Center for Nonviolence
• The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin: ‘He Never Knew It Was One of His People Who Shot Him in the Back’ | The Guardian
• What is the Holocaust? | Anne Frank House
• Memorial and Museum | Auschwitz-Birkenau
• The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 | Al Jazeera
• A Look at How Settlements Have Grown in the West Bank over the Years | AP News
• How Generational Trauma Among Israelis and Palestinians Fuels the Cycles of Violence | NPR
• Rwanda’s Resilience: The Power of Forgiveness and Unity | United Nations Development Programme
• Remembering Israel’s Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem | Middle East Monitor
• Jewish Institute of Religion | Hebrew Union College
• Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research Team | Icahn School of Medicine
• Rachel Yehuda: Intergenerational Trauma and Healing | 18Forty
• Arrested Neo-Nazis Built a Weapon, Were Making DMT: Court Docs | Vice
• Sami Awad and Leor Roseman: Ayahuasca as a Peace-Making Tool Among Palestinians and Israelis | Psychedelic Science 2023, MAPS
• Second Intifada | Wikipedia
• Ya Fatima | Mesum Abbas
• October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by Hamas-Led Groups | Human Rights Watch
• Palestinian Poll Finds Big Drop in Support for Oct 7 Attack | Reuters
• Feeding Families Impacted by the Conflict in Gaza and Israel | World Central Kitchen
• Shiva: What You Need to Know | My Jewish Learning

SHOW NOTES [00:00:00] An intro to the Altered States* podcast and its mission. * [00:02:24] Shaina Shealy explains what ayahuasca is and how it affects the human brain. * [00:03:47] Palestinian Sami Awad’s peace activism and ayahuasca journey. * [00:17:18] Dr. Rachel Yehuda and the science of intergenerational trauma. * [00:19:27] How the Israeli-Palestinian ayahuasca experiment came about. * [00:25:47] Participants share their experiences. * [00:38:35] How the violent events of October 7th affected the participants and the project. * [00:45:52] Reflections on the experiment’s effectiveness and participants’ continued commitment to peace. * [00:50:29] Closing credits.

PEOPLE MENTIONEDEdwin Ochoa

Shaina Shealy

Arielle Duhaime-Ross

Michael Pollan

Malia Wollan

Sami Awad

William J. Clinton

Yitzhak Rabin

Shimon Peres

Yasser Arafat

Yigal Amir

Rachel Yehuda

Leor Roseman

Adizah Eghan

Jennie Cataldo

Cassady Rosenblum

Tommy Bazarian

Terence Bernardo

Graham Hacia

Michael Silver

Robert Jesse

Jocelyn Gonzales

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”— Mark Twain

For nearly 15 years, I started almost every public presentation with the above quote. First and foremost, it was a reminder to myself. It still is.

Four score and 750+ episodes ago, I started a podcast.

In 2023, The Tim Ferriss Show crossed a billion downloads. This past April marked the 10th anniversary of the first episode. It seemed as good a time as any to pause and reflect.

Let’s kick it off with a weird graph and wild numbers:

listennotes.com/podcast-stats/

The dip in 2022 is simply the resumption of pre-COVID trends, as 2020–2021 was an at-home anomaly. That said, the pandemic period saw some of the largest deals in the space, and it helped propel deal comps and mass media attention to new heights, a lot of which stuck around or at least heavily rounded up. The celebrities, the ad dollars, the gazillion-dollar exclusives, the controversies… It’s all been outrageously exciting to watch.

statista.com/chart/10713/podcast-listeners-in-the-united-states/

When I started my podcast in April of 2014, there were fewer than 200,000 podcasts listed on iTunes (as Apple Podcasts was called back then). At the time of writing this post, there are more than 4,200,000.

That represents a 20x+ increase, but there are other interesting metrics to ponder. Here’s one: bigger shows.

If we define a “bigger” show as any show with at least 100,000 downloads per episode, I would guess the total number of such shows has at least 100x’d. This is a massive paradox of choice and discovery issue. Having a good show is no longer good enough. Having a great show is no longer good enough.

If you want to survive in the mindshare of listeners, you need differentiation.

I think this is reflected in how well special-interest podcasts with a focus (e.g., The Drive with Peter Attia, Founders, Huberman Lab, Acquired) have done recently relative to newer interview-format shows where nearly anything goes.

As is so often the case, if you stand for everything, you can end up standing for nothing.

So, how do you differentiate yourself if every person and their grandma is starting a podcast?

If you’re starting from scratch, I think choosing a niche you have a bizarre love for—and therefore endurance for—makes a lot of sense.

If, on the other hand, you have a broader, interview-based legacy show, it can be a little tricky. Perhaps the business is great, but you see the writing on the wall and want to be ahead of the curve. As I see it, there are at least a few options:

(1) Start a new podcast with a niche focus. Sadly, I suspect I would get bored within weeks or months, but it’s not off the table…

(2) Pack up your tent and walk off into the sunset in search of other adventures.

(3) Create new and better rules.

I landed on #3.

In the midst of a weekly ship cycle, it’s hard to escape the collective pull of algo chasing, thumbnail tweaking, and details long enough to zoom out. The waters have been churning at a fever pitch, ever changing and ever faster. When you’re inside the washing machine, it’s very hard to step out and get perspective.

So I decided to take a sabbatical of roughly four months. It ended a few weeks ago.

During the sabbatical, I stopped recording new episodes, republished some of the greatest hits (e.g., Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Margaret Atwood, Jerry Seinfeld, and more), and did a lot of thinking.

The full break allowed me and my team enough breathing room to think about the long game. What do we want to do, and furthermore, why are we doing this at all?

Since nearly all the rules are made up anyway, I asked myself a bunch of questions, including:
**What might this look like if it were maximally fun?

What might this look like if it were easy?

If I get to do this for another decade, or had to do this for another decade, what new rules might I create to keep it interesting?**

Of course, these are implicitly “for me.” It’s a highly personal thing.

In my experience, keeping it interesting for me generally keeps it interesting for my lovely listeners. At the very least, it’s the only way to ensure I have the enthusiasm required for endurance.

Sure, sometimes what-Tim-likes is too strange and misses the mark, but trying to cater to the tastes of an abstract “audience” or the YouTube gods, without paying attention to what you like, has sent a lot of podcasts to the elephant graveyard.

And even if you manage to “win” that game, winning might be the mostdangerous.

Rather than getting Old Yeller’d behind the barn, you have just enough income or traction or validation or growth to make it seem crazy to stop. How could you shut it down? Then you adjust to the creeping boredom and incremental gains, and you convince yourself that it’s all a cost of doing business. You start by feeding the machine through the cage, only to wake up one day and realize that you’re the one inside the cage. For an extreme example, read this article on audience capture, but it can take many forms. Some are very subtle.

Media is a great tool and a merciless master.

Fortunately, this is NOT how things need to be.

Based on all of the above, here are some new rules that I’ll be implementing starting today:

No more book-launching episodes.The podcasting circuit has largely become the same authors appearing on 15–30 podcasts in any given week or two for book launches. It’s the modern equivalent of a radio satellite tour. For authors, I totally get it, but I’m over it, and I know a lot of my podcast friends are over it. It’s boring for everyone.

So, I’m opting out. No more book-launch episodes for a while.

If I make an exception, it will likely require that both of the following conditions are true:

– You’re a truly close friend, meaning we’ve known each other for at least 10 years, we’ve stayed at each other’s homes, see each other multiple times a year, etc.AND

– The episode will come out a minimum of three months before the book’s publication date. Early can be a great strategy for authors. This is exactly what I’ve done with past guests like Jocko Willink, who made his first-ever podcast appearance (in fact, first public interview) on The Tim Ferriss Show in September of 2015. I suggested we publish well before his pub date because this space would allow his publisher to gauge pre-order demand and substantially increase the initial print run. His first book, Extreme Ownership, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and the rest is history. Even one month is quite tight if overseas printing is involved, and sadly, a lot of podcasters don’t respect embargos (crabs in a bucket!), so… at least three months in advance it is.

90/10 barbell strategy for future guests. The barbell strategy is an approach to investing popularized by past guest, author, and self-described flâneur Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

The metaphor of the barbell is apt because weights are placed at the far ends. In the investing context and in simple terms, the majority of your assets might be in very conservative positions with the remaining assets in very high-risk, very high-reward bets. For instance, municipal bonds and angel investing. The middle is empty.

But how could you apply this to a podcast? It’s actually very easy. Just look for extremes. I apply the barbell approach all over my life and business.

In the case of The Tim Ferriss Show, I will aim to interview guests who are either:

Known by more than 90% of my audience (e.g., Jeff Bezos, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey)
Or
Known by less than 10% of my audience (e.g., some of my favorite past episodes, like *Dr. BJ Miller, Boyd Varty,* Dr. Sue Johnson*, or* Elan Lee**)

I’m trying to avoid the messy middle, which is a Tokyo subway car of repeat guests on the circuit. It’s crowded, and I don’t like crowded. Cue The Blue Ocean Strategy.

Prioritizing living legends.I love people who’ve mastered a craft and who seldom—or never—do podcasts.

I really enjoy interviewing masters who’ve produced excellence decade after decade. This often means such people have some gray hair, and I would love to celebrate them and immortalize their wisdom while they’re still sharp. The last person holding a tradition, the 10th generation of X, a reclusive genius… you get the idea.

Experimental hyperdrive. I’ve experimented a lot on the show in the past, and I’m going to put that into hyperdrive. It’s simply more fun.

I have done podcasts in saunas (e.g., Rick Rubin’s first-ever podcast), live Q&As, walk-and-talk episodes in the mountains, drunk-dialing fans for shits and giggles, interviews in taxis in Uzbekistan, audiobook excerpts, and more. It’s easy to assume that slick, labor-intensive, polished episodes get the most downloads, but it’s simply not true. And much more important, the experimentation keeps things fun and fresh. After all, I still consider this the early days for podcasting. Less than one-third of terrestrial radio ad spend has landed in podcasting thus far, and there’s lots of room left to innovate and make strange things work.

If you only stick with what has worked, you might miss something that works a whole lot better.

So, if you want to listen to one podcast that delivers a variety of fun stuff in a variety of formats, that’s the next chapter. Maybe I should rebrand as The Tim Ferriss Variety Show… or make a mobile-only TimTim WalkWalk? That last one is for the oldies.

So, let’s get this party started.

I’ll continue to add to these policies and this blog post, but in the meantime, I would love your suggestions:

**What would you like to see or hear on the podcast?

Are there any experiments that would tickle your fancy? Or podcasts or formats I should see for inspiration?

Any guests that fit the 90/10 barbell strategy? Living legends?

Other thoughts or suggestions?

Please let me know in the comments below! Comments here are far better than social media, as I’ll actually see them.** And thanks for reading this far.

All the best to you and yours,

Tim

P.S. If you haven’t already, you can subscribe to The Tim Ferriss Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your audio niblets.

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“I get very, very angry when people misinterpret the word ‘complicit’ for ‘responsible.’ And it’s not because I want to let people off the hook but quite the opposite. I want people to understand that they’ve been an accomplice. When we get into our mindset that says, ‘I am responsible for all the shit in my life,’ we’re actually walking away from doing the hard work.”
— Jerry Colonna

Here is my brand-new conversation with Jerry Colonna, CEO and co-founder of Reboot.io, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to the notion that better humans make better leaders. He is the author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up and Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong.

Please enjoy!

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform.*

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The transcript of this episode can be found here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.

Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#767: Tim and Uncle Jerry Tackle Life, Big Questions, Business, Parenting, and Disco DuckThis episode is brought to you by The League. I’ve tried all the dating apps, and while there are some slick options out there, the most functional that I’ve found is The League. I’ve been using it for a few months now, and I’ve found some great matches. Unlike most dating apps, which give you almost no information, The League starts you with a baseline of smart people, and you can then easily find the ones you’re attracted to. More than half of League users went to top-40 colleges, and you can make your filters really selective. You can search by interest across multiple locations, and people verify using LinkedIn, so you can make sure they have a job and don’t bounce around every 6 months. It’s a simple proxy for finding people who have their act together, and it’s infinitely easier than trying to figure things out on Instagram or otherwise.

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What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

Want to hear the last time Jerry Colonna was on the show? Listen to our conversation in which we discussed Jerry’s annual two-month sabbatical, how and why even someone on a limited budget can and should make time for their own version of such a sabbatical, successful versus unsuccessful sabbaticals, coping with crises off the grid, hot and cold boredom, and much more.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Connect with Jerry Colonna:*

Reboot.io | Twitter | Instagram | Threads

• Reunion: Leadership and the Longing to Belong by Jerry Colonna | Amazon
• Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna | Amazon
• Jerry Colonna — How to Reboot Yourself and Feel Unrushed in the New Year | The Tim Ferriss Show #554
• Jerry Colonna — The Coach with the Spider Tattoo | The Tim Ferriss Show #373
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Amazon
• Breathe Right Strips | Amazon
• Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide | Tim Ferriss
• This Column Will Change Your Life: Just Sit Down and Think | The Guardian
• 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) | Investopedia
• How to Cage the Monkey Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #175
• Cartesian Dualism | Philosophy Tube
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer | Amazon
• Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William Richards | Amazon
• “The Dose Makes the Poison.” | Chemical Safety Facts
• Celebrating Print and Its Impact on the World | National Print Museum Dublin
• The Proclamation of the Irish Republic | National Museum of Ireland
• My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464
• Marc Andreessen — Lessons, Predictions, and Recommendations from an Icon | The Tim Ferriss Show #163
• Did Carl Jung Say “I Am Not What Has Happened to Me, I Am What I Choose to Become”? If So, Where? | Quora
• “Greed Is Good” (Clip) | Wall Street
• Stress in America 2023: A Nation Recovering from Collective Trauma | APA
• Israel–Hamas War | Wikipedia
• Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds | The Tim Ferriss Show #39
• Sharon Salzberg, World-Renowned Meditation Teacher | The Tim Ferriss Show #277
• The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink | Amazon
• Our Moral Compass: Understanding Guilt, Remorse, and Atonement | This Jungian Life
• Legacy: A Powerful Rite of Passage | Social Work Today
• Uncovering Secrets of the Sphinx | Smithsonian Magazine
• World Heritage Site | Robben Island Museum
• What is the Hoffman Process? | Hoffman Institute Foundation
• Timothy Ferriss | The DO Lectures
• Liam Dutton Nails Pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch | Channel 4 News
• This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin | The Poetry Foundation
• A Star Is Born (1937) | Prime Video
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron | Amazon
• Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg | Amazon
• The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts | Amazon
• Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth | Amazon
• 18 Miles of Books | Strand Book Store
• The Art of ‘Call It Sleep’ | The New York Review of Books
• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis | Amazon
• Volumes Archive | Library of America
• Collected Essays by James Baldwin (Library of America) | Amazon
• Port William Novels & Stories by Wendell Berry (Library of America) | Amazon
• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker | Amazon
• Disco Duck by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots (Live Midnight Special) | YouTube

SHOW NOTES* [08:40] “How have I been complicit in creating the conditions I say I don’t want?” and its misinterpretations. * [21:55] Recharging off the grid on sabbatical. * [24:41] Is a tired dog a happy dog? * [29:21] What are you hearing that’s not being said? * [33:14] Closing transgenerational, transpersonal, and intergenerational wounds. * [44:05] Focusing on the future when the past keeps pulling us back. * [52:18] Changes in challenges Reboot’s clients have faced over the past decade. * [55:34] Guilt vs. remorse and how to move from one to the other. * [1:01:40] Interpretations of legacy. * [1:13:17] Jerry’s parenting experience and advice. * [1:19:02] My thoughts on having children and grandchildren. * [1:24:54] “This Be the Verse” by Philip Larkin. * [1:26:08] Book recommendations and their impact on Jerry and his children. * [1:28:46] Novel truths. * [1:32:40] The importance of laughter and human connection in difficult times. * [1:35:45] Parting thoughts.

MORE JERRY COLONNA QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“I get very, very angry when people misinterpret the word ‘complicit’ for ‘responsible.’ And it’s not because I want to let people off the hook but quite the opposite. I want people to understand that they’ve been an accomplice. When we get into our mindset that says, ‘I am responsible for all the shit in my life,’ we’re actually walking away from doing the hard work.”
— Jerry Colonna

“So many people that I encounter, myself included, spend our childhood pendulating between grandiosity and a sense of worthlessness. ‘I’m either shit or I am the best.'”
— Jerry Colonna

“Good people do bad things all the time. Good people who do bad things who don’t learn are less evolved, less mature, than good people who do bad things who then learn through regret and remorse, but they remain good people.”
— Jerry Colonna

“The best of all the accomplishments I’ve ever done has been becoming the father that I needed as a child, without a doubt.”
— Jerry Colonna

“My capacity to bullshit myself continues unabated. And no matter how progressive I think I am and evolved I think I am, my ability to be deluded by my own mind knows no end.”
— Jerry Colonna

“It’s kind of a fucked up world we’re in right now. But to understand that there’s a human connection that can be gotten even in the midst of all this, I think, is incredibly important right now.”
— Jerry Colonna

“I think that as parents, we can become so afraid of fucking it up and hurting them, that we get wrapped around our own anxiety, our own narcissism. And then we lose the connection, which is the thing that our children want more than anything else.”
— Jerry Colonna

“When you lean into the questions that you need answered in your own life, you end up positively impacting other people.”
— Jerry Colonna

“Can you apologize to your children? Oh, my God, what a powerful tool that is.”
— Jerry Colonna

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Avivah Sayres * Blaise Pascal * René Descartes * Parker J. Palmer * William A. Richards * Paracelsus * Jerry’s Dad * Jerry’s Grandma * Marc Andreessen * Carl Jung * Gordon Gekko * Maria Popova * Sharon Salzberg * Daniel Pink * Alexander the Great * Nelson Mandela * Joy-Tendai Kangere * Mike, Sam, and Emma Colonna * Sylvia Plath * Dr. Seuss * Pema Chodron * Henry Roth * Alfred Kazin * James Baldwin * Wendell Berry * Alan Watts * Gavin de Becker * Donald Duck

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it’s my job to interview world-class performers from every imaginable discipline to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply to your own lives.

This time, we have a very special episode I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose in person at his house. We trade our latest discoveries, and I think it’s one of our best. Tons of actionable takeaways and laughing fits.

We cover dozens of topics: new projects, what I’ve done on my recent sabbatical after the podcast’s 10th anniversary, Kevin’s latest findings and shenanigans, real vampire protocols, and much, much more.

Please enjoy!

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What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments

Want to hear the last time Kevin and I put on a Random Show? Listen to our conversation here, in which we discussed reasons to celebrate, the SAINT protocol and accelerated TMS, how to appear human in social situations, Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson, extending experiential lifespan, interesting vs. impulse, Jinjer and Sohn, Android and Gemini, and much more.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Connect with Kevin Rose*:

Website | Instagram | Twitter | Threads

• The Top Idea in Your Mind | Paul Graham
• The Scariest Navy SEAL Imaginable…And What He Taught Me | The Tim Ferriss Show #107
• The All-In Podcast with Chamath, Jason, Sacks, and Friedberg
• Pro Portraits Created with AI | PicStudio.ai
• PicStudio.AI-Enhanced Tim Ferriss | Instagram
• PicStudio.AI-Enhanced Kevin Rose | Instagram
• What Is the Uncanny Valley? | IEEE Spectrum
• Kevin’s New Tattoo by Jess Mascetti | Instagram
• What Are Vampire Facial and PRP Treatments? | Allure
• Eight Years of the Romanian Vampire Protocol (RVP) | Instagram
• ‘Catwoman’ Jocelyn Wildenstein, 82, Reveals Her Face Pre-surgery in Surprising Throwback Photo | Hello!
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Staph Infection Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic
• Purely Crafted | LALO Tequila
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004) | Prime Video
• An Extitutional Community Prototyping the World of Tomorrow | Feÿtopia
• The Château of Possibilities | Château du Feÿ
• Castle Anthrax (Clip) | Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Michael Jackson on Fire Diorama | Bobby Fingers
• Drunk Mel Gibson Arrest Diorama | Bobby Fingers
• Bobby Fingers | Patreon
• Atlas Trainer Frame System | Outdoorsmans
• Why Rucking Is Every Man’s Favorite New Fitness Trend | Men’s Health
• Every Season Starts at Dick’s | Dick’s Sporting Goods
• DEXA Scan (DXA): Bone Density Test, What Is It and How It’s Done | Cleveland Clinic
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• To Bivy or Not to Bivy? That Is the Ultimate Question | Gohunt
• 17 Intriguing Rye Whiskey Cocktails | The Spruce Eats
• The World’s First Smartbrush | Feno
• Gum Recession Causes, Prevention, Surgery, and Treatment | Cleveland Clinic
• Kevin’s Thoughts on Ethereum In Early 2014 | The Tim Ferriss Show #24
• What Is Mimetic Theory? | Shared Ignorance
• Understanding the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon | Healthline
• ChatGPT | OpenAI
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham | Amazon
• Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters | Berkshire Hathaway
• The Calculated Contrarian: Extreme Security, Extreme Risk, Extraordinary Returns | Kevin Rose
• The Painted Porch Bookshop | Bastrop, TX
• What Is Stoicism? A Definition and Nine Stoic Exercises to Get You Started | Daily Stoic
• The Etymology of Trivia: A Place Where Three Roads Meet | Useless Etymology
• Longer, Healthier Lives for All Dogs…And Their Humans | Dog Aging Project
• The Life-Extension Episode — Dr. Matt Kaeberlein on The Dog Aging Project, Rapamycin, Metformin, Spermidine, NAD+ Precursors, Urolithin A, Acarbose, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #610
• Meditation Training Program | The Way
• Original Love: The Four Inns on the Path of Awakening by Henry Shukman | Amazon
• Sanbo Zen Lineage | Mountain Cloud Zen Center
• Henry Shukman — Zen, Tools for Awakening, Ayahuasca vs. Meditation, Intro to Koans, and Using Wounds as the Doorway | The Tim Ferriss Show #531
• Zen Master Henry Shukman — 20 Minutes of Calm, Plus the Strange and Powerful World of Koans | The Tim Ferriss Show #560
• New Mexico Chile | Wikipedia
• A Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s Disease: The Promising Potential of Klotho for Brain Health, Cognitive Decline, and as a Therapeutic Tool for Alzheimer’s Disease with Dena Dubal, M.D., Ph.D. | The Peter Attia Drive Podcast #303
• What is Alzheimer’s Disease? | alz.org
• Longevity Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition in Aged Nonhuman Primates | Nature Aging
• The Future of Sleep with Dr. Matt Walker | Kevin Rose
• Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep | The Tim Ferriss Show #650
• Dr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep Continued — The Hidden Dangers of Melatonin, Tools for Insomnia, Enhancing Learning and Sleep Spindles, The Upsides of Sleep Divorce, How Sleep Impacts Sex (and Vice Versa), Adventures in Lucid Dreaming, The One Clock to Rule Them All, The IP Addresses of Your Memories, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #654
• As A Scientist, I Didn’t Believe In Psychic Powers. Then I Experienced Something That Changed My Life. | HuffPost Personal
• An Honest Liar | Prime Video
• What Is Reiki? And Does It Actually Work? | Cleveland Clinic
• Dora the Explorer (TV Series 2000–2019) | IMDb
• Shipibo-Conibo | Wikipedia
• Kichwa-Lamista People | Wikipedia
• Relearning the Language of a Lost World | Noema
• Plant Dietas: The Mysterious Language of Plant Teachers & Ayahuasca | Ayahuasca Wisdom
• Banisteriopsis Caapi | Wikipedia
• Psychotria Viridis (Chacruna) | Wikipedia
• Ryan Graves, Advanced Navy Fighter Pilot and UFOs | The Kevin Rose Show #34
• Jerry Seinfeld’s 2024 Commencement Address | Duke University
• David Hockney: The Art of Seeing | The Culture Show
• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy | Amazon
• The Bear by Andrew Krivak | Amazon
• The Birth of Saké | Prime Video
• Japanese Sake “Hakuryu” | Yoshida Brewery
• America’s Premiere Sake Store | True Sake
• Hitorimusume Saké, Junmai Nigori | Astor Wines & Spirits
• Hi Ren (Official Music Video) | Ren
• Matthew Perry Died from Acute Effects of Ketamine, Autopsy Says | AP News
• Golden Afternoon Ketamine Clinic in L.A.
• Ketamine: My On-Camera Experience with a Treatment That Could Reshape Mental Health Worldwide | The Kevin Rose Show
• Your Home for Exploring, Creating, and Sharing | Prompt Hunt
• The Well of Being: A Children’s Book for Adults by Jean-Pierre Weill | Amazon
• Are You Hunting Antelope or Field Mice? | Tim Ferriss
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon

SHOW NOTES [07:40] A sabbatical recap and future podcasting plans. * [15:25] PicStudio’s disturbingly realistic AI-generated portraits. * [17:25] Kevin’s new Jess Mascetti tattoo. * [18:08] Vampire facials and a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) problem. * [22:22] Tequila martinis. * [24:20] Romance versus radical planning. * [32:50] Bobby Fingers. * [34:46] Training for the hunt. * [41:15] Fairbanks fun. * [42:11] European dating. * [43:46] Hasty oral hygiene with Feno. * [48:00] The mysteries of mimetic contagion. * [49:21] Big book beginnings. * [50:15] Kevin’s AI-powered investment advisor experiment. * [51:34] Publishing strategies. * [52:25] Why you should visit Ryan Holiday’s bookstore. * [53:53] A visit from a 14-year-old Toaster. * [54:40] The Dog Aging Project. * [55:14] Original Love*: Zen master Henry Shukman’s new book. * [55:37] Kevin’s Zen Hell week. * [58:10] Dena Dubal’s Alzheimer’s treatment breakthrough. * [1:07:45] Small expectations for a medium turn large. * [1:14:44] Inexplicable skill efficacy and hypernatural happenings. * [1:23:47] Another outstanding Addison-refined refreshment. * [1:24:39] Unmissable media recommendations. * [1:31:18] Taking ketamine seriously. * [1:39:37] More tequila and tattoo talk. * [1:40:27] What’s the Flux? * [1:45:34] A children’s book for adults. * [1:46:40] Are you hunting antelope or field mice? * [1:48:12] Analyzing what “chill” looks like for me. * [1:57:02] Parting thoughts.

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Addison Kowalski * Jocko Willink * Jeff Bezos * Paul Graham * Steve Jobs * Jess Mascetti * Bruce Willis * Bobby Fingers * Michael Jackson * Mel Gibson * Jake Kaminski * Warren Buffett * Ryan Holiday * Toaster Pinot Rose * Darya Rose * Matt Kaeberlein * Brian Armstrong * Henry Shukman * Peter Attia * Dena Dubal * Adam Gazzaley * Matthew Walker * James Randi * Derren Brown * Ryan Graves * Jerry Seinfeld * David Hockney * Cormac McCarthy * Michael Herr * Quentin Tarantino * Andrew Krivak * Ren Gill * Matthew Perry * Jennifer Ellice * Jean-Pierre Weill * Nate Taylor * Ron Jeremy

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #79 “Chris Sacca on Being Different and Making Billions” and #729 “Legendary Actor Scott Glenn — How to Be Super Fit at 85, Lessons from Marlon Brando, How to Pursue Your Purpose, The Art of Serendipity, Stories of Gunslingers, and More.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#765: Chris Sacca and Scott GlennThis episode is brought to you by AG1! I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG1 further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.

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SHOW NOTES [05:19] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:23] Enter Chris Sacca. * [06:53] Traits of founders for whom success, at massive scale, seems predestined. * [08:00] Travis Kalanick and Nintendo Wii Tennis. * [09:55] Resources for cultivating investing chops, emotional intelligence, and general empathy. * [18:37] Chris’ evolving concept of success. * [22:31] What Chris and his brother Brian’s parents did right. * [26:47] What Chris looks for when hiring. * [29:23] The prophetic notebook. * [31:29] Advice to aimless college graduates. * [34:06] Two differentiators that shifted the nature of Chris’ business * [38:16] Enter Scott Glenn. * [38:44] Idaho vs. Los Angeles. * [44:59] Apocalypse Now, self-confidence soon after. * [49:00] Burt Lancaster’s movie star lessons. * [54:41] The birth and death of Wes Hightower. * [1:03:56] Catching the attention of James Bridges. * [1:06:12] Scarlet fever. * [1:07:57] From Marine to police reporter. * [1:12:42] Berghof Studios and parental advice. * [1:21:12] Converting to Judaism. * [1:24:04] Lao Tzu: the ultimate mystic? * [1:28:44] Letting go with Killer Joe*. * [1:33:20] “Crazy Whitefella Thinking.” * [1:38:53] Getting out of the way and Erwan Le Corre. * [1:42:19] Lessons from the “morally phenomenal” Marlon Brando. * [1:46:54] How Scott’s childhood bout with scarlet fever informed his life’s course. * [1:49:33] Daily routines and exercises of an in-shape 85-year-old. * [2:05:46] Securing a serendipitous skill set. * [2:12:41] Thailand talk. * [2:16:46] Increasing surface luck. * [2:17:32] How Scott met and fell in love with his wife. * [2:23:32] “Just dance.” * [2:24:14] Mistakenly calling Rudolf Nureyev Russian. * [2:26:24] Poetry. * [2:30:31] What Laurence Olivier knew about the value of tenacity. * [2:32:09] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Chris Sacca:

Website | Instagram

• Lowercase Capital
• Lowercarbon Capital
• Shark Tank | ABC.com
• Partial List of Chris’ Investments
• Tennis | Wii Sports Wiki
• “My Name Is Inigo Montoya” (Clip) | The Princess Bride
• The History of Uber — Uber’s Timeline | Uber Newsroom
• Feld Thoughts Blog | Brad Feld
• The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman | Amazon
• Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived by Laurence Shames and Peter Barton | Amazon
• How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid | Amazon
• The Wolf of Wall Street | Prime Video
• Wrecked (TV Series 2016–2018) | IMDb
• Western New York’s Premier Destination for Music, Theatre, Family Fun | Artpark
• Cork City: Top 9 Attractions | Ireland.com
• Investment Banker: What They Do, Required Skills, and Examples | Investopedia
• Chris Sacca’s Commencement Address at the Carlson School of Management | University of Minnesota

Connect with Scott Glenn:

IMDb

• Room Service Poems for Carol | Carol Glenn Ceramics
• Friction Zone by Scott Glenn | Carol Glenn Ceramics
• Scott Glenn Prefers Living Away From the Hollywood Hubbub | Deseret News
• Bighorn Crags: Climbing, Hiking, and Mountaineering | SummitPost
• Challis, Idaho | Chamber of Commerce
• The Baby Maker | Prime Video
• Nashville | Prime Video
• Apocalypse Now | Prime Video
• Universal Studios Hollywood
• Scott Glenn Landed His ‘Apocalypse Now’ Role After Saving Francis Ford Coppola’s Life | The Hollywood Reporter
• Baretta | IMDb
• Cattle Annie & Little Britches | Prime Video
• Wild Bunch | Wikipedia
• The Studios At Paramount
• 13 and a 1/2 | Urban Dictionary
• Nuestra Familia | Wikipedia
• Urban Cowboy | Prime Video
• Scott Glenn as Wes Hightower | Frostbite
• A Look Back at How Gilley’s Gave Us ‘Urban Cowboy’ | Texas Highways
• Collision Course: An Omnibus of Plays at Cafe Au Go Go (1968) | AbeBooks
• Scott Glenn Talks The Defenders, Daredevil, and The Leftovers | Esquire
• Scarlet Fever: All You Need to Know | CDC
• Benzylpenicillin | Wikipedia
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) | Prime Video
• This Is How to See if You Would’ve Been Drafted for Vietnam | Military.com
• Snap-on Tools
• April 2, 1963 | Kenosha News Archive
• One of the Original Acting Studios in NYC | HB Studio
• Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad | Wikipedia
• The Salvation Army USA
• How to Convert to Judaism | My Jewish Learning
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu | Amazon
• Practical Shooting: Beyond Fundamentals by Brian Enos | Amazon
• Mysticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Why Do Creationists Keep Saying Carbon Dating Is Debunked? | r/Atheism
• What Kind Of Fish Swallowed Jonah? How Did He Survive? | I Love Docs
• Scott Glenn And Killer Joe: A Perfect Fit | Playbill
• The Leftovers | Prime Video
• ‘The Leftovers’: Scott Glenn on His “Unpredictable, Subversive” Character | The Hollywood Reporter
• Don’t Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training by Karen Pryor | Amazon
• Vince Vaughn to Star in ‘Bad Monkey’ from ‘Ted Lasso’ Co-Creator | The Hollywood Reporter
• Eugene the Marine | IMDb
• Stories From the UN Archive: Marlon Brando, the UN’s First Frontman for Water | UN News
• Bizarre Things That Happened on the Apocalypse Now Set | Looper
• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art | RADA
• What Is Method Acting? | We Are Actors
• Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire: Why the Method Actor’s Co-Stars Couldn’t Stand Him | Slate
• Where Was Apocalypse Now Filmed? | The Cinemaholic
• Rolling Stones: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | The Ed Sullivan Show
• Simple 10-Minute Daily Ear Massage & Acupressure | Qigong of Tulsa
• How to Breathe Properly | Breathwrk
• How Humming Stimulates Your Vagus Nerve for Stress Relief | Bustle
• Pressing Reset: Original Strength Reloaded by Tim Anderson and Geoff Neupert | Amazon
• The Quick and the Dead: Total Training for the Advanced Minimalist by Pavel Tsatsouline | Amazon
• Kettlebells | Amazon
• The Most Brutal Push-Up Exercise (Prison Push-Ups) | Victor Gaspar
• Resistance Bands Vs Weights: Which Gives The Better Workout? | Marathon Handbook
• Resistance Bands | Amazon
• FeetUp | Amazon
• Scott Glenn is a 75-Year-Old Knife-Fighting, Spear-Fishing Madman | GQ
• Where to See Manatees in Florida | Visit Florida
• Master Your Inner Experience | Breath Hold Work
• Freediving Apnea Trainer
• The Actors Studio
• Decompression Sickness | Harvard Health
• Learn to Dive Today | NAUI Worldwide
• Static Line Skydiving: Is It Really Safe? | DZONE Skydiving
• Golden Knights | GoArmy.com
• Everything We Know About ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 | Robb Report
• Krabi-Krabong: Thailand’s Traditional Martial Art | Fighters Vault
• Where to Watch Muay Thai Fights in Bangkok | HeavyBJJ
• Off Limits (1988) | IMDb
• Lesser Vehicle | Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
• Savate | Wikipedia
• Asia’s Infamous Golden Triangle and the Soldiers Tracking down the Drug Smugglers Who Rule Its Narcotics Trade | ABC News
• Three Pagodas Pass Much More Than A Border Gate | The Lost Passport
• How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area | Codus Operandi
• The Right Stuff | Prime Video
• Tosca Cafe, San Francisco: An Oral History | Bon Appétit
• Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov in “Giselle” (1977) | American Ballet Theater
• Easy Writer | Sun Valley Magazine
• Slow Riding Tips: How to Ride a Motorcycle at Slow Speeds | Harley-Davidson Insurance
• The SVD Dragunov: The World’s Most Prolific Sniper Rifle And Its Olympic Roots | Gun Digest

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Kevin Systrom * Evan Williams * Patrick Collison * John Collison * Travis Kalanick * Inigo Montoya * Garrett Camp * Brad Feld * Josh Kopelman * Peter Barton * John Doerr * Michael Moritz * Bill Gates * Melinda French Gates * Crystal English Sacca * Brian Sacca * Martin Scorsese * Katherine Sacca * Gerald Sacca * Carol Glenn * Eric Ryback * Robert Altman * Francis Ford Coppola * Richard M. Colby * Martin Sheen * Marlon Brando * Dennis Hopper * Vittorio Storaro * William Shakespeare * Rupert Hitzig * Rod Steiger * Burt Lancaster * Amanda Plummer * Diane Lane * Pablo Picasso * James Bridges * Jack Larson * Ryan O’Neal * Sam Shepard * Irving Azoff * Freddy Fender * Debra Winger * John Travolta * Wes Hightower * Edward Parone * Aaron Latham * Lord Byron * Walter Mitty * William Hickey * Lao Tzu * Brian Enos * Mike Johnson * Tracy Letts * Damon Lindelof * Mimi Leder * Molly Ferriss * David Gulpilil * Vince Vaughn * Konstantin Stanislavski * Isaac Boleslavsky * Laurence Fishburne * Gray Frederickson * Erwan Le Corre * Scott Reitz * Lee Strasberg * John Shaw * Kurt Johnstad * James Stewart * Jimmy Stewart * Jacques Cousteau * Forrest Gump * Gregory Hines * Fred Ward * Freddie Fields * Rudolf Nureyev * Matt Mattox * Vladimir Putin * Natalia Makarova * Laurence Olivier

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #133 “Edward Norton on Mastery, Must-Read Books, and The Future of Crowdfunding” and #732 “Martha Beck — The Amazing and Brutal Results of Zero Lies for 365 Days, How to Do a Beginner ‘Integrity Cleanse,’ Lessons from Lion Trackers, and Novel Tactics for Reducing Anxiety.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:45] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:48] Enter Edward Norton. * [07:19] Edward’s introduction to acting. * [08:45] First theater mentors and what they instilled in Edward. * [12:11] Who comes to mind when Edward hears the word “successful?” * [13:18] Most gifted books. * [14:28] Life-changing essays. * [15:50] Favorite documentaries. * [16:40] Underrated movies. * [18:51] Edward’s advice to his younger selves. * [20:09] Community appreciation. * [22:37] Enter Martha Beck.* * [23:08] My contribution to teen atrociousness. * [23:40] Connecting with Boyd Varty. * [29:28] The path of not here. * [33:25] Finding joy in the body can save your life. * [38:18] The pregnant pause that ended Martha’s obsession with intellect. * [43:52] Sensitivity and suffering. * [47:38] The year of living lie-lessly. * [52:37] An illuminating change of perspective. * [1:02:08] The path to taking a black belt integrity cleanse. * [1:05:36] Owning your right to say “No.” * [1:09:39] Alternatives to “No” that remain honest. * [1:13:05] The language of candor. * [1:15:24] Ending relationships that have run their course. * [1:16:30] The Asian influence. * [1:20:20] Sweet or savory? * [1:21:30] Are you comfortable? * [1:23:27] Want vs. yearning and jumping the track. * [1:36:30] Rhino ruminations. * [1:38:00] The Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell, and Byron Katie. * [1:49:13] America’s Goethe? * [1:52:15] Weighing kryptonite against superpowers. * [2:00:09] Exploring the opposite of anxiety. * [2:12:55] Dick Schwartz and Internal Family Systems. * [2:17:46] Compassion even for the self’s unwanted pieces. * [2:20:14] Favorite animal. * [2:24:52] Equine therapy. * [2:31:00] Selling the ranch. * [2:34:31] The monkey whisperer. * [2:36:00] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Edward Norton:

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Motherless Brooklyn | Prime Video
• Primal Fear | Prime Video
• American History X | Prime Video
• Fight Club | Prime Video
• The Grand Budapest Hotel | Prime Video
• Birdman | Prime Video
• Things to Do in Columbia, MD | Visit Howard County
• Lee Strasberg’s Method | On Location Education
• Stella Adler’s Technique | Backstage
• The Meisner Acting Technique | Backstage
• Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Amazon
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | Amazon
• Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 (Including Second Wind) by Václav Havel | Internet Archive
• The Catastrophe of Success by Tennessee Williams | Genius
• The Cruise | Prime Video
• Capote | Prime Video
• Moneyball | Prime Video
• Foxcatcher | Prime Video
• The Century of the Self | ThoughtMaybe
• The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear | ThoughtMaybe
• The Beat That My Heart Skipped | IMDb
• A Prophet (Un Prophète) | Prime Video
• Rust And Bone | Prime Video
• Biutiful | Prime Video
• The Revenant | Prime Video
• Nietzsche on Self-Overcoming | Eternalised

Connect with Martha Beck:

Website | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

• Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose by Martha Beck | Amazon
• Bewildered Podcast
• The Gathering Room Podcast
• The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck | Amazon
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• Boyd Varty — The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #571
• The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life by Boyd Varty | Amazon
• Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith by Martha Beck | Amazon
• Londolozi Game Reserve
• Full Circle by Dave Varty | Amazon
• The Lion Tracker’s Guide To Life Quotes by Boyd Varty | Goodreads
• How to Track Your Life’s Purpose | Martha Beck
• The Porcupine and the Tamboti Tree | Londolozi Blog
• Tracking Lion | Londolozi Blog
• “Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Magic.” | CCCB LAB
• Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss
• Lamont Library | Harvard Library
• The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson | Academy of American Poets
• Croc Attacks Son of Conservationist | IOL
• What Makes Crocodiles Such Stealthy Hunters? | Londolozi Blog
• About Down Syndrome | National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS)
• Have You Ever Tracked a White Rhino? | Londolozi Blog
• A Mormon Daughter’s Book Stirs a Storm | The New York Times
• Woo-Woo Definition & Meaning | Merriam-Webster
• The Survival Specialist | The Guardian
• Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #585
• The Integrity Cleanse DIY Workbook | Martha Beck
• I Think You’re Fat by A.J. Jacobs | Esquire
• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri | Amazon
• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare | Folger Shakespeare Library
• Stoicism vs. Hedonism: What’s the Difference? | Orion Philosophy
• The Addictive Puzzle Game That Started It All! | Tetris
• Nice Work If You Can Get It | Bewildered #49
• Calm Down, We Can Do Both! | The Gathering Room Podcast #126
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #430
• “Adulthood Is Emailing ‘Sorry for the Delayed Response!’ Back and Forth until One of You Dies.” | Marissa Miller, Twitter
• Sorry for the Delayed Response | The New Yorker
• ‘New Yorker’ Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It | NPR
• It’s All Chinese To Me? | It’s All Greek To Me
• The Significance of Oranges Around Lunar New Year, Explained | Time
• What Is Zen Buddhism and How Do You Practice It? | Lion’s Roar
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell | Amazon
• The Great British Baking Show | Netflix
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Sweet Vs. Savory | The Daily Nexus
• A Strange Place to Find Comfort | The Gathering Room Podcast #112
• The Formula for Happiness | Martha Beck
• When You Want Not to Want What You Want | The Gathering Room Podcast #99
• Compare Models | Tesla
• We Asked Leaf Blower Guys if They Know How Annoying They Are | Vice
• Andrés Segovia: The Father Of Classical Guitar (1975) | YouTube
• Cananga Odorata (Ylang-Ylang) | Wikipedia
• Why Do My Dog’s Feet Smell Like Fritos or Corn Chips? | AKC
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) | Psychology Today
• Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Deliberate Self-Harm: Systematic Review | JMIR Mental Health
• Perissodactyla | Wikipedia
• Luxury Safari Experience in South Africa | Sabi Sands Nature Reserve
• Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie | Amazon
• The Work | Byron Katie
• A Stillness within Stephen Mitchell | Los Angeles Times
• Faust: A Tragedy in Two Parts and the Urfaust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Amazon
• Language. Culture. Germany. | Goethe-Institut USA
• Goethe: The Smartest Man in History? | Mystery Scoop
• How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires… | Tim Ferriss
• What the Stroop Effect Reveals About Our Minds | Lesley University
• What is Neurodiversity? | Harvard Health
• Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight | TED Talk
• Spaghetti Tower Marshmallow Challenge | TinkerLab
• Awakening Your Magician | The Gathering Room Podcast #144
• All of Creation | Martha Beck
• Activity: Mirror Writing | Museum of Science
• Figure Study Tool | Line of Action
• Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 | The University of the Arts
• What is Internal Family Systems? | IFS Institute
• Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy | Amazon
• Richard Schwartz — IFS, Psychedelic Experiences without Drugs, and Finding Inner Peace for Our Many Parts | The Tim Ferriss Show #492
• Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness Using IFS, A Cutting-Edge Psychotherapy by Jay Earley and Karen Donnely | Amazon
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon
• A Mother Cheetah Reveals Her Tiny Cubs | Londolozi TV
• A Cat’s Best Friend | San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Stories
• The Merchant of Just Be Happy | The New York Times
• Koelle Simpson’s Equine Therapy | Oprah.com
• Capuchin Facts | Costa Rica Wildlife Guide
• The Magical Corner of Intention and Invention | The Gathering Room Podcast #155
• A Tale of a Troop of Baboons | Londolozi Blog
• Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art by Lewis Hyde | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Lydia Robinson Norton * Edward Mower Norton, Jr. * Toby Orenstein * Stella Adler * Ian McKellen * Terry Schreiber * Lee Strasberg * Sanford Meisner * Bruce Lee * Antoine de Saint-Exupéry * Václav Havel * Tennessee Williams * Bennett Miller * Adam Curtis * Jacques Audiard * Marion Cotillard * Alejandro González Iñárritu * Joseph Campbell * Friedrich Nietzsche * Oprah Winfrey * Boyd Varty * Bronwyn Varty-Laburn * Dave Varty * Shan Varty * Renias Mhlongo * Sherlock Holmes * Arthur C. Clarke * Ralph Waldo Emerson * Eddie Izzard * Alex Van Den Heever * Brigham Young * Hugh Nibley * A.J. Jacobs * Julie Schoenberg Jacobs * Dante Alighieri * Julius Caesar * William Shakespeare * Elizabeth Gilbert * Phyllis Nibley * Andrés Segovia * Molly Ferriss * Steven C. Hayes * Stephen Mitchell * Byron Katie * Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * Jill Bolte Taylor * Leonardo da Vinci * Neil Gaiman * Iain McGilchrist * Richard Schwartz * Jay Earley * Tara Brach * Lewis Hyde

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #332 “Coach George Raveling — A Legend on Sports, Business, and The Great Game of Life” and #724 “Claire Hughes Johnson — How to Take Responsibility for Your Life, Create Rules That Work, Stop Being a Victim, Set Strong Boundaries, and More.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

Please enjoy!

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform.*

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with George Raveling:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn

• The “I Have A Dream” Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. | YouTube
• Pioneering Coach George Raveling’s Surprising Connection to MLK | Sports Illustrated
• George Raveling Delivers 2016 Villanova Commencement Address | George Raveling
• Why I Collect Racist Objects | Jim Crow Museum
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Amazon
• Two Minute History: Aunt Jemima | Black&Sexy.TV
• Literacy as Freedom | Smithsonian American Art Museum
• You Are What You Read | Barnes & Noble
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Einstein: The Man, the Genius, and the Theory of Relativity by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Walter Isaacson on CRISPR, Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race | The Tim Ferriss Show #503
• “The Negro Question.” Albert Einstein’s 1946 Statement on Racism and Civil Rights by Dr. Albert Einstein | Global Research
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday | Amazon
• Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday | Amazon
• 1984 United States Men’s Olympic Basketball Team | Wikipedia
• Remembering Michael Jordan and the 1984 Olympic Trials by Sean Deveney | Sporting News

Connect with Claire Hughes Johnson:

LinkedIn | Twitter

• Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson | Amazon
• Ideas for Progress | Stripe Press
• Conscious Business: How to Build Value through Values by Fred Kofman | Amazon
• Conscious Business | Axialent
• What Is a 360 Review in the Workplace? | The Balance Careers
• Tiger Team Explained: How It Helps to Solve Critical Issues | Timeular
• Fred Kofman: Be a Player, Not a Victim | LinkedIn Speaker Series
• Five Whys Technique: Root Cause Analysis (With Examples) | Indeed
• What Is the Meaning of the Phrase “Be That as It May?” | Quora
• Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony de Mello | Amazon
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf | Amazon
• A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf | Amazon
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | Amazon
• The Passion by Jeanette Winterson | Amazon
• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson | Amazon
• Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson | Amazon
• What’s the Truth about Bloomsbury and the Jews? | The Jewish Chronicle
• ‘I Am Going Mad Again’: The Tragic Tale of Virginia Woolf’s Suicide | ATI
• John Wick | Prime Video
• Little, Big by John Crowley | Amazon
• The Neverending Story by Michael Ende | Amazon
• Complete Dune Series by Frank Herbert | Amazon
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | Amazon
• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang | Amazon
• What is Magical Realism? A Guide to the Literary Genre | Oprah Daily
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Amazon
• The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set by Cixin Liu | Amazon
• Contact: A Novel by Carl Sagan | Amazon
• Wasting Years by Not Wasting Hours | Sam Radford
• Working with Claire: An Unauthorized Guide | Claire Hughes Johnson
• The Six Levels of Craic You Can Reach | Irish Central
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People by Elad Gil | Amazon
• An Irish Goodbye | Floodlight Pictures
• What Is An Irish Goodbye, And What Makes It ‘Irish’? | Babbel Magazine
• Financial Infrastructure for the Internet | Stripe
• The Most Founder-Focused Event on Earth | Slush
• Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Change by Martin Linsky and Ronald A. Heifetz | Amazon
• Chief Operating Officer (COO): Definition, Types, and Qualifications | Investopedia
• Sophie’s Choice | Prime Video
• Six Steps for Successful Postmortem Meetings | Asana
• B2C: How Business-to-Consumer Sales Works, 5 Types and Examples | Investopedia
• Glengarry Glen Ross | Prime Video
• Time, Talent, Treasure, and Testimony: The Four Ts of Philanthropy | Equip To Thrive
• What Is Self-Awareness and How Does It Develop? | Verywell Mind
• I Was VP at Google for 10 Years. Here’s the No. 1 Skill I Looked For at Job Interviews — Few People Had It | CNBC
• Myers–Briggs Type Indicator | Wikipedia
• What is the DiSC Assessment? | DiSC Profile
• Enneagram of Personality | Wikipedia
• Insights Discovery
• Personality Tests That Predict Performance | Hogan Assessments
• Big Five Personality Test | Open-Source Psychometrics Project
• StrengthsFinder 2.0 | Gallup
• Skepticism of Astrology Isn’t Particularly Smart | Quartz
• The Skeptic’s Horoscope | Math with Bad Drawings
• Online Rorschach Inkblot Test
• Patrick Collison — CEO of Stripe | The Tim Ferriss Show #353
• Pulp Fiction | Prime Video
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• The Atlantic
• How to Work with Pushers and Pullers Effectively (Clip) | Grit Podcast #128

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Martin Luther King Jr. * Ryan Holiday * Kevin Eastman * Alex Cervasio * Walter Isaacson * Benjamin Franklin * Albert Einstein * Henry Kissinger * Abraham Lincoln * Bob Knight * Fred Kofman * Sheryl Sandberg * Jack Welch * Anthony de Mello * Jeanette Winterson * John Crowley * Robert A. Heinlein * Ted Chiang * Jorge Luis Borges * Gabriel García Márquez * Neal Stephenson * Isabel Allende * Daniel Kahneman * Amos Tversky * Urs Hölzle * Patrick Collison * Dustin Moskovitz * Elad Gil * Kevin Kelly * Peter Thiel * Mark Twain * Ronald Heifetz * Marty Linsky * Steve Jobs * Hermann Rorschach * Gregg Popovich * Winston Wolf

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #86 “General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness” and #611 “Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning $500 into $1.7M, Cage Dancing, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

Please enjoy!

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform.*

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Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#761: General Stanley McChrystal and Liv BoereeThis episode is brought to you by AG1! I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG1 further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.

Right now, you’ll get a 1-year supply of Vitamin D free with your first subscription purchase—a vital nutrient for a strong immune system and strong bones. Visit DrinkAG1.com/Tim to claim this special offer today and receive your 1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase! That’s up to a one-year supply of Vitamin D as added value when you try their delicious and comprehensive daily, foundational nutrition supplement that supports whole-body health.

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SHOW NOTES [05:57] Notes about this supercombo format. * [07:01] Enter General Stanley McChrystal. * [07:24] One meal a day. * [08:52] Daily exercise routines and their importance. * [14:04] The book most gifted. * [15:15] A major course correction at West Point. * [19:33] Vetting, selecting, and educating candidates for combat. * [21:41] “No-win” leadership roleplaying. * [25:21] Underrated military leaders. * [27:17] Audiobooks. * [29:13] What books make Stan’s reading list? * [30:29] Hopeless dilemmas and managing self-talk in high-pressure environments. * [37:09] Enter Liv Boeree. * [37:35] Youthful obsessions. * [42:04] How poker entered the picture. * [49:45] The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the start. * [55:55] Liv’s advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker. * [1:04:54] What Liv’s eight-week poker education curriculum might look like. * [1:11:31] Failure points that might discourage someone during this curriculum. * [1:13:35] Red mist, white noise, and fast math. * [1:19:37] Volcano-induced tournament participation and self-regulation. * [1:28:27] A skeptic’s experiences with the unexplainable. * [1:44:19] How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences? * [1:48:09] How to become a better skeptic. * [1:54:18] Inadequate Equilibria* and Moloch. * [1:59:14] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with General Stanley McChrystal:

McChrystal Group | Twitter

• Risk: A User’s Guide by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico | Amazon
• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell
• Breakfast, Lunch, and Winners | The Morning News
• How to Do Push-Ups: Eight Strength-Boosting Variations | Verywell Fit
• Sit-Ups vs. Crunches | Healthline
• How to Do a Plank: Proper Form, Variations, and Common Mistakes | Verywell Fit
• How to Do Flutter Kicks for a Strong Core | Real Simple
• From 0 to Five Pullups in 22 Days (Guaranteed!) | Athlean-X
• Incline Bench Press: Video Exercise Guide and Tips | Muscle and Strength
• Standing Dumbbell Curl — The Right Way | Renshaw’s Personal Training
• The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal | Rolling Stone
• Once an Eagle: A Novel by Anton Myrer | Amazon
• General Stan McChrystal: How to Succeed in Military and Civilian Life | West Point Association of Graduates Podcast
• US Army Ranger School | Fort Benning, GA
• The Kobayashi Maru “No-Win” Scenario CG Breakdown in Star Trek Lore | Resurrected Starships
• Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa by Martin Meredith | Amazon
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu | Amazon

Connect with Liv Boeree:

Website | Newsletter | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

• Win-Win with Liv Boeree Podcast
• Raising for Effective Giving
• Master of Puppets by Metallica | Amazon Music
• Liv Boeree: The “Iron Maiden” of the Poker World | Metal Insider
• Iron Maiden
• Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera | Amazon Music
• Nu Metal | Wikipedia
• Dimmu Borgir
• Burzum
• Ultimate Poker Showdown Bumper | YouTube
• Explaining “Rebuy” in Poker | Liveabout.com
• How to Spot a Liar, According to a Pro Poker Player | Inc.com
• The All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks, & Friedberg
• How to Calculate Pot Odds in Poker | Upswing Poker
• PioSOLVER
• Poker Terms: Rainbow | PokerNews
• A Beginner’s Guide to Game Theory Optimal (GTO) Poker | 888 Poker
• The Six Types of Tilt | Poker Stars Learn
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Amazon
• Of Two Minds: How Fast and Slow Thinking Shape Perception and Choice | Scientific American
• Liv Boeree Wins the 2010 EPT Sanremo | PokerStars
• Eyjafjallajökull 2010: How Icelandic Volcano Eruption Closed European Skies | NCAS
• Surrender by The Chemical Brothers | Amazon Music
• The Sixth Sense | Prime Video
• Meniere’s Disease Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic
• Burning Man | Liv Boeree
• Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #585
• Quantum Spookiness Spans the Canary Islands | Scientific American
• Is Human Consciousness Creating Reality? | Big Think
• Lynne Kelly on Memory Palaces, Ancient and Modern | Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast #60
• Understanding Confidence Intervals | Scribbr
• Studying Studies | Peter Attia
• The Magic and Power of Placebo | The Tim Ferriss Show #194
• Suggestible You: The Curious Science of Your Brain’s Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal by Erik Vance | Amazon
• Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. | WIRED
• List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics | The Decision Lab
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger | Amazon
• The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef | Amazon
• LessWrong
• Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Nash Equilibrium | Investopedia
• Moloch: The Beauty Wars | Liv Boeree

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Anton Myrer * Annie McChrystal * Ulysses S. Grant * William Moffett * Cecil Rhodes * George Washington * Sun Tzu * Philip H. Anselmo * Jason Calacanis * Phil Gordon * Elaine Cross * Molly Ferriss * Matt Ginsberg * Achilles * Daniel Kahneman * Igor Kurganov * Melanie Weisner * Donald Hoffman * Dr. Michio Kaku * Albert Einstein * Niels Bohr * Sean Carroll * Peter Attia * Erik Vance * Charlie Munger * Julia Galef * Eliezer Yudkowsky * Moloch

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #98 “The ‘Wizard’ of Hollywood, Robert Rodriguez” and #358 “Susan Cain — How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Creativity.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [06:08] Notes about this supercombo format. * [07:12] Enter Robert Rodriguez. * [07:39] Journaling as a crucial component of personal and professional life. * [15:01] Keeping crew morale high during a project. * [16:16] The magic that happens when creativity truly clicks. * [20:47] How applied creativity dissolves the separation between work and play. * [23:01] The legendary financing of El Mariachi. * [25:56] From Bedhead to an unexpected big break. * [30:57] Overcoming budgetary and technological constraints. * [34:54] Maintaining momentum when lack of resources is no longer a creative driver. * [39:33] Enter Susan Cain.* * [40:04] What initiated Susan’s lifelong fear of public speaking? * [43:09] How Susan’s TED Talk opportunity arose, and its initial reception. * [44:06] Introvert strategies for group dinners. * [46:45] Reflecting on my sixth-grade self. * [47:58] How Susan overcame her fear of public speaking. * [50:35] Even seasoned speakers get nervous before TED Talks. * [52:15] Susan’s progression to becoming a global public speaker. * [54:08] Common traits of effective teachers and coaches. * [55:45] Susan’s pre-speaking engagement rituals. * [57:16] Public speaking as a skill multiplier. * [57:57] How Toastmasters and chihuahuas helped me overcome speaking fears. * [1:00:50] Preparation for my own TED Talk. * [1:02:21] Adam Grant’s crucial pre-TED assistance. * [1:04:00] The importance of rehearsing before live audiences. * [1:04:49] My current level of nervousness before public speaking. * [1:07:36] Time pressure in TED Talks. * [1:08:51] Public speaking as a force multiplier and therapy. * [1:11:32] Susan’s techniques for relieving worry. * [1:12:57] Susan’s transition from law to writing. * [1:16:07] Necessity vs. creativity in making a living. * [1:18:10] Susan’s timeline and process for writing her first book. * [1:20:20] Susan’s current writing process. * [1:21:05] Susan’s note-taking and organization. * [1:24:16] Preferences for writing software. * [1:26:19] Susan’s enjoyment of the writing process. * [1:27:05] Susan’s preferred writing time. * [1:28:07] Susan’s writing schedule and break routine. * [1:29:49] Night vs. morning writing and procrastination tactics. * [1:31:51] Recommended books and resources on writing. * [1:35:26] Serendipitous meetings that enabled first books. * [1:40:16] Distinguishing introversion from shyness. * [1:44:02] Books Susan frequently gifts. * [1:45:09] My first meeting with Sam Harris. * [1:47:37] Experiences with loving-kindness meditation. * [1:49:24] Comparative effects of different meditation types. * [1:55:35] Susan’s billboard. * [1:56:45] Advice for deep connection with others. * [1:57:33] Susan’s love for bittersweet music. * [1:59:44] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Robert Rodriguez:

Twitter | Instagram

• El Rey Network
• Desperado | Prime Video
• From Dusk Till Dawn | Prime Video
• Spy Kids | Prime Video
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Prime Video
• Frank Miller’s Sin City | Prime Video
• Machete | Prime Video
• We Can Be Heroes | Netflix
• El Mariachi | Prime Video
• PowerBook 170 Specs | Every Mac
• Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez | Amazon
• Microsoft Word | Microsoft 365
• Spider-Man | Prime Video
• Avatar | Prime Video
• The Power of Competition | XPRIZE Foundation
• The Art of Sebastian Krüger
• How to Master Creativity and Uncover Your Creative Genius | James Clear
• The Director’s Chair: Michael Mann (Trailer) | El Rey Network
• Manhunter | Prime Video
• Back to the Future | Prime Video
• Robert Rodriguez’s $7,000 El Mariachi Is Still One of His Best Films | Collider
• A Former Lab Rat’s Review of Robert Rodriguez’s Drug-Study Horror Movie ‘Red 11’ | Texas Monthly
• Lipitor | Viatris
• Bedhead (1991) | The Robert Rodriguez Vault
• Sundance ‘93 Flashback: El Mariachi Endures as a Low Budget Masterpiece | Moviejawn
• The Evolution of Cinema | So The Theory Goes
• Four Rooms | Prime Video
• The Power of Limits to Enhance Creativity | Artists Network
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Amazon

Connect with Susan Cain:

Newsletter | Quiet Life Community | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in A World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Amazon
• Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain | Amazon
• Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts | TED 2012
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare | Amazon
• Childhood Trauma and the Brain | Blue Knot Foundation
• ilili Restaurant, NYC
• Toastmasters
• Public Speaking Center of NY
• South by Southwest (SXSW)
• Tim Ferriss’ TED Talks
• Scrivener | Literature & Latte
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• When Is the Best Time of Day to Write? | Author Unlimited
• The Art of Nonfiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand | Amazon
• Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee | Amazon
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott | Amazon
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Are You Shy, Introverted, Both, or Neither (and Why Does It Matter)? | Quiet Revolution
• Nobody’s Looking at You: Eileen Fisher and the Art of Understatement | The New Yorker
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris | Amazon
• The Waking Up App
• Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time | Mindful
• Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection by Haemin Sunim and Lisk Feng | Amazon
• Metta Institute
• Joy on Demand: The Art of Discovering the Happiness Within by Chade-Meng Tan | Amazon
• Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Getting Started with Mindfulness | Mindful
• An Insight Meditation Center | Spirit Rock
• Why Sad Songs Say So Much | Quiet Revolution

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Cecilio and Rebecca Rodríguez * Francis Ford Coppola * Jim Cameron * Peter Diamandis * Sebastian Krüger * Michael Mann * Dorothy Ann Willis Richards * Robert Newman * Antonio Banderas * Buster Keaton * Jack Ma * Quentin Tarantino * Bill Gates * Chris Anderson * Captain America * The Punisher * Charles diCagno * Ken Cain * Jim Fyfe * Warren Buffett * Dale Carnegie * Hugh Forrest * Adam Grant * Mike Tyson * Dean Martin * Cus D’Amato * J.K. Rowling * Soman Chainani * Robert Rodriguez * Ayn Rand * John McPhee * Anne Lamott * Richard Pine * Leo Tolstoy * Jillian Manus * Stephen Hanselman * Eileen Fisher * Sam Harris * Achilles * Haemin Sunim * Sharon Salzberg * Jack Kornfield * Chade-Meng Tan * Larry David * E.M. Forster

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #691 “Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson — How Traders Make Billions in The New Age of Crisis, Defending Against Silent Risks, Personal Independence, Skepticism Where It (Really) Counts, The Bishop and The Economist, and Much More” and #639 “Todd McFarlane, Legendary Comic Book Artist — How to Make Iconic Art, Reinvent Spider-Man, Live Life on Your Own Terms, and Meet Every Deadline.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [04:51] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:54] Enter Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Scott Patterson. * [06:32] The joy of writing a preemptive resignation letter. * [07:13] Developing resilience against criticism. * [10:04] Nassim: contrarian, or simply independent? * [12:27] Jiving with skeptical turkeys. * [17:21] Persisting through the polycrisis. * [19:18] Introducing the precautionary principle. * [21:37] Nassim’s preferred legacy. * [23:50] Precautionary principle 101. * [25:14] Fat tails, thin tails, the COVID vaccine, and GMOs. * [32:51] Enter Todd McFarlane. * [33:21] Baseball. * [38:46] Rejection letters. * [42:38] Compelling storytelling and meeting deadlines. * [45:46] Deadlines pre-Internet vs. deadlines today. * [48:36] How industry status quo led to the founding of Image Comic Books. * [1:00:30] The Comics Code and the last straw. * [1:06:52] The Marvel Dream Team exodus. * [1:25:13] How is Todd’s camel bladder a competitive advantage? * [1:31:02] Career bouncing and double-shifting as a penciler and inker. * [1:49:08] The happy accident of Venom. * [1:55:46] De-Rockwelling the company icon and inventing “spaghetti webbing.” * [2:03:31] Bucking the status quo to become* the status quo. * [2:07:13] Parting thoughts and a promise for round two.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Nassim Nicholas Taleb:

Website | Twitter

Connect with Scott Patterson:

Website | Twitter

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis by Scott Patterson | Amazon
• Nassim Taleb: My Rules for Life | The Guardian
• Eight Terrific Tactics for Dealing with Haters, According to Tim Ferriss | Maxim
• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Ethics | 25iq
• Taleb-Asness Black Swan Spat Is a Teaching Moment | Yahoo!
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Amazon
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Remembrance of Joseph Heller in The New Yorker | Scripting News
• What Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started | Daily Stoic
• The Opiates of the Middle Classes by Nassim Taleb | Edge
• Skepticism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• We’re in a ‘Polycrisis’ — A Historian Explains What That Means | World Economic Forum
• Precautionary Principle | Wikipedia
• The Precautionary Principle | New England Complex Systems Institute
• How Did George Soros Break the Bank of England? | Investopedia
• The Precautionary Principle Explained by Nassim Taleb | Atlas Geographica
• Is Nassim Taleb Right About Monsanto Company and GMOs? | The Motley Fool
• Mediocristan and Extremistan: The Two Categories of Random Events | Coffee and Junk
• Fat Tails | American Scientist
• Where Do Thin Tails Come From? by Nassim N. Taleb | arXiv: Risk Management
• Universa Investments LP
• On Fox News, Dr. Phil Said 360,000 Americans Die in Swimming Pools Every Year. He’s Wrong by Magnitudes. | Poynter
• RE: Drowning in Swimming Pools | Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Twitter
• Mini Lecture 12: How to Look at the Risks of COVID Vaccines | N.N. Taleb’s Probability Moocs

Connect with Todd McFarlane:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Spawn | Image Comics
• The Amazing Spider-Man | Marvel
• Todd McFarlane’s Spawn | HBO
• Spawn | Prime Video
• Spawn #301 | Image Comics
• Incredible Hulk #340 | Marvel
• Legendary Artist Todd McFarlane Talks Baseball and Toys | SI Kids
• A Selection from 350 Rejection Letters | Todd McFarlane, Facebook
• Frank Miller Batman Reading Order | Comic Book Herald
• 300 by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley | Amazon
• 300 | Prime Video
• Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye by Frank Miller | Amazon
• Sin City – Recut, Extended, Unrated | Prime Video
• How Frank Miller Brought Daredevil Out of the Shadows and Into Comic-Book History | Mashable
• Batman/Spawn: DC Comics Crossover Coming in December 2022! | Bloody Disgusting
• Marvel, Jack Kirby Estate Settlement Brings End to High-Stakes Battle | The Hollywood Reporter
• Todd McFarlane: Comics | Marvel
• Todd McFarlane and His Ever-Increasing Guinness Record | Comics Beat
• Comics Code History: The Seal of Approval | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund
• The Atlas Era: Before Marvel Became Marvel | Marvel
• Comics Bogeyman: A Look Back At ‘Seduction of the Innocent’ | Comics Alliance
• Comic History: Bullseye Kills Elektra (Daredevil #181) │ RNS Entertainment
• Why Did Todd McFarlane Leave Marvel Comics? | Comic Book Legends Revealed #482
• Andre Agassi: “Image Is Everything,” Canon (1990) | YouTube
• 1992 United States Men’s Olympic Basketball Team | Wikipedia
• Coyote 1-16 | Steve Englehart
• Infinity, Inc. | Wikipedia
• The Rejected Todd McFarlane Version of a G.I. Joe Classic | CBR
• Todd McFarlane Draws Batman: Year Two — Batman’s Got a Gun! | Cartoonist Kayfabe
• Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 300 | Marvel Database
• Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 320 | Marvel Database
• Venom Through History: A Look at the Origins and Past Iterations of the Lethal Protector | Los Angeles Times
• Comic Legends: The Secret Origin of Spider-Man’s Spaghetti Webbing! | CBR
• Historical Components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average | Wikipedia
• 5 Iconic Airlines That No Longer Exist | Investopedia
• Kmart | Wikipedia

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Charlie Munger * Mark Spitznagel * Joseph Heller * Kurt Vonnegut * Seneca the Younger * Pierre Daniel Huet * Joseph Justus Scaliger * Pierre Bayle * David Hume * al-Ghazali * Baruch Spinoza * Adam Tooze * George Soros * Karl Popper * Warren Buffett * Elon Musk * Rupert Read * Phil McGraw * Spawn * Spider-Man * Venom * Grey Hulk * Wolverine * Frank Miller * Batman * Daredevil * Jim Lee * Jack Kirby * Iron Man * Stan Lee * Fredric Wertham * Joseph McCarthy * Deadpool * Cable * Juggernaut * Bullseye * Elektra * Rob Liefeld * Erik Larsen * Andre Agassi * Jim Valentino * Terry Stewart * Earvin Magic Johnson * Larry Bird * Whilce Portacio * Marc Silvestri * Bob McFarlane * Benito Mussolini * Tom DeFalco * Steve Englehart * Coyote * Don Newton * G.I. Joe * Larry Hama * Dick Giordano * James Gordon * Dennis O’Neil * Jim Salicrup * Bob Harras * David Michelinie * Jim Shooter * Norman Rockwell * Charlie Brown * Eddie Vedder

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #124 “Jamie Foxx on Workout Routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood Stories” and #514 “Jacqueline Novogratz on Building Acumen, How to (Actually) Change the World, Speaking Your Truth, and the Incredible Power of ‘Dumb’ Questions“

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [06:50] Notes about this supercombo format. * [07:53] Enter Jamie Foxx. * [08:19] When Jamie met Kanye West. * [10:58] Why Jamie considers his studio magical. * [13:32] When Jamie met Ed Sheeran. * [15:00] What’s on the other side of fear? * [16:53] Making impressions. * [22:15] How Eric Marlon Bishop became Jamie Foxx. * [24:49] Overcoming fear at open mics. * [26:12] Could Prince or Michael Jackson find a career break in today’s “Age of Memes?” * [27:49] How Jamie learned to read the room. * [33:27] Why do some comedians lose the ability to make people laugh? * [39:04] Enter Jacqueline Novogratz.* * [39:37] Jacqueline’s background and siblings’ accomplishments. * [42:06] Jacqueline’s journey into social impact investing. * [45:15] An early banking career and reputation for asking tough questions. * [48:36] A tendency to champion underdogs. * [53:18] From banker to disruptor. * [1:00:04] Jacqueline’s first opportunity in her new path. * [1:05:28] Failures, small wins, and perseverance. * [1:09:21] Jacqueline’s first real win in Rwanda. * [1:13:37] The path between Rwanda and founding Acumen. * [1:16:06] Jacqueline’s reasons for applying to Stanford Business School. * [1:18:10] How the Rwanda genocide redefined poverty for Jacqueline. * [1:20:42] Lessons Jacqueline learned about human nature from the genocide. * [1:26:25] Acumen’s three main functions and naming process. * [1:29:12] The quantification of impact investment through Lean Data. * [1:37:28] Alternative names for Acumen that got left on the cutting room floor. * [1:40:43] The concept of moral imagination. * [1:44:55] An early win at Acumen. * [1:50:43] Advice for young people aspiring to create positive change. * [1:53:20] The benefits of committing to something larger than oneself. * [1:56:10] Characteristics of a good mentor. * [1:59:36] Book recommendations. * [2:02:48] Advice for impact investors at various levels. * [2:09:20] Next steps for investors to start making a difference. * [2:14:00] Jacqueline’s authenticity. * [2:17:07] A taste of potential topics for a future round two. * [2:20:55] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Jamie Foxx:

Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Shoot Your Shot | BSB Whiskey
• Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro Set For Action Movie ‘Tin Soldier’ | Deadline
• In Back in Action, Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz Are Parents with a Big Secret | Netflix
• Slow Jamz (Feat. Kanye West and Jamie Foxx) by Twista | Amazon Music
• Blame It (Feat. T-Pain) by Jamie Foxx | Amazon Music
• Ed Sheeran Slept on Jamie Foxx’s Couch for Six Weeks | The Graham Norton Show
• Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss
• In Living Color | Wikipedia

Connect with Jacqueline Novogratz:

LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram

• Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World by Jacqueline Novogratz | Amazon
• The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz | Amazon
• Changing the Way the World Tackles Poverty | Acumen
• The World’s School for Social Change | Acumen Academy
• The Path of Moral Leadership | Acumen Academy
• 60 Decibels
• The University of Virginia
• Chase Online
• How Swiss Bank Accounts Work | The Balance
• The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut by Nigel Barley | Amazon
• Amplifying the Power of the Poor | Grameen Foundation
• World Still Learning from Ethiopia Famine | BBC News
• Women’s Financial Inclusion | Women’s World Banking
• Blue by Joni Mitchell | Amazon Music
• Abidjan City: The Most Developed City in West Africa | Safari Talk TV
• Giri Giri: A Magical Talisman Protecting Against Guns, Knives, Vampires, etc. | The Blog of Dimi
• Rwanda Chronology | Frontline
• Rwanda’s History Stained by Massive Human Rights Violations, but Rule of Law System Painstakingly Constructed to Tackle Forces Seeking to Sow Division, Committee Told | United Nations
• A History of the Napoleonic Code (Code Napoléon) | ThoughtCo.
• It Takes a Village to Determine the Origins of an African Proverb | Goats and Soda
• Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Gordon Gekko: “Greed Is Good” | Wall Street
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Duterimbere
• Rwanda Genocide: 100 Days of Slaughter | BBC News
• Hutu Power | Wikipedia
• Women Leaders in the Rwandan Genocide: When Women Choose To Kill | UNIversitas
• Derren Brown: The Push | Netflix
• Kristallnacht: Why So Many Stood by While Jews Were Killed | Time
• Impact Investing | Investopedia
• Acumen Launches 60 Decibels to Make Lean Data an Impact Measurement Standard for Impact Investing | Acumen
• Financial Planning & Investment Management | BlackRock
• Solar Home Systems Outdoor & Solar Lanterns | d.light
• Stories that Matter: d.light’s Path to Illuminating 100 Million Lives | Acumen
• White Nationalists Use Tiki Torches to Light Up Charlottesville March | CNN
• Initiatives to Counter Malaria | Sumitomo Chemical
• Vice President of Tanzania Dedicates Olyset Net Factory in Arusha | Sumitomo Chemical
• Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria | The Global Fund
• Cal Newport: “Follow Your Passion” Is Bad Advice | 99U
• Building Girls of Courage, Confidence, and Character | Girl Scouts
• The World’s Largest Psychedelic Research Center | The Tim Ferriss Show #385
• Mike Novogratz on Investing, Bitcoin, Ayahuasca, and Running Through The Sahara Desert | The Tim Ferriss Show #451
• “The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation.” -Henry David Thoreau | Goodreads
• Puqun Li: Zen K?ans: Unsolvable Enigmas Designed to Break Your Brain | TED-Ed
• Power: For the People | Common Cause
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison | Amazon
• Killings by Police Declined After Black Lives Matter Protests | Scientific American
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Amazon
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry | Amazon
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl | Amazon
• The Intrapreneur | Investopedia

• 1 Meal Subscription in L.A. | Everytable

• Everytable Opens Compton Store | Acumen
• Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
• Galaxy Digital
• My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Breyon Prescott * Kanye West * Halle Berry * Natasha Bedingfield * Kelly Rowland * The Game * Ed Sheeran * Stevie Wonder * Miranda Lambert * Babyface * Annalise Bishop * Corinne Foxx * Mark Twain * Estelle Marie Talley * Johnny Carson * David Brenner * Steve Allen * David Letterman * Franklyn Ajaye * Jay Leno * Richard Pryor * Rich Little * Jimmy Carter * Billy Carter * Richard Nixon * Ronald Reagan * Doc Rivers * Kermit the Frog * Sammy Davis, Jr. * LeBron James * Prince * Michael Jackson * Bill Cosby * Latimore * Kevin Hart * Eddie Murphy * Chris Rock * Jim Carrey * Chris Tucker * Joe Piscopo * The Novogratzes * Robert Novogratz * Mike Novogratz * Linda Ronstadt * Tony Terracciano * Muhammad Yunus * Joni Mitchell * Mike Milken * Gordon Gekko * John Gardner * Agnes Ntamabyariro * Derren Brown * Tillie Olsen * Bryan Stevenson * Jawad Aslam * Anuj Shah * Jim Collins * Henry David Thoreau * Lyndon B. Johnson * Ralph Ellison * Chinua Achebe * Rohinton Mistry * Viktor Frankl * Sam Polk * Seth Godin * Debbie Millman

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #474 “Matthew McConaughey — The Power of ‘No, Thank You,’ Key Life Lessons, 30+ Years of Diary Notes, and The Art of Catching Greenlights” and #327 “Aisha Tyler — How to Use Pain, Comedy, and Practice for Creativity.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [04:58] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:51] Enter Matthew McConaughey. * [06:19] The words forbidden in Matthew’s house growing up. * [08:58] The book that changed the course of Matthew’s life. * [17:27] Matthew’s 10 goals in life (circa 1992). * [22:20] Why take more risks? * [26:04] The evolving purpose of keeping a diary. * [29:48] The art of running downhill. * [33:56] Learning to say “No” to rom-com typecasting. * [47:50] Enter Aisha Tyler. * [48:19] Aisha’s role in The Tim Ferriss Show‘s existence. * [49:43] Aisha’s trademark podcast question. * [51:06] Aisha’s unorthodox childhood and family relationships. * [52:06] How did Aisha answer the questions “Whose day is it?” and “What are you going to do?” every morning? * [55:34] From where does Aisha get her general sense of optimism? * [57:25] Following father’s advice and views on regret. * [59:22] Free-range parenting vs. modern overprotection. * [1:03:33] Having a bad day? You’re not special! * [1:05:27] Young Aisha’s career aspirations. * [1:06:52] Why was Aisha miserable at what she thought was her dream job? * [1:08:51] Why did Aisha pick standup comedy to break into show business? * [1:10:08] What it was like to keep a day job and do standup comedy as a hobby. * [1:11:50] Commuting for comedy in San Francisco. * [1:14:03] What made the comedy club bubble of the ’80s burst? * [1:18:11] How did Aisha practice to get better at standup? * [1:19:01] A memorable set Aisha bombed and the gift it gave her. * [1:22:22] Dealing with hecklers Bill Burr and Kenny Moore style. * [1:28:20] Aisha shares some of her own heckler stories. * [1:32:31] Aisha’s academic approach to the math of comedy. * [1:34:43] What’s the Rule of Threes? * [1:35:36] Gauging comic evolution. * [1:36:46] Comedians compared to other artists. * [1:38:04] Changing success metrics and creative traps. * [1:40:41] How fear-based people-pleasing affects creativity. * [1:43:52] If one likes big butts, one cannot lie — even if it might tick someone off. * [1:46:03] Sometimes constructive feedback does make me change my mind. * [1:46:33] Pursuing authentic, meaningful work. * [1:48:32] Comedy’s core beyond humor. * [1:49:04] Expecting failures in creative beginnings. * [1:49:52] Why it doesn’t pay to emulate a master of a craft in their own field. * [1:51:51] Aisha’s transition to filmmaking. * [1:54:47] Aisha believes in personal aggression. * [1:55:28] How Aisha piggybacked resources for her first music video. * [1:56:30] Learning filmmaking through short projects. * [1:58:03] What lessons did Aisha learn from these projects? * [1:59:06] How visiting the sets of Penny Dreadful and Vikings in Ireland led to making AXIS. * [2:00:52] Financing the Ireland trip. * [2:02:35] The email Aisha sent to visit the set of Vikings. * [2:03:18] The impact of fan appreciation. * [2:04:50] Budweiser’s “Whassup” campaign origin. * [2:05:38] Why Aisha made AXIS. * [2:07:06] Resources for aspiring screenwriters and tech investors. * [2:08:06] What is AXIS, and did anyone try to talk Aisha out of making it? * [2:09:53] AXIS* production experience and methods. * [2:12:00] The magic, intensity, and clarity of operating on an aggressive deadline. * [2:15:00] Aisha’s current fears and goals. * [2:16:33] One of Aisha’s current struggles. * [2:17:24] “If art imitates life, in order to create art, you have to have a life.” * [2:18:33] As a workaholic, how does Aisha manage to live a life that influences her art? * [2:20:58] How would Aisha’s life be different if she didn’t have exercise as an element? * [2:22:47] What equipment does Aisha use to work out? * [2:23:36] What does a prototypical workout look like for Aisha? * [2:23:53] How does Aisha take her glutathione, and what does it help with? * [2:26:40] Morning routine and exercise timing. * [2:27:40] Aisha works out at home to save transit time. What does she watch when she rows? * [2:29:39] Does Aisha make New Year’s resolutions? * [2:32:17] Aisha likens her first (unwatchable and destroyed) short film to the standup set she bombed. * [2:34:58] When has Aisha been extremely proud of herself? * [2:37:46] How confidence transfers across projects. * [2:39:46] To grow from failure, you have to be aggressive. * [2:40:24] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Matthew McConaughey:

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• The J’s for Just, the K’s for Keep | Just Keep Livin’ Foundation
• Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey | Amazon
• Just Because by Matthew McConaughey | Amazon
• Dazed and Confused | Prime Video
• Dallas Buyers Club | Prime Video
• Interstellar | Prime Video
• True Detective: Season 1 | Prime Video
• Matthew McConaughey and the Art of Livin’ | Vanity Fair
• Matthew McConaughey Reveals The Three Things His Kids Aren’t Allowed To Say | HuffPost
• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino | Amazon
• Truth, Courage, Faith, and Power | Delta Tau Delta
• 10 Good Reasons to Keep a Journal | Psychology Today
• A Time To Kill | Prime Video
• Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real: Here’s How to Deal With It | Time
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday | Amazon
• Matthew McConaughey: My Baby Will Be a Surfer Dude, Too | People
• Hollywood Tried Really Hard to Keep Matthew McConaughey in Rom-Coms | CinemaBlend
• Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
• Killer Joe | Prime Video
• The Paperboy | Prime Video
• Mud | Prime Video
• Magic Mike | Prime Video
• Bernie | Prime Video

Connect with Aisha Tyler:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Vimeo

• Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation by Aisha Tyler | Amazon
• Organic Cocktails by Aisha Tyler + James Kim | Losophē
• AXIS | Prime Video
• Criminal Minds | Prime Video
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? | CW
• Archer | Prime Video
• The Talk | CBS
• Friends | Prime Video
• The Best Film, Food, and Drink since 1997 | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
• Halo Reach | Amazon
• Gears of War 3 | Amazon
• Watch Dogs | Amazon
• Tim Ferriss: Professional Masochist | Girl On Guy
• Hanna | Prime Video
• Inflatable Sumo Costume | Amazon
• J. Eugene McAteer School of the Arts | California School Directory
• Be Extraordinary | Dartmouth College
• Glee | Prime Video
• Ha!: TV Comedy Network | Wikipedia
• Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip | Prime Video
• Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (SFUSD)
• Aisha Tyler at Tempe Improv: Couples / F**k Valentine’s Day | YouTube
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell | Amazon
• Fubar’s Comedy Club (Closed) | Yelp
• The Neighborhood Comedy Club for the Entire Bay Area | Rooster T. Feathers
• BrainWash, 28-Year-Old Laundromat, Cafe, and Comedy Hub, Has Closed | Eater SF
• Bill Burr — The Comedian’s Comedian | The Tim Ferriss Show #265
• Voyage to the Blue Planet | Weezer
• Get Updates on New Shows, New Music, and More | Nickelback
• Bill Burr: The Philadelphia Incident | YouTube
• Kenny Moore Smacks A Heckler In The Head With His Guitar | YouTube
• Welcome! | Punch Line SF
• Rudy | Prime Video
• Out of Sight | Prime Video
• The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling | Prime Video
• The Stepford Wives (1975) | Amazon
• I Have a Disease Called Nalgofilia | Tim Ferriss, Instagram
• 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly | The Technium
• Def Comedy Jam | Prime Video
• Die Hard | Prime Video
• Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior | Prime Video
• The Terminator | Prime Video
• Talk Soup: Hal Sparks, John Henson, Aisha Tyler on The Soup Legacy | Entertainment Weekly
• The Wire | Prime Video
• No Ass At All by Aisha Tyler | RLJE Films
• New Album Out Now | Silversun Pickups
• Be In the Know | Clutch
• Star Wars: A New Hope | Prime Video
• Penny Dreadful | Prime Video
• Vikings | Prime Video
• Things to Do, Places to See, and Events | Galway Tourism
• True: The Origin of “Whassup” | YouTube
• Where Filmmakers and Writers Meet | The Black List
• Avenging Angel | Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
• AXIS by Aisha Tyler | Kickstarter
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• What About Bob? | Prime Video
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• Turning Slackers Into Workaholics | Wired
• Rowing Machine Model D | Concept2
• Suspension Weight Training | TRX
• The Pistol | CrossFit
• Lypo-Spheric Glutathione | Amazon
• Gut Health for the Good Life | Better Booch Organic Kombucha
• Lifeaid Vitality Blend | Amazon
• The Walking Dead | Prime Video
• Fear the Walking Dead | Prime Video
• The Magicians | Prime Video
• The X-Files | Prime Video
• The Handmaid’s Tale | Prime Video
• Deutschland83 | Prime Video
• Jaws | Prime Video
• The Leading B2B Ecommerce Platform for Global Trade | Alibaba
• Jodorowsky’s Dune | Prime Video
• Complete Dune Series by Frank Herbert | Amazon
• Aliens | Prime Video

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Jim McConaughey * Kay McConaughey * Og Mandino * S.R. Bindler * Monnie Wills * Richard Linklater * Don Phillips * Jerry Harris * Hugh Grant * Jim Toth * Camila McConaughey * William Friedkin * Lee Daniels * Jeff Nichols * Steven Soderbergh * Jean-Marc Vallée * Brandon Stanton * Debbie Millman * Adam Robinson * Lana Kane * James Tyler * Robin Gregory * Feri Tyler * Redd Foxx * Lenny Bruce * Bill Hicks * Richard Pryor * Marc Maron * Janeane Garofalo * Brian Posehn * Malcolm Gladwell * Sam Kinison * Andrew Dice Clay * Bill Burr * Kenny Moore * Usain Bolt * Garry Shandling * Kevin Kelly * Christopher Nolan * Wes Anderson * John McPhee * Leo Tolstoy * John Logan * Franklin Leonard * Naval Ravikant * Ryan Gosling * Richard Dreyfuss * Jack Canfield * Amanda Palmer * Neil Gaiman * Jean-Paul Sartre * Kevin Rose

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #522 “Anne Lamott on Taming Your Inner Critic, Finding Grace, and Prayer” and #148: “Josh Waitzkin, The Prodigy Returns.”

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

Please enjoy!

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform***.

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SHOW NOTES [04:49] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:51] Enter Anne Lamott. * [06:21] What is it about Bird by Bird that has affected so many people so deeply? * [07:18] Where the title of Bird by Bird originated. * [09:40] How Neal Allen helps people tame (but not discard) their inner critic. * [10:45] Who controls the dial when you’re tuned in to KFKD radio? * [11:51] How Anne recommends I pursue my fiction writing aspirations. * [12:37] The pros and cons of Anne’s upbringing. * [19:08] What does being “spiritually fit” mean to Anne? * [24:40] How radical self-care became an imperative for Anne. * [32:25] The dark night that turned Anne’s son Sam’s life around. * [38:10] Enter Josh Waitzkin. * [38:43] On Dreaming Yourself Awake* by B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel. * [39:58] Casual exercise. * [40:52] Josh’s terrifying experience with the Wim Hof method. * [45:52] How Josh uses “flow” as therapy. * [48:19] Initiating a flow state. * [50:45] Cognitive biases and armchair professors. * [55:07] Developing high-level sensitivity and listening to your senses. * [57:53] Strategies for on-boarding newcomers to mindfulness training. * [1:02:40] Paddlesurfers in peril. * [1:03:36] Embracing the funk. * [1:06:03] On parenting. * [1:15:07] Fixed perspectives and growth mindsets. * [1:17:34] On training somatic sensitivity. * [1:22:06] On mitigating the dangers of a fixed identity. * [1:24:32] Marcelo Garcia and the principle of cultivating quality as a way of life. * [1:30:19] Quality and presence in parenthood. * [1:33:42] The fire-walking process. * [1:40:11] Translating techniques learned from martial arts to less obvious activities (like investing). * [1:42:19] Building slack into the system. * [1:46:17] Scarcity in the learning process. * [1:54:27] Josh’s daily journaling process. * [1:56:25] Thematic interconnectedness in the context of education. * [2:04:08] The Art of Learning Project. * [2:05:59] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Anne Lamott:

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott | Amazon
• Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year by Anne Lamott | Amazon
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott | Amazon
• Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott | Amazon
• 13 Writing Tips from Beloved Teacher Anne Lamott | Ideas.TED.com
• Bird by Bird with Anne | Prime Video
• Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You by Neal Allen | Amazon
• 39 Writing Tips from Neal Allen | Shapes of Truth
• Anne Lamott: 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing | TED 2017
• Reaganomics | Investopedia
• Me, the Overly Sensitive Child by Anne Lamott | Salon
• The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross | Poetry Foundation
• Psalm 23 KJV | Bible Gateway
• Gary Busey on FEAR | I’m with Busey
• How Anne Lamott Got Sober | Big Think
• The Farbers Meet The Coneheads | SNL
• Three Small Poems by Karle Wilson Baker | Poetry Nook
• “Help Is the Sunny Side of Control.” —Anne Lamott | TED Talks, Twitter
• How to Human Podcast

Connect with Josh Waitzkin:

Website | The Art of Learning Project

• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin | Amazon
• Josh Waitzkin Tai Chi Push Hands Competition Videos | Content Galaxy
• Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin (Book) | Amazon
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (Film) | Prime Video
• Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation by B. Alan Wallace and Brian Hodel | Amazon
• Gibbon Slackrack Kit with Slackline (10-Feet) | Amazon
• Kettlebells | Amazon
• INDO BOARD | Amazon
• Fun Facts about Triceratops | Dinosaur World Live
• BOSU Professional NexGen 65CM Balance Trainer | Amazon
• You Are Stronger Than You Think You Are | Wim Hof Method
• “The Iceman,” Wim Hof | The Tim Ferriss Show #102
• Grandmaster Maurice Ashley Plays NYC Trash-Talker | The Tim Ferriss Experiment
• What Is Flow State? Definition, Benefits, and Tips | Flow Research Collective
• Robert Pirsig and Philosophology | Meaningful Participation
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig | Amazon
• Ratatouille | Prime Video
• List of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics | The Decision Lab
• The Sunk Cost Fallacy | The Decision Lab
• How Cognitive Biases Influence the Way You Think and Act | Verywell Mind
• Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael Mauboussin | Amazon
• Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201
• Paddle Woo Podcast and Blue Zone Blog | Blue Zone SUP
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck | Amazon
• What is Growth Mindset? | Mindset Works
• The Relationship Between Mental and Somatic Practices and Wisdom | PLoS One
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• Fighting a BJJ World Champion After Only Five Days of Training | The Tim Ferriss Experiment
• Tim Ferriss Has a Favorite Quote from a Greek Philosopher | Business Insider
• Don’t Let the Market Turn You into a Pavlovian Investor | Elliott Wave Trader
• Benefits of Journaling and Tips for Getting Started | Healthline

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Sam Lamott * Tony Soprano * Steve and John Lamott * Kenneth Lamott * Dorothy Lamott * E.L. Doctorow * Neal Allen * Ronald Reagan * St. John the Divine * Sam Lamott * Wim Hof * Robert M. Pirsig * Remy * Anton Ego * Michael J. Mauboussin * Erik Antonson * Carol Dweck * Cato * Marcelo Garcia * Jonathan Satava * Archilochus * Jack Ma * Bill Gates

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #444 “Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More” and #241 “The Relationship Episode: Sex, Love, Polyamory, Marriage, and More (with Esther Perel).”

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SHOW NOTES [05:46] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:49] Enter Hugh Jackman. * [07:22] What books has Hugh gifted most? * [10:35] Hugh’s meditation practices. * [14:07] Summoning and maintaining the emotional and physical energy necessary for performing. * [19:59] What lessons did Hugh’s father teach him about being an example to others? * [25:32] The contract Hugh made with himself at the end of drama school. * [29:13] Best decisions Hugh made in the first years of being an aspiring/working actor. * [34:23] How has Hugh learned to trust his intuition? * [37:07] The design of the day and the efficacy of manifestation. * [39:38] The most efficient exercises Hugh knows. * [40:53] The importance of incorporating relaxation into physical activity (the 85% rule). * [44:17] Enter Esther Perel.* * [44:41] Esther’s background. * [46:11] Growing up among Holocaust survivors in Antwerp. * [53:45] Her parents’ survival: chance vs. choice. * [1:02:27] Trust or vulnerability: which comes first? * [1:04:24] Impermanence as motivation for living fully. * [1:06:24] Esther on being counterphobic. * [1:09:35] Studying in Jerusalem. * [1:14:02] Seeking and approaching mentors. * [1:22:39] Eroticism as an antidote to death. * [1:26:04] Options for couples with sexual listlessness. * [1:33:04] Too much honesty in relationships? American vs. European views. * [1:39:07] Complete sharing vs. caring in relationships. * [1:40:16] Guiding patients through infidelity disclosure. * [1:45:29] Overcoming fear of abandonment in non-exclusive relationships. * [1:52:23] Quarterly relationship report cards. * [1:53:54] “Don’t ask, don’t tell” in polyamorous relationships. * [1:55:46] Innovation and flexibility over rigid ideology in relationships. * [1:58:43] Relationships as power dynamics. * [2:02:20] The research process for Esther’s book on adultery. * [2:08:36] Arguments for marriage today. * [2:13:47] Divorce rates in second marriages. * [2:15:13] Marriage’s effect on relationship behavior. * [2:17:54] Human questions explored through infidelity in Esther’s book. * [2:21:48] Books Esther frequently gifts and rereads. * [2:22:42] Esther’s billboard. * [2:23:15] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Hugh Jackman:

Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Deadpool & Wolverine | Marvel
• ‘Music Man’ With Hugh Jackman Extends Broadway Run | Variety
• Les Misérables | Prime Video
• End Child Hunger in America | No Kid Hungry
• We All Have a Strength to Share | Share Our Strength
• Here is New York by E.B. White | Amazon
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace | Amazon
• This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) | Farnam Street
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers | Amazon
• A Personalized Journey to Inner Peace, Clarity, and Wellness | Transcendental Meditation
• How to Cage the Monkey Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #175
• Chariots Of Fire | Prime Video
• Mantra: Om Paramatmane Namah with Anuradha Choudry | YogaAnytime
• Hugh Jackman on Marriage and Family | Good Housekeeping
• What is the Origin of the Christian Fish Symbol? | Christianity Today
• Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
• Neighbours | Prime Video
• Royal Shakespeare Company | RSC
• Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife (FNPW)
• Obituary: Toby Schmitz Remembers the Rock Surfers Theatre Co. | The Beast
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• X-Men Film Series In Order | IMDb
• Hugh Jackman in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as Gaston | Repeat Attenders
• Hugh Jackman in Sunset Boulevard | Repeat Attenders
• Oklahoma! | Prime Video
• Hugh Jackman in The Boy From Oz | Broadway JLM
• Rowing Machine Model D | Concept2
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• How the 85% Rule Can Help You Succeed at Work | Fast Company
• Australia | Prime Video

Connect with Esther Perel:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel | Amazon
• The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel | Amazon
• Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel | Audible
• The Jewish Community of Antwerp, Belgium | Museum of the Jewish People
• If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi | Amazon
• Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum
• Rachel Botsman: We’ve Stopped Trusting Institutions and Started Trusting Strangers | TEDSummit
• BJ Miller — The Man Who Studied 1,000 Deaths to Learn How to Live | The Tim Ferriss Show #153
• Chutzpah — The Yiddish Word That Means Audacity | My Jewish Learning
• Esther Perel on the Difference Between Sexuality and Eroticism | Big Think
• History of Monogamy: The Shift from Duty to Pleasure | Esther Perel
• More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux and Janet Hardy | Amazon
• Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino | Amazon
• Understanding Polyamory: What’s Compersion? | HelloFlo
• I Think You’re Fat by A.J. Jacobs | Esquire
• Esther Perel: Rethinking Infidelity … A Talk for Anyone Who Has Ever Loved | TED2015
• From Theater to Therapy to Twitter, the Eerie History of Gaslighting | Slate
• Monica Lewinsky on the Culture of Humiliation | Vanity Fair
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl | Amazon
• The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm | Amazon
• The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment by Jack Morin | Amazon
• Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | Amazon
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Billy Shore * E.B. White * David Foster Wallace * Gary Hart * Eric Liddell * Lisle Jones * David Attenborough * Christopher Jackman * Grace McNeil * Billy Graham * Brené Brown * Queen Elizabeth II * Kylie Minogue * Guy Pearce * Margot Robbie * Ian Jackman * Ralph Jackman * Ryan Holiday * Gaston * Sir Trevor Nunn * Jesus * Joseph Campbell * Beth Lewis * Peter Attia * Primo Levi * David Blaine * Sala Ferlegier * Icek Perel * Jack Saul * Rachel Botsman * BJ Miller * Salvador Minuchin * Ed Zschau * Richard Feynman * A.J. Jacobs * Oscar Wilde * Bill Clinton * Monica Lewinsky

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #60 “Arnold Schwarzenegger on Psychological Warfare“ and #331 “Ann Miura-Ko — The Path from Shyness to World-Class Debater and Investor.“

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SHOW NOTES [04:08] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:11] Enter Arnold Schwarzenegger. * [05:45] Where did Arnold develop his cast iron confidence? * [09:15] Mastering the psychological warfare of bodybuilding. * [13:58] Transferring this skill set to Hollywood. * [17:13] On making millions before becoming a movie star. * [19:48] Playing good bricklayer/bad bricklayer with Franco Columbu. * [24:41] How Twins came together. * [29:14] Meditation as one of many answers. * [35:47] Enter Ann-Miura Ko.* * [36:14] Ann’s childhood shyness. * [38:14] The Japanese phrase Ann used as a hostile kid in Michigan. * [40:20] How Ann overcame introversion. * [43:13] Ann’s first solo stage speech. * [44:22] Why Ann continued with speech and debate. * [45:17] Ann’s love for competition. * [46:54] Ann’s extreme efforts for pizza. * [48:57] The catalyst for Ann’s debate improvement. * [53:01] Debate competition format. * [56:56] Ann’s recommended resources for improving debate skills. * [59:56] Observations on modern debate in politics and family. * [1:02:01] The most important lesson from Ann’s debating years. * [1:04:50] Differences between debate and negotiation. * [1:06:53] Ann’s father’s journey to America and favorite phrase. * [1:10:29] Ann’s world-class effort in menial job tasks. * [1:13:15] How a Yale tour led to shadowing a CEO. * [1:18:36] Ann’s first job experience. * [1:20:20] Ann’s favorite office supplies. * [1:21:32] Ann’s cherished personal artifacts. * [1:23:06] Ann’s experience teaching Mayfield Fellows at Stanford. * [1:24:42] A reading list and plans for Ann’s Stanford startup class. * [1:28:05] Spotting artificial inflation in startup valuations. * [1:31:29] Why Ann changed her career path from medicine. * [1:34:45] What Ann knew about herself that her parents and test scores didn’t. * [1:38:55] Ann’s entry into venture capital and startup investing. * [1:39:29] An encounter with Steve Jobs. * [1:40:40] A job offer based on shared interests. * [1:44:40] Ann’s experience at CRV during 9/11. * [1:47:55] The most expensive words in investing. * [1:48:16] First principles thinking and common leadership decisions. * [1:50:52] Winning strategy vs. strategy not to lose. * [1:51:59] Manifestations of hedging as a defensive strategy. * [1:53:46] The importance of focusing on your own race. * [1:55:47] A need for aggressiveness to win. * [1:56:38] How Ann met Mike Maples, Jr. * [1:59:26] Ann’s PhD plans and shift to working with Mike. * [2:02:12] Ann’s reaction to Mike’s unusual proposition. * [2:06:40] Ann’s hectic first year at Floodgate. * [2:08:41] Ann’s real first name. * [2:09:21] Ann’s struggles and coping mechanisms. * [2:14:56] Ann’s superpowers. * [2:18:44] Thunder lizards and Ann’s pursuit of them. * [2:20:20] Ann’s view on AI and machine learning’s impact. * [2:23:11] Philosophy exercises and real-world applications. * [2:24:50] Aligning collective and self-interests in problem-solving. * [2:27:08] Books Ann has gifted or reread most. * [2:29:09] A recent, game-changing purchase under $100. * [2:30:28] Ann’s billboard. * [2:31:19] The meaning of Ann’s Japanese name characters. * [2:32:19] Ann’s online presence and Floodgate’s name origin. * [2:34:58] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Arnold Schwarzenegger:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

• The Positive Corner of the Internet | Arnold’s Pump Club
• Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life by Arnold Schwarzenegger | Amazon
• Total Recall | Prime Video
• True Lies | Prime Video
• Twins | Prime Video
• The Terminator | Prime Video
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Wins Junior Mr. Europe (1965) | Golden Era Bookworm
• Achieving Your Dream: Arnold’s Thought Becomes True | The Metamorphosis
• Big Muscles And The Big Screen: Bodybuilders In Film. | Bodybuilding
• Stay Hungry by Charles Gaines (Book) | Amazon
• Stay Hungry (Film) | Prime Video
• Pumping Iron | Prime Video
• The Streets of San Francisco | Wikipedia
• Conan the Barbarian | Prime Video
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Reveals How He Made Millions Before Becoming a Movie Star | Moneywise
• Obvious History: How Arnold Schwarzenegger Made a Million Dollars Laying Bricks | Interview Magazine
• Ghostbusters | Prime Video
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito on Life and Death | Interview
• 43 Years Ago, ‘Star Wars’ Creator George Lucas Made a $4 Billion Decision — Even Though It Had Nothing to Do With Money | Inc.com
• Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201
• A Personalized Journey to Inner Peace, Clarity, and Wellness | Transcendental Meditation

Connect with Ann Miura-Ko:

Floodgate | Twitter | Instagram

• Foothill College
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury | Amazon
• Palo Alto High School
• Stanford University
• Official Cobra Kai Trailer | YouTube
• The Crash-Course Guide to Lincoln-Douglas Debate | Debate Central
• The Socratic Method | University of Chicago Law School
• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls | Amazon
• UK Parliament Debates Trump State Visit | CNN
• Harvard Negotiation Project
• Getting Past No: Negotiating in Difficult Situations by William Ury | Amazon
• What is BATNA? How to Find Your Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement | Harvard Law School Daily Blog
• Japan in the 1950s | The Atlantic
• Yale University
• Hewlett-Packard
• .NET | Microsoft
• Things To Do In Kanazawa | Inside Kyoto
• Pilot Juice Up 04 Retractable Gel Ink Pen | Amazon
• Nuuna Notebooks | Amazon
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Lyft Is Finally Ditching the Furry Pink Mustache | Wired
• Stanford Technology Ventures Program
• Investing in Thunder Lizards by Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate | Stanford eCorner
• MS&E 275: Intelligent Growth in Startups with R. Ann Miura-Ko | Stanford
• Qualtrics
• Zimride
• Founders Fund
• Andreessen Horowitz
• Floodgate: On the Hunt for Thunder Lizards — Case | HBR
• Qualtrics: Rapid International Expansion — Case | HBR
• Y Combinator
• Justin.tv | Wikipedia
• Socialcam | Wikipedia
• Xamarin | Twitter
• MongoDB — Case | HBR
• Hewlett-Packard Imaging Systems Division: Sonos 100 C/F Introduction — Case | HBR
• The Sunk Cost Fallacy | You Are Not So Smart
• McKinsey and Company
• Charles River Ventures
• 9/11: The Day of the Attacks | The Atlantic
• Making Oprah | WBEZ
• The Value of Aggression — Ode to Dan Gable | Tim Ferriss
• Google Cloud
• VMWare
• Deal Flow | Investopedia
• Kleiner Perkins
• Excel Venture Management
• Sequoia
• Ayasdi
• TaskRabbit
• Refinery29
• Oracle
• The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete by Chris Anderson | Wired
• The Trolley Problem | BBC Radio 4
• What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration from Teachers across America by Ted Dintersmith | Amazon
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini | Amazon
• A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Amazon
• Quik Shade MAX Shade Chair | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Reg Park * Steve Reeves * Larry Gordon * Dustin Hoffman * Al Pacino * Woody Allen * Bob Rafelson * Ann-Margret * Kirk Douglas * Dino De Laurentiis * John Milius * James Cameron * Sylvester Stallone * Jean-Claude Van Damme * Franco Columbu * Joe Weider * Ivan Reitman * Robin Williams * Danny DeVito * Tom Pollock * George Lucas * Mike Maples, Jr. * Frederic Chopin * Abraham Lincoln * Stephen Douglas * Socrates * Aristotle * John Rawls * Donald Trump * Allan Bromley * George H.W. Bush * Lou Platt * Bill Gates * Ann Livermore * Tina Seelig * Tom Byers * Ryan Smith * Ed Zschau * Michael Seibel * Stephanie Schatz * Richard Feynman * Lisa Brennan-Jobs * Steve Jobs * Ted Dintersmith * E.L. Doctorow * Izhar Armony * Sir John Templeton * Oprah Winfrey * Phil Donahue * Dan Gable * Diane Greene * Ramesh Johari * Jack Welch * Godzilla * Sam Harris

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode “Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to Millions“ and “Interview of Kevin Kelly, Co-Founder of WIRED, Polymath, Most Interesting Man In The World?“

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SHOW NOTES [05:47] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:50] Enter Derek Sivers. * [07:20] From pig show busker to circus ringleader. * [10:42] Derek’s framework for developing confidence. * [13:05] “The standard pace is for chumps.” * [18:51] Relaxing for the same result. * [24:01] The origins of “HELL YEAH! or no.” * [26:25] “Busy” implies a life out of control. * [28:03] What inspired the automation of CD Baby? * [33:22] Derek’s billboard. * [34:32] Good advice at any age: “Don’t be a donkey.” * [40:24] Enter Kevin Kelly. * [41:02] Kevin’s biggest regret. * [43:13] Finding contentment in minimalism and “voluntary simplicity” without starving to death. * [50:33] Kevin’s epiphany when he embraced writing as a late bloomer. * [56:40] Why Kevin promised himself he would never resort to teaching English while traveling abroad. * [59:07] Finding purpose through resilience and the creator’s dilemma. * [1:06:50] Why the appeal of being a billionaire is overrated. * [1:11:05] Middle-aged optimization. * [1:15:28] Realizations following a “six months until death” challenge. * [1:20:08] Kevin’s Kickstarter-funded project linking angels and robots. * [1:22:41] Why a self-proclaimed ex-hippie waited until his 50th birthday to try LSD for the first time. * [1:28:43] Why a population implosion is probable in the next 100 years. * [1:36:05] The greatest gift you can give to your child. * [1:38:21] The criteria for Amish technology assimilation. * [1:45:03] What technology-free sabbaticals can do for you. * [1:48:53] Long Now Foundation’s vision of a better civilization. * [1:53:33] The graphic novel teaching young people how to become indispensable. * [1:54:52] An antidote to misguided “follow your passion” advice. * [1:56:44] Kevin’s favorite fiction book. * [1:59:15] The resource Kevin compiled for documentary lovers. * [2:02:47] A name Kevin considers synonymous with “success” (and why success is overrated). * [2:05:46] What Kevin would change about himself. * [2:07:59] Daily rituals. * [2:10:44] How Kevin accumulated enough books to fill a two-story library. * [2:15:19] How Adam Savage from MythBusters* transformed Kevin’s method of organization. * [2:17:14] The project everyone should undertake at least once in life. * [2:19:30] Does discovery equal invention? * [2:20:12] Kevin’s advice to his younger self. * [2:23:16] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Derek Sivers:

Website | Podcast | Twitter | YouTube

• Useful Not True: Whatever Works for You by Derek Sivers
• How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion by Derek Sivers
• Hell Yeah or No: What’s Worth Doing by Derek Sivers
• Your Music and People: Creative and Considerate Fame by Derek Sivers
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers
• Music | Derek Sivers
• CD Baby | Wikipedia
• The World’s Preeminent College for the Study of Music | Berklee School of Music
• Relax for the Same Result | Derek Sivers
• The Marvin Braude Bike Trail in Santa Monica | Pacific Park
• Penguins vs. Pelicans | National Geographic
• No Yes. Either HELL YEAH! or No. | Derek Sivers
• Now Now Now | Derek Sivers
• The Most Successful E-mail I Ever Wrote by Derek Sivers | Tim’s Blog
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• INTJ Personality (Architect) | 16Personalities
• Vanilla Sky | Prime Video
• Kerala, India | Book My Billboards
• Clean City Law: Secrets of São Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban | 99% Invisible
• Paradox Resolved: Buridan’s Ass | Steve Patterson
• The Tim Ferriss Experiment | YouTube

Connect with Kevin Kelly:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

• Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly | Amazon
• Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities by Kevin Kelly | Amazon
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly | Amazon
• What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly | Amazon
• Vanishing Asia: Three Volume Set: West, Central, and East by Kevin Kelly | Amazon
• The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture, and Business | Wired
• The Whole of the ‘Whole Earth Catalog’ Is Now Online | Wired
• What is Voluntary Simplicity? | The Simplicity Collective
• What Is Stoicism? A Definition and Nine Stoic Exercises to Get You Started | Daily Stoic
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• 1,000 True Fans by Kevin Kelly | The Technium
• A Cherished Destination for Conversation and Discussion | The WELL
• Cat’s Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut | Amazon
• Teach English Abroad: Top 54 Countries | TEFL.Org
• The Circle of Innovation: You Can’t Shrink Your Way to Greatness by Tom Peters | Amazon
• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. | Amazon
• Wealth Is Overrated | Wired
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts | Amazon
• Walden and On the Dity of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau | Amazon
• Wall Street | Prime Video
• Shoulda Been Dead | This American Life
• Futurama Death Clock | Kevin Kelly
• The Tail End | Wait But Why
• The Silver Cord by Kevin Kelly and Steve Masseroni | Amazon
• The Hidden Knowledge of Animals — Mark Plotkin on Nature’s Medicine Cabinet | The Tim Ferriss Show #537
• Dr. Andrew Weil — The 4-7-8 Breath Method, Cannabis, The Uses of Coca Leaf, Rehabilitating Demonized Plants, Kava for Anxiety, Lessons from Wade Davis, The Psychedelic Renaissance, How to Emerge from Depression, Tales from 50+ Visits to Japan, Matcha Benefits, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #615
• The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys by James Fadiman | Amazon
• The Honest Drug Book: A Chemical & Botanical Journey Through The Legal High Years by Dominic Milton Trott | Amazon
• A Child’s Garden of Grass: The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users by Jack S. Margolis and Richard Clorfene | Amazon
• Jack S. Margolis’ Complete Book of Recreational Drugs by Jack S. Margolis | Amazon
• Cassandra Complex | Wikipedia
• What Is Moore’s Law and Is It Still True? | Investopedia
• Malthusianism | Wikipedia
• World Population Growth Is Expected to Nearly Stop By 2100 | Pew Research Center
• By 2060 the Total Population of Humans on Earth Will Be Less than It Is Today. | Long Bets
• Amish Hackers | Kevin Kelly
• I Stopped Using Screens on Sundays. This Is How It Changed My Life | Fast Company
• A Member of the Roche Group | Genentech
• Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals | HBR
• Fostering Long-Term Thinking | The Long Now Foundation
• The Clock of the Long Now | The Long Now Foundation
• Building an Archive of All Documented Human Languages | The Rosetta Project
• The Arena for Accountable Predictions | Long Bets
• Genetic Rescue to Enhance Biodiversity | Revive & Restore
• Foundation Series Books 1-7 by Isaac Asimov | Amazon
• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko by Daniel H. Pink | Amazon
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport | Amazon
• Cal Newport: “Follow Your Passion” Is Bad Advice | 99U
• Shantaram: A Novel by Gregory David Roberts | Amazon
• Joshua Waitzkin | The Tim Ferriss Show #2
• Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin | Amazon
• Kevin Kelly’s Favorite Documentaries | True Films
• Man on Wire | Prime Video
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters | Prime Video
• A State of Mind | Amazon
• Valproate | Wikipedia
• Top 10 Benefits of Learning Drums for Adults and Children | Chinook School of Music
• The New York Times
• MythBusters | Discovery GO
• Efficiency and First Order of Retrievability in Shops | Adam Savage’s Tested
• Shipping Boxes, Shipping Supplies, Packaging Materials, Packing Supplies | ULINE
• The World’s Work Marketplace | Upwork (Formerly Elance)

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Kimo Williams * Ariel Hyatt * Amber Rubarth * Tom Cruise * Jean Buridan * Seneca * Marcus Aurelius * Kurt Vonnegut * Tom Peters * Rolf Potts * Charlie Sheen * Ira Glass * Matt Groening * Stewart Brand * Thomas Robert Malthus * Gia-Miin Fuh * Warren Buffett * Brian Eno * Isaac Asimov * Daniel H. Pink * Cal Newport * Gregory David Roberts * Joshua Waitzkin * Bobby Fischer * Jesus * Adam Savage * Lloyd Kahn * Benjamin Franklin * Christopher Columbus

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #287 “Terry Crews — How to Have, Do, and Be All You Want“ and episode #466 “Richard Koch on Mastering the 80/20 Principle, Achieving Unreasonable Success, and the Art of Gambling“

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Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [04:48] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:52] Enter Terry Crews. * [06:17] Terry’s art background and growing up in Flint, Michigan. * [15:35] A favorite failure. * [22:40] Two ways of confronting an abusive father. * [30:41] Terry reflects on his favorite Ralph Waldo Emerson quote. * [34:20] How Terry coped with imposter syndrome on his first movie set — with Arnold Schwarzenegger. * [39:17] Enter Richard Koch. * [39:40] Richard’s non-story story about wines, spirits, and chat shows. * [41:16] Exception to my “no book quotes” policy for Richard. * [42:10] Secrets revealed in Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. * [47:32] Richard’s peculiar talent and its discovery. * [50:17] Richard’s investing success despite weak numeracy: the star principle. * [59:48] Richard’s $1.5 million investment decision. * [1:03:41] Business “segmentation” in The Star Principle. * [1:06:40] Principles governing Richard’s portfolio. * [1:09:07] Richard’s firing from BCG and meeting Bill Bain. * [1:19:03] The growth share matrix (Boston box) explained. * [1:22:50] What Bain and Company appreciated about Richard. * [1:36:07] Results of early partner-like behavior at Bain. * [1:40:00] Key takeaways from Perspectives on Strategy and other recommended books. * [1:44:06] Richard’s preference for principles over knowledge and The 80/20 Principle’s origin. * [1:57:58] Richard’s happiness and time/energy allocation. * [2:01:16] Comparing journaling styles. * [2:07:24] Adventurers vs. controllers: who has more fun? * [2:10:36] Inspiration for Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It*. * [2:17:50] Richard’s definition of success and nine landmarks of unreasonably successful people. * [2:20:56] Landmark one: self-belief. * [2:23:40] Landmark two: Olympian expectations. * [2:24:34] Landmark three: transforming experiences. * [2:32:52] Landmark four: one breakthrough achievement. * [2:35:36] Landmark five: make your own trail. * [2:35:50] Landmark six: find and drive your personal vehicle. * [2:45:24] Landmark seven: thrive on setbacks. * [2:47:54] Landmark eight: acquire unique intuition. * [2:48:15] Landmark nine: distort reality. * [2:48:56] How landmarks reinforce each other. * [2:51:24] Nelson Mandela’s unique intuition during imprisonment. * [2:58:31] Richard’s annual question instead of new year’s resolutions. * [3:01:44] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Terry Crews:

Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Tough: My Journey to True Power by Terry Crews | Amazon
• Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan? | Rolling Stone
• Internet Is Surprised That Terry Crews Is Also a Talented Artist | Bored Panda
• Where Wonder Ignites Creativity | Interlochen Center for the Arts
• Pursue Your Purpose | Western Michigan University
• Terry Playing Basketball at Flint Academy HS | Instagram
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: “God Will Not Have His Work Made Manifest by Cowards.” | Goodreads
• The 6th Day | Prime Video
• White Chicks | Prime Video
• Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss

Connect with Richard Koch:

Website | Twitter

• Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It: Unlocking the 9 Secrets of People Who Changed the World by Richard Koch | Amazon
• The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch | Amazon
• Windsor Castle
• David Bowie 2002 Interview with Michael Parkinson | YouTube
• Bodleian Libraries | University of Oxford
• Cours d’Économie Politique. Professé a l’Université de Lausanne. by Vilfredo Pareto | AbeBooks
• What Is the Pareto Principle — AKA the Pareto Rule or 80/20 Rule? | Investopedia
• Interview: Richard Koch, Author of The 80/20 Principle | Boing Boing
• Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately | Amazon
• Betfair
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
• The Star Principle: How It Can Make You Rich by Richard Koch | Amazon
• CVC May Bid for Gambling Firm Betfair | The Guardian
• L.E.K. Consulting
• Horse Racing Cards, Results & Betting | Racing Post
• Apple’s Segmentation Strategy, and the Folly of Conventional Wisdom | O’Reilly Radar
• Price Simplifying Vs. Proposition Simplifying: Understanding Your Options by Richard Koch | Entrepreneur
• “Up or Out” Policy: What It’s Like to be Pushed Out Of McKinsey, BCG, or Bain | CaseCoach
• Computacenter
• Bain & Company
• Goldman Sachs
• Headhunter | Investopedia
• What Is the Growth Share Matrix? | BCG
• Comparison and Usage of the Boston Consulting Portfolio and the McKinsey-Portfolio | Hochschule Aalen
• Vanderbilt University
• The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives Edited by Carl W. Stern, George Stalk, Jr., and Michael S. Deimler | Amazon
• Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt | Amazon
• Financial Times Guide to Strategy: How to Create, Pursue and Deliver a Winning Strategy by Richard Koch | Amazon
• Richard Koch: $100 Million Net Worth Without 80-Hour Workweeks | Mergers and Inquisitions
• The Financial Times Guide to Management and Finance: An A-Z of Tools, Terms and Techniques by Richard Koch | Amazon
• Managing Without Management : A Post-Management Manifesto for Business Simplicity by Richard Koch | Amazon
• The ‘Law’ That Explains Why You Can’t Get Anything Done | BBC Worklife
• David Yarrow on Art, Markets, Business, and Combining It All | The Tim Ferriss Show #443
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Amazon
• What My Morning Journal Looks Like | Tim Ferriss
• The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal: A Companion Volume to the Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron | Amazon
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell | Amazon
• Forget Liverpool. Hamburg, Germany, Made the Beatles into the Band They Became | Los Angeles Times
• Boris Johnson’s Plan to Get Brexit Done and ‘Hang the Consequences’ | Foreign Policy
• Bob Dylan Meets Woody Guthrie, January 29, 1961 | Music History Calendar
• Song to Woody by Bob Dylan | Amazon Music
• Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan | Amazon Music
• Jeff Bezos In 1999 on Amazon’s Plans Before the Dotcom Crash | CNBC
• A Short History of the Falklands War | Imperial War Museums
• Lenin’s Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution | Foreign Affairs
• How Walt Disney Funded His Dream by Richard Koch | HuffPost
• Plane Crazy 1928 Sound Cartoon | Walt Disney Animation Studios
• 5 Facts You May Not Know About Disney and Dali’s Lost Project ‘Destino’ | Park West Gallery
• In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. | Amazon
• Who Were the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks? | ThoughtCo.
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• Churchill the Failure: The Paradoxical Truth About the Best and Worst Leaders | Forbes
• Reality Distortion Field | Wikipedia
• A Visit to Robben Island, the Brutal Prison that Held Mandela, Is Haunting and Inspiring | Smithsonian Magazine
• Guidance from the Father of Living an 80/20 Life: An Interview with Richard Koch | Live Your Legend

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Dwight Eichelberg * Rebecca King-Crews * Terry Crews, Sr. * Patricia Ann Crews * Ralph Waldo Emerson * Arnold Schwarzenegger * Michael Parkinson * David Bowie * Vilfredo Pareto * Adolf Hitler * Vladimir Lenin * Joseph Stalin * Antony Ball * Adrian Mitchell * Phil Hulme * Roy Barber * Egon Zehnder * Bruce Henderson * Bill Bain * Ralph Willard * Mitt Romney * Fred Reichheld * Mark Allen * Richard Burton * Nicholas Brealey * Northcote Parkinson * Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi * Bob Dylan * Otto von Bismarck * Winston Churchill * Herb Asquith * Malcolm Gladwell * John Lennon * Bill Gates * Jeff Bezos * Marie Curie * Leonardo da Vinci * Walt Disney * Albert Einstein * Viktor Frankl * Sigmund Freud * Alfred Adler * John Maynard Keynes * Madonna * Nelson Mandela * J.K. Rowling * Helena Rubinstein * Paul of Tarsus * Jesus * Margaret Thatcher * Boris Johnson * Harry Potter * Woody Guthrie * David Shaw * Leopoldo Galtieri * Aleksandr Ulyanov * Mickey Mouse * Salvador Dali * Tom Peters * Robert H. Waterman, Jr. * Snow White * Donald Duck * Nassim Nicholas Taleb * Steve Jobs * Bob Iger * Tobi Lütke * P.W. Botha * F.W. de Klerk

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #430 “Elizabeth Gilbert’s Creative Path: Saying No, Trusting Your Intuition, Index Cards, Integrity Checks, Grief, Awe, and Much More” and episode #300 “Jack Kornfield — Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy in the Present.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:36] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:38] Enter Elizabeth Gilbert. * [07:04] Liz shares who Rayya Elias was and how she’s remembered her in story at The Moth. * [14:53] What kind of stories and storytellers make Liz break out in applause? * [21:05] What has Liz learned from Martha Beck? * [23:49] Staying true to one’s inner compass and saying “No” without remorse. * [27:03] The simple “No” via Byron Katie. * [33:07] The wisdom of the body. * [36:56] Enter Jack Kornfield.* * [37:24] Jack’s connection with hang gliding and paragliding. * [40:06] Jack’s childhood, abusive father, and role as family peacemaker. * [45:12] “If you’re going to be angry, do it right.” * [47:48] Jack’s transition from pre-med to Asian studies at Dartmouth. * [49:28] From hippie to Buddhist monk. * [50:57] Psychedelics’ influence on Jack’s spiritual path and current stance. * [59:53] Meeting Stanislav Grof. * [1:03:32] Finding and studying under Ajahn Chah. * [1:05:59] Rookie monk training in Thailand and enduring suffering. * [1:13:49] Long silence periods and out-of-body experiences. * [1:16:37] Mystical experiences aren’t always pleasant. * [1:19:15] Tim’s experience at Spirit Rock. * [1:20:10] Challenges during training in Thailand and Burma. * [1:24:47] “Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed…” * [1:29:55] Advice for deep inner work with real-life responsibilities. * [1:42:04] Compassion vs. empathy. * [1:46:19] Technology’s role in developing compassion. * [1:47:26] Lovingkindness meditation for Westerners. * [1:56:04] Attending the first White House Buddhist Leadership Conference. * [1:57:59] The mission of CASEL. * [1:59:18] Introducing mindfulness practice and love as a superpower. * [2:10:11] Returning to self-discovery after derailment. * [2:15:57] Apparent derailment as necessary communication. * [2:19:17] Self-talk for managing inappropriate anger. * [2:37:21] Returning to the US to study clinical psychology. * [2:42:50] Using forgiveness to help veterans and at-risk youth. * [2:45:30] Why community support beats community apathy. * [2:49:23] Lack of significant initiation rituals in modern society. * [2:53:10] Recommended book for newcomers to Jack’s work. * [2:57:48] Jack’s billboard. * [2:59:02] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Elizabeth Gilbert:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• City of Girls: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert | Amazon
• The Alpha Wolf by Elizabeth Gilbert | The Moth
• Sid & Nancy | Prime Video
• Breaking Bad | Prime Video
• East Coker | T.S. Eliot
• Song of Myself by Walt Whitman | Poetry Foundation
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel | Amazon
• The Godfather | Prime Video
• The Godfather Part II | Prime Video
• The Godfather Part III | Prime Video
• The School for The Work | Byron Katie

Connect with Jack Kornfield:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

• Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation by Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• Insight Meditation Society
• An Insight Meditation Center | Spirit Rock
• Tandem Paragliding in Grindelwald | Paragliding Jungfrau GmbH
• Psychedelics: Help or Hindrance? by Allan Hunt Badiner | Tricycle
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass | Amazon
• Psilocybin: A Journey Beyond the Fear of Death? by Richard Schiffman | Scientific American
• Buddhist Wheel of Life by Diana St. Ruth | Buddhism Now
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman | Amazon
• Esalen
• Gestalt Practice | Wikipedia
• Vultures and Charnel Grounds — East and West | Vajratool
• What Is the Concept of Samadhi? | Yogapedia
• Why the World Should Not Forget Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields of Cambodia by Adam Taylor | The Washington Post
• The Sound of One Hand Clapping: 281 Zen Koans with Answers by Yoel Hoffman | Amazon
• The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness by Steven Pinker | Time Magazine
• Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human by Daniel J. Siegel, MD | Amazon
• UK Appoints a Minister for Loneliness by Ceylan Yeginsujan | The New York Times
• MediTrain
• A Meditation on Lovingkindness | Jack Kornfield
• Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg | Amazon
• The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer by Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn and Dr. Elissa Epel | Amazon
• Meditations | Jack Kornfield
• Jack’s Programs | Sounds True
• First White House Buddhist Leadership Conference | Jack Kornfield
• CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning)
• The Magic of Mindfulness: Complain Less, Appreciate More, and Live a Better Life | The Tim Ferriss Show #122
• Mindfulness Daily with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield | Sounds True
• The Power of Awareness with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield | Sounds True
• The Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach | Sounds True
• Guided Meditation with Jack Kornfield | Sounds True
• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu | Amazon
• Mosaic Voices
• Cu Chulainn: An Iron Age Hero by Daragh Smyth | Amazon
• Restrepo | Prime Video
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger | Amazon
• The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul by Michael Meade | Amazon
• The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace by Jack Kornfield | Amazon
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker | Amazon
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves by Adam Hochschild | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Rayya Elias * T.S. Eliot * Walt Whitman * Hilary Mantel * Henry VIII * Kurt Vonnegut * Martha Beck * Byron Katie * Alice Walker * Sharon Salzberg * Joseph Goldstein * Adam Gazzaley * The Kornfield Brothers * Ajahn Chah * Gautama Buddha * Wing-tsit Chan * Trudy Goodman * Ram Dass * Roland R. Griffiths * Sam Harris * Richard Dawkins * Stanislav Grof * Daniel Goleman * David McClelland * Timothy Leary * Jiddu Krishnamurti * Richard Davidson * John C. Lilly * Joan Halifax * Ajahn Sumano * Anne LaMott * Maha Ghosananda * Dalai Lama * Jack Dorsey * Jesus * Daniel J. Siegel * Elizabeth Blackburn * Elissa Epel * Tara Brach * George Mumford * Chade-Meng Tan * Maya Angelou * Martin Luther King Jr. * Wes Nisker * Gary Snyder * Albert Einstein * B.J. Fogg * Esta Gallant Kornfield * Desmond Tutu * Omar Bradley * Taigu Ryokan * Jigoro Kano * Bill Ford * Michael Meade * Luis Rodriguez * C˙ Chulainn * Sebastian Junger * Pablo Neruda * Steven Pinker * Thomas Clarkson

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #366 “Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years to Do” and episode #214 “How to Design a Life — Debbie Millman.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

**Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, YouTube Music, *Amazon Music, Audible, or on your favorite podcast platform***.

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SHOW NOTES [05:11] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:14] Enter Neil Gaiman. * [06:44] What Ian Fleming taught Neil about writing — even when he doesn’t want to. * [09:56] Neil’s biggest rule for writing. * [12:41] Neil’s process for writing first drafts. * [14:30] What Neil aims to accomplish with his second drafts. * [14:40] Something Neil noticed when he first started writing and editing with the use of computers. * [17:27] Notebooks Neil prefers for writing first drafts. * [21:56] Fountain pens Neil has known and loved. * [22:57] How Neil’s default writing time has changed over the years. * [24:56] The value of the Groundhog Day routine. * [26:24] Today’s methods may not be tomorrow’s. * [27:53] Lessons learned from Terry Pratchett. * [29:22] Parting thoughts and gratitude. * [31:21] Enter Debbie Millman.* * [31:45] How Debbie describes her diverse background to new acquaintances. * [33:38] A childhood drawing predicting Debbie’s future. * [37:54] Debbie’s unintentional path to becoming a designer. * [45:41] Overcoming initial rejection. * [50:04] Debbie’s advice to her college self after that first major rejection. * [54:25] Empathy vs. feeling slighted by those who reject us. * [59:28] Manhattan’s influence on Debbie’s pursuit of happiness and career. * [1:06:42] Debbie’s abuse history and its impact on her self-sufficiency and charitable work. * [1:12:41] Coping with abuse aftermath and feelings of isolation. * [1:18:40] Debbie’s experience being called a “corporate clown” and “she-devil.” * [1:37:00] From lowest point to godmother: a transformative journey. * [1:37:38] The world-changing potential of brochures. * [1:43:14] The Design Matters podcast: origins and evolution over 12 years. * [1:46:46] Milton Glaser’s impact on design and Debbie’s life. * [1:52:16] The “10-Year Plan for a Remarkable Life” exercise. * [1:57:51] The nature of hard decisions. * [2:07:07] Recommended Design Matters episodes for design novices. * [2:07:55] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Neil Gaiman:

Website | Tumblr | Bluesky | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• The View from the Cheap Seats by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• Ian Fleming Explains How to Write a Thriller | Literary Hub
• The Irregular Lives of Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl | Artistic License Renewed
• Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl | Classic Short Stories
• Parson’s Pleasure by Roald Dahl | Esquire
• Marriott World Trade Center
• Neil Gaiman’s Writing Shed | The Well-Appointed Desk
• This Is What A Handwritten Novel By Neil Gaiman Looks Like | BuzzFeed
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman | Amazon
• Moleskine Notebooks | Amazon
• Leuchtturm Notebooks | Amazon
• Legatoria Rivoaltus, Venice | Facebook
• The Fountain Pen Hospital
• Lamy Safari Fountain Pen | Amazon
• Namiki-Pilot Falcon Collection Fountain Pen | Amazon
• Visconti Fountain Pens | Amazon
• The Pilot 823 | Amazon
• Groundhog Day | Prime Video
• Since 1947 | Plant Engineering
• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett | Amazon

Connect with Debbie Millman:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Design Matters Podcast

• The Professional Association for Design | AIGA
• Masters In Branding Program | School of Visual Arts
• Design Is Everything. Everything Is Design. | PRINT Magazine
• Books by Debbie Millman | Amazon
• Debbie Millman | The Great Discontent
• The Complete Gidget Collection | Amazon
• Women of Influence: Debbie Millman | UAlbany Magazine
• Hanlon’s Razor | Wikipedia
• Nantucket Nectars | Wikipedia
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs | Wikipedia
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• NO MORE PSA Campaign | Joyful Heart Foundation
• Home of Hip Hop Since 1992 | HOT 97
• Global Branding Agency | Sterling
• Eleven Madison Park Restaurant
• 365: AIGA Year in Design | AIGA
• AIGA: Sold Out | Speak Up Archive
• Is the Dark Side Prevailing? | Speak Up Archive
• World-Leading Brand Specialists | Landor
• Stop Being Sheep | Speak Up
• Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger | Amazon
• Debbie and Alex Isley In Ironic Chef Garb | Flickr
• How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman | Amazon
• Wally Olins: The Brand Handbook by Wally Olins | Amazon
• “This is Historic Times.” -George W. Bush, April 20, 2004 | Speak Up
• Live Internet Talk Radio | VoiceAmerica
• Equity Observer | Design Observer
• “Just When I Thought I Was Out…” (Clip) | The Godfather: Part III
• Chris Ware | Design Matters
• Amanda Palmer | Design Matters
• Alain de Botton | Design Matters
• Krista Tippett | Design Matters
• Nico Muhly | Design Matters
• Tim Ferriss | Design Matters

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Ian Fleming * James Bond * Roald Dahl * Ash Gaiman * John McPhee * Joe Hill * Charles Dickens * Tori Amos * Gene Wolfe * Terry Pratchett * George R.R. Martin * Massimo Vignelli * Milton Glaser * Steven Heller * Chris Sacca * David Bowie * Rosalind Russell * Robert Edelstein * Scarlett O’Hara * Mariska Hargitay * Maile Zambuto * Joe Biden * Felix Sockwell * Dave Weinberger * Walter Landor * Armin Vit * Erik Spiekermann * Bryony Gomez-Palacio * Michael Bierut * Paul Archer * Joyce Rutter Kaye * Mark Kingsley * Bill Drenttel * Molly * Simon Williams * Austin McGhie * Al Pacino * Dani Shapiro * Naval Ravikant * Chris Ware * Amanda Palmer * Alain de Botton * Krista Tippett * Nico Muhly

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #427 “Michael Lewis — Inside the Mind of the Iconic Writer” and episode #487 “Dr. Martine Rothblatt — A Masterclass on Asking Better Questions and Peering Into the Future.”

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Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#749: Michael Lewis and Martine RothblattThis episode is brought to you by Shopify! Shopify is one of my favorite platforms and one of my favorite companies. Shopify is designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business. In no time flat, you can have a great-looking online store that brings your ideas to life, and you can have the tools to manage your day-to-day and drive sales. No coding or design experience required.

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SHOW NOTES [04:13] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:16] Enter Michael Lewis. * [05:54] Why Michael quit his well-paid job to become a full-time author. * [12:58] Liar’s Poker is a cautionary tale, not a how-to book. * [15:16] On ambition and the metrics of success. * [18:31] Maximizing self-satisfaction, optimizing the writing process, and learning to sing. * [20:51] The value of having an impolite editor on your side. * [23:52] On the merits of productive laziness. * [28:13] How Michael determines if a project should proceed. * [29:51] Michael’s billboard. * [32:45] Enter Martine Rothblatt. * [33:14] Martine’s appreciation for Alan Watts’ book on human identity. * [35:34] Martine’s thoughts on AI-human coexistence in the movie Her*. * [36:31] BINA48 and realistic human simulations in media. * [39:53] Martine’s role models and inspirations. * [41:20] When Martine started a biotech company to save her daughter’s life. * [52:44] Glaxo Wellcome’s misconceptions about Martine’s successful drug. * [56:17] Martine’s interest in satellite communication systems. * [1:00:33] Promoting scientific literacy and curiosity. * [1:05:20] Questioning authority and Martine’s transgender journey. * [1:10:28] Martine’s non-binary gender identity. * [1:12:34] Key decisions in Martine’s transition. * [1:13:28] The need for genetic information protection laws. * [1:16:00] South American population and organ transplant research. * [1:21:42] Vagus nerve manipulation for various therapies. * [1:31:25] Martine’s Alzheimer’s cognitive enabler patent. * [1:38:17] The Rothblatt family’s “love nights” tradition. * [1:43:54] The possibility of machines experiencing love. * [1:49:20] Ethical considerations for future technology. * [1:52:44] Current practices future generations might view as barbaric. * [1:57:42] United Therapeutics’ zero-carbon-footprint headquarters. * [2:00:32] Refurbishing unusable lungs to save lives. * [2:04:45] United Therapeutics’ focus on long-term COVID-19 effects. * [2:07:26] Martine’s billboard. * [2:08:27] Advice for finding positivity in life. * [2:11:48] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Michael Lewis:

Website | Podcast

• Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis | Amazon
• Michael Lewis on Writing, Money, and the Necessary Self-Delusion of Creativity | The Marginalian
• Salomon Brothers | Wikipedia
• Simon & Schuster
• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams | Amazon
• The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Amazon
• Paul Stuart
• The New Republic
• Chthonian Definition and Meaning | Collins English Dictionary
• Being Lazy Is the Key to Success, According to the Best-Selling Author of ‘Moneyball’ | Inc.com
• Don’t Be Good — Be Great | Against the Rules

Connect with Martine Rothblatt:

Twitter | Instagram

• United Therapeutics
• Your Life or Mine: How Geoethics Can Resolve the Conflict Between Public and Private Interests in Xenotransplantation by Martine Rothblatt | Amazon
• From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form by Martine Rothblatt | Amazon
• Virtually Human: The Promise―and the Peril―of Digital Immortality by Martine Rothblatt
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts | Amazon
• Her | Prime Video
• BINA48 Meets Bina Rothblatt, Part One | The LifeNaut Project
• BINA48 Meets Bina Rothblatt, Part Two | The LifeNaut Project
• Abraham Lincoln Full Speech, Hall Of Presidents, Disney World | MouseSteps
• Most Powerful Moment In Black Mirror: Be Right Back | BrainPilot
• Upload | Prime Video
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | Amazon
• Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein | Amazon
• UCLA
• Children’s National Hospital
• Shepard’s Citations | Wikipedia
• Doing Well | Barron’s
• SiriusXM
• What Is a Satellite? | NASA
• Indian Ocean Station | Wikipedia
• Cosmos: A Personal Voyage | Wikipedia
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn | Amazon
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler | Amazon
• Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler | Amazon
• Anthony Fauci: ‘We Are Living in the Perfect Storm’ | Financial Times
• Transgender FAQ | GLAAD
• What Is Trans and What Does Non-Binary Mean? | PinkNews
• LGBTQ+ Terms and Definitions | TSER
• The Human Genome Project in 2020 Hindsight | GEN
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Consent and Autonomy in the Genomics Era | Current Genetic Medicine Reports
• Dr. Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America | The Tim Ferriss Show #469
• Little People of Ecuador: Laron Syndrome May Unlock Cancer, Diabetes Cure | NBC News
• Laron Syndrome | Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD) | NIH
• Generation of a Miniature Pig Disease Model for Human Laron Syndrome | Scientific Reports
• A CEO Who Wants to Genetically Modify Pig Organs for Human Transplant | CNBC
• Northwell Health
• National Geographic | Amazon
• Scientific American
• Electronic Medicine Fights Disease | Scientific American
• Nine Fascinating Facts About the Vagus Nerve | Mental Floss
• Vagus Nerve Stimulation | Mayo Clinic
• Crohn’s Disease Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic
• Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms and Causes | Mayo Clinic
• 11 Fun Facts About the Nervous System | Healthline
• (PDF) Auricular Acupuncture and Vagal Regulation | Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) | Johns Hopkins
• What is Alzheimer’s Disease? | alz.org
• ES2528029T3: Cognitive Enabler for Alzheimer’s Disease | Google Patents
• EEG & ECG Biosensor Solutions | NeuroSky
• Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory | Prime Video
• Martine Rothblatt: She Founded SiriusXM, a Religion, and a Biotech. For Starters. | The Washington Post
• Yamaha Music School
• Shabbat 101 | My Jewish Learning
• Zoom
• Google Meet
• The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind by Marvin Minsky | Amazon
• What Are Clarke’s Laws? | ThoughtCo.
• Neuralink
• Positive and Negative Liberty | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Is It Time for a Presidential Technoethics Commission? | The Conversation
• American Medical Association
• Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, and The Agnew Clinic | Smarthistory
• Climate Change: 12 Years to Save the Planet? Make That 18 Months | BBC News
• Is Nuclear Power Zero-Emission? No, but It Isn’t High-Emission Either | The Conversation
• United Therapeutics’ Office, the Unisphere, Is a Net-Zero Marvel | Fast Company
• Record-Breaking “Dream Team” Proves Doubters Wrong with Electric Helicopter Achievement | Guinness World Records
• The Real Story Behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign | Forbes

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Sam Bankman-Fried * Maria Popova * Michael Kinsley * Ned Chase * Chevy Chase * Henry Adams * Jean-Jacques Rousseau * Amos Tversky * John Thomas Lewis * Billy Fitzgerald * Alan Watts * Frank Sasinowski * Teilhard de Chardin * Bina Rothblatt * BINA48 * Robert A. Heinlein * Virginia Heinlein * Lazarus Long * Robert Kennedy * Bob Bell * John Vane * Carl Sagan * Thomas Kuhn * Isaac Newton * Albert Einstein * James Clerk Maxwell * Octavia Butler * Tony Fauci * Paul Revere * Prince * Boy George * Craig Venter * Francis Collins * Zvi Laron * Kevin Tracey * Marvin Minsky * Arthur C. Clarke * Elon Musk * Ray Kurzweil * Isaiah Berlin * Samuel D. Gross * Thomas Eakins * David Hayes Agnew * Joseph Lister * Jack Welch * Steve Jobs

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #55 “Pavel Tsatsouline on the Science of Strength and the Art of Physical Performance”and episode #158 “The Secrets of Gymnastic Strength Training.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:10] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:14] Enter Pavel Tsatsouline. * [06:34] Pavel’s background as a world-class trainer. * [07:07] Considerations while customizing a training regimen. * [09:40] Strength-building principles over equipment. * [10:36] When in doubt, train your grip and your core. * [12:57] How to grease the groove. * [16:08] How not to strengthen the “core.” * [18:53] Approaching training as a practice. * [21:16] Prioritizing strength — the “mother quality of all physical qualities.” * [23:57] The most counter-productive myths about strength training. * [27:14] Pavel’s hypothesis for the science behind hypertrophy. * [28:01] Deadlifts, kettlebells, and the most common mistakes with both. * [29:31] People who exemplify success to Pavel. * [30:09] Calmness is contagious. * [32:31] Enter Christopher Sommer.* * [33:23] Defining Gymnastics Strength Training (GST). * [37:08] Types of strength that most non-gymnasts will not have. * [41:10] Biggest mistakes made by those who self-teach handstands. * [46:10] Top exercises for identifying weaknesses in strength and mobility. * [56:47] The problem with focusing on muscular fatigue when training. * [1:05:03] What is a pike pulse and why does it matter? * [1:07:45] On kipping pull-ups. * [1:11:16] Identifying solutions to pain. * [1:18:38] The Jefferson curl. * [1:23:06] Why weighted mobility work needs to be approached with a different level of intensity than conditioning work. * [1:28:09] If someone is 35 years old, a former athlete, and has never done gymnastics, what’s a good exercise and what should be avoided? * [1:33:31] 3-5 joint mobility exercises for getting strong. * [1:38:52] Preferred way to work on shoulder extension. * [1:44:40] A good goal for those seeking to improve mobility. * [1:46:15] Yoga handstands vs. gymnastics handstands (aesthetics vs. gold medals). * [1:54:20] Coaches who have impressed Coach Sommer the most. * [1:55:49] The story of Dmitry Bilozerchev and Alexander Alexandrov. * [2:00:36] Differentiating immature athletes from mature athletes. * [2:03:43] Training for success. * [2:08:43] Describing the systematic approach to GST. * [2:16:58] Exercises to avoid for the first six months of GST. * [2:18:27] Breaking down the muscle-up. * [2:23:59] Understanding the purpose of using various grips. * [2:31:28] How Coach Sommer mentally preps athletes for a big competition. * [2:41:13] Questions Coach Sommer would ask a gymnastic coach before sending children off to train with them. * [2:45:36] Questions Coach Sommer would ask a gymnastic coach who trains adults. * [2:47:44] Balancing stretching and training time. * [2:52:52] People who exemplify success to Coach Sommer. * [2:58:16] Most gifted books. * [3:01:04] Morning rituals. * [3:05:02] Coach Sommer’s billboard. * [3:10:12] An ask for the audience and parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Pavel Tsatsouline:

StrongFirst

• Kettlebell: Simple and Sinister by Pavel Tsatsouline | Amazon
• Deadlift Dynamite: How to Master the King of All Strength Exercises by Pavel Tsatsouline and Andy Bolton | Amazon
• Easy Strength: How to Get a Lot Stronger Than Your Competition and Dominate In Your Sport by Dan John and Pavel Tsatsouline | Amazon
• Hard Style Abs: Hit Hard. Lift Heavy. Look the Part by Pavel Tsatsouline | Amazon
• The Naked Warrior: Master the Secrets of the Super-Strong — Using Bodyweight Exercises Only by Pavel Tsatsouline | Amazon
• Dumbbell Curl | Testosterone Nation
• Barbell Curl: Good vs. Bad Form | Testosterone Nation
• The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives | Tim Ferriss
• Rogue Kettlebells | Rogue Fitness
• How to Activate the Glutes | Upright Health
• How to Engage Your Core | Upright Health
• Grip Strength Training Workout Tips to Build Forearm Muscle | Men’s Health
• IronMind Captains of Crush Hand Gripper | Amazon
• How to ‘Grease the Groove’ and Exercise Easy | The Atlantic
• “Don’t Put Fitness on Dysfunction” | Elite Physical Therapy and Sports Performance
• Exactly How To Do a Plank | Runner’s World
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Why We Feel the Burn: The Science of Lactic Acid | ASFA
• Welcome to Functional Wellness | Functional Movement Systems (FMS)
• Periodisation: Organise Your Training to Ensure You Achieve Success All Year Round | Sports Performance Bulletin
• Matveyev Periodization Model | Poliquin
• Fast Growth is Overrated: Lessons from the Success of Yuri Vardanyan | James Clear
• 10 Reasons to Avoid Training to Failure | StrongFirst
• Hypertrophy Training vs. Strength Training: Pros and Cons | Healthline
• The Best All-Around Training Method Ever | StrongFirst
• Calmness Is Contagious, Even If You’re Faking It | Tiny Buddha

Connect with Coach Sommer:

GymnasticBodies.com | Instagram |Facebook

• Gymnastic Bodies Illustrated Pt. 1 (Videos) | The Adventure Agency
• Gymnastic Bodies Illustrated Pt. 2 (Videos) | The Adventure Agency
• Judgment-Free | Paradiso CrossFit
• Awaken Gym (Closed) | Yelp
• Amelia Boone on Beating 99% of Men and Suffering for High Performance | The Tim Ferriss Show #127
• Allan Bower on the Still Rings: 2014 Winter Cup Challenge Finals | USA Gymnastics
• Gymnastics in Gloucester and Stroud | Forma Fitness Classes
• The Healthy Rebellion | Robb Wolf
• Triple H on Pre-Fight Rituals, Injury Avoidance, and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. | The Tim Ferriss Show #72
• Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money | The Tim Ferriss Show #37 & #38
• Stranger In a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein | Amazon
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday | Amazon
• Prebiotics and Probiotics for Gut Health | SFI Health
• IBS Probiotics | VSL#3

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Lamar Gant * Gray Cook * Andy Bolton * Stuart Locke * Leonid Matveyev * Yurik Vardanyan * Eric Frohardt * Dominic D’Agostino * Allan Bower * Amelia Boone * Paul Watson * Dmitry Klokov * Dmitry Bilozerchev * Alexander Alexandrov * Olga Korbut * Tony Robbins * Robert Heinlein * Ryan Holiday * Arnold Schwarzenegger * Paulo Coelho * Wim Hoff * Stan McChrystal * Robb Wolf * Greg Glassman * Stacy Maloney * Paul Hamm * Mats Trane * Quinn Henoch * Ivan Ivankov * Rumen Aleksandrov * Kevin Mazeika * Wesley Tan * Dmitry Klokov * Yuri van Gelder * Barry Ross * Triple H * Floyd Mayweather * Archilochus

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SHOW NOTES [07:36] Notes about this supercombo format. * [08:39] Enter Seth Godin. * [09:05] Seth’s rules for speaking engagements and why he developed them. * [13:53] Navigating life’s big transitions. * [15:54] Why Seth publishes a daily blog. * [16:54] Writing process and overcoming blocks. * [21:01] Top businesss decisions. * [22:45] Discerning between good and bad ideas. * [24:27] Are you cut out to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer? * [30:10] Opportunies Seth is glad he declined. * [31:56] Money is a story. How does Seth tell it? * [34:56] Seth on education. * [38:11] Suggested practices for overwhelmed parents. * [41:03] Enter Dr. Sue Johnson.* * [41:39] Peer-reviewed clinical research supporting Sue’s work. * [44:47] EFT’s success rate and clinical definition of success in studies with distressed couples. * [48:47] Scales used to assess marital satisfaction and bond in research. * [54:55] Definition of a hold me tight conversation. * [56:15] Examples of hold me tight conversations. * [1:05:52] How a hold me tight conversation might work for someone who tends to isolate or feels isolated. * [1:14:35] Prevalence of isolation and the stigma around “dependency.” * [1:18:27] Attachment parenting vs. sleep training. * [1:28:09] Micro-interventions from Rogerian models of therapy (evocative questions). * [1:36:38] Sue’s response to clients who struggle to identify their feelings in their body. * [1:43:32] Upping the ante in a hold me tight conversation and its unintended effects. * [1:45:26] Sue’s approach to helping someone work through anger. * [1:48:53] Sue’s fascination with Winston Churchill and recommended reading. * [1:54:24] Common arguments between tango couples. * [2:07:35] Advice for couples who are in love but lack sexual spark. * [2:17:02] Advice for couples where the woman has a higher sex drive than the man. * [2:22:35] Development and content of Sue’s Hold Me Tight Online program. * [2:27:08] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Seth Godin:

Website | Seth’s Blog | Instagram | Facebook

• The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Other Books by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Up in the Air | Prime Video
• Glengarry Glen Ross | Prime Video
• Derek Sivers on Developing Confidence, Finding Happiness, and Saying No to Millions | The Tim Ferriss Show #125
• Spider-Man | Prime Video
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Chip Conley — Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal | The Tim Ferriss Show #374
• Do You Need Stephen King’s Pencil? | Ann Kroeker
• How to Overcome Writer’s Block | Dexa AI
• The Simple Cure for Writer’s Block | Seth’s Blog
• 52 Ways to Simplify Your Life by Lynn Gordon and Susan Synarski | Amazon
• A Short History of the Web | CERN
• Is Google Making the Web Stupid? | Seth’s Blog
• All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works — And Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All by Seth Godin | Amazon
• Four Reasons Why Riders Choose Uber | Investopedia
• First, Ten | Seth’s Blog
• Neil Gaiman — The Interview I’ve Waited 20 Years to Do | The Tim Ferriss Show #366
• Stop Stealing Dreams (What Is School For?) by Seth Godin | Seth’s Blog
• Master Marketer Seth Godin Shares His Secret to Bond with His Kids | Lift Enrichment

Connect with Dr. Sue Johnson:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | LinkedIn

• Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families by Dr. Sue Johnson | Amazon
• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson | Amazon
• Hold Me Tight Online Program
• What is EFT? | The International Centre For Excellence In Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
• Outcomes Research | Johns Hopkins Medicine
• At the Heart of Health | Cardus
• What Is a Milonga? | Argentine Tango
• How to Live Like a Rock Star (or Tango Star) in Buenos Aires | Tim Ferriss
• Predicting Change in Marital Satisfaction Throughout Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy | Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
• Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) | UF Health
• Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5) – PTSD | National Center for PTSD
• Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships by Dr. Sue Johnson | Amazon
• Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) | Fetzer Institute
• Beck’s Depression Inventory | ISMA
• Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ESR) | Open-Source Psychometrics Project
• A Brief Overview of Adult Attachment Theory and Research | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Psychology
• Soothing the Threatened Brain: Leveraging Contact Comfort with Emotionally Focused Therapy | PloS One
• What is Hold Me Tight? | ICEEFT
• My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464
• Desperado by Eagles | Amazon
• Attachment Parenting Basic Principles and Criticisms | Verywell Family
• Sleep Training Your Child: Myths and Facts Every Parent Should Know | Duke Department of Pediatrics
• Implementing a Student-Sustained No One Dies Alone (NODA) Program at an Academic Institution | Center to Advance Palliative Care
• In Pictures: Politician Mothers Take Their Babies to Work | BBC News
• New Zealand Speaker Cradles MP’s Baby during Parliament Debate | BBC News
• Stroppy | Merriam-Webster
• An Introduction to Rogerian (Person-Centered) Therapy | ThoughtCo.
• Ten Strategies for Evoking Change Talk | UIHI
• Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy | Hakomi Institute
• The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 – 1965 by Paul Reid and William Manchester | Amazon
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry | Amazon
• How Winston Churchill Endured the Blitz — and Taught the People of England to Do the Same | Smithsonian Magazine
• Winston Churchill during the First World War in Belgium | Imperial War Museums
• Tango | Wikipedia
• Tango World Record: Tim Ferriss and Alicia Monti | Live with Regis and Kelly
• Los Hermanos Macana | YouTube
• Requiem for a Niño Bien | The Tango Life
• The Cathedral of Tango: Review of Sunderland Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Trip Advisor
• The Swan Mating Ritual | Destination Stratford
• Unconscious Desire: The Affective and Motivational Aspects of Subliminal Sexual Priming | Archives of Sexual Behavior
• The Misunderstood Science of Sexual Desire | New York Magazine
• A.R.E. You There? What Is the Secret Ingredient That Makes a Relationship Thrive? | Ondina Wellness
• Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics | Archives of Sexual Behavior

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Jack Lemmon * Zig Ziglar * Derek Sivers * Spider-Man * Chip Conley * Stephen King * Po Bronson * Lynn Gordon * Sisyphus * Mark Hurst * Larry Ellison * Neil Gaiman * Bill Gross * Steven Spielberg * James Coan * John Bowlby * Carl Rogers * Winston Churchill * Oprah Winfrey * Bruce D. Perry * Omri Gillath * Rosemary Basson * ‪James S. Chisholm * Edward O. Laumann

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #485 “Jerry Seinfeld — A Comedy Legend’s Systems, Routines, and Methods for Success” and episode #39 “Maria Popova on Writing, Workflow, and Workarounds.”

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Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:16] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:19] Enter Jerry Seinfeld. * [06:46] Jerry’s writing process for survival in the comedy ecosystem. * [15:43] Lessons Jerry would teach in a writing class and how they relate to his fitness methods. * [15:43] Soliciting creative feedback while preserving pride over doing the work. * [20:33] Routines essential to Jerry’s well-being and their frequency and duration. * [24:50] How nurturing creativity is like parenting, and Jerry’s belief about pain and knowledge. * [26:17] Additional ways Jerry mitigates depressive episodes. * [27:27] A resilience-building failure. * [32:05] The importance of playing the game well. * [33:42] “Survival is the new success.” * [36:12] Jerry’s billboard. * [39:06] Enter Maria Popova. * [39:30] Are you correctly pronouncing names you’ve only read but never heard? * [41:13] What does Maria do? * [41:50] What is Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian)? * [42:31] What percentage of New York Times best sellers are a result of Maria’s coverage? * [47:55] The common denominator that guides Maria’s reading list. * [49:16] The importance of writing for an audience of one. * [52:07] Contending with the temptation to create BuzzFeed-like content. * [59:44] The daily discipline required for Maria’s well-being. * [1:07:10] Maria’s note-taking system. * [1:12:53] Seneca and the time-tested challenge of presence vs. productivity. * [1:16:08] Start-up opportunity? Build a note-taking tool for heavy readers/highlighters. * [1:22:52] About the team behind [The Marginalian*]. * [1:24:28] Collaborative proofreading and copyediting. * [1:27:21] Self-reliance pathology and how to overcome it. * [1:29:56] Finding a professional personal assistant and learning to delegate. * [1:34:36] Maria’s weightlifting regimen and favorite bodyweight-only exercise. * [1:37:22] Designing content infrastructure to be evergreen. * [1:39:28] Cutting out the commentary contrarians. * [1:46:13] Scheduling social media. * [1:48:25] Coping with email — and sometimes snail mail. * [1:50:31] How to cultivate a personal inner circle and pre-screen book review requests. * [1:54:54] What donation model works best for site revenue? * [2:01:22] Recommended reading from [The Marginalian] and parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Jerry Seinfeld:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Is This Anything? by Jerry Seinfeld
• Seinfeld | Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Jerry Seinfeld | Netflix
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee | Netflix
• 23 Hours to Kill | Netflix
• Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager | Harvard Business Review
• The Black Stallion | Prime Video
• Transcendental Meditation (TM)
• Body for Life: 12 Weeks to Mental and Physical Strength by Bill Phillips and Michael D’Orso
• An Officer and a Gentleman | Prime Video
• Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More | The Tim Ferriss Show #444
• High-Intensity Interval Training: How to Do HIIT Workouts for Weight Loss | Self
• Jerry Seinfeld Opens up about Depression and the Two Tools He Uses to Address It | Showbiz Cheat Sheet
• The Comedy Store
• Jerry Seinfeld Recalls the Legendary Comedy Promoter Who Hated Him | Cheat Sheet
• Alexis Ohanian: My Infamous “Rounding Error” Story | Twitter
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick | Amazon
• In the Heart of the Sea | Prime Video
• Jerry Seinfeld’s First Appearance on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show | NBC
• The Skinner Box or Operant Conditioning Chamber | Verywell Mind
• Hollywood Improv

Connect with Maria Popova:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Threads

• Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn | The Marginalian
• How to Make Sure Your Readers Pronounce Words and Names Correctly? | r/Fantasywriters
• Blog | Sam Harris
• Neuroscientist Sam Harris on Happiness, Spirituality Without Religion, and How to Cultivate the Art of Presence | The Marginalian
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris | Amazon
• Vino Sans Snobbery: A Charming Illustrated Scratch-and-Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert | The Marginalian
• The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert: Take a Whiff of That by Richard Betts, Wendy MacNaughton, and Crystal English Sacca | Amazon
• The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection | The Marginalian
• The Man Who Hated Semicolons | The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Cool It, Vonnegut: Rethinking the Semicolon | Litro Magazine
• 29 Dumb Things People Posted Online This Month | BuzzFeed
• Oscar Wilde on Art and Cultivating the Crucial Temperament of Receptivity | The Marginalian
• Werner Herzog on Creativity, Self-Reliance, and How to Make a Living Doing What You Love | The Marginalian
• Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin by Werner Herzog and Paul Cronin | Amazon
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• What is Malbec Wine? Plus Four Amazing Facts | Wine Folly
• What Actually Happens While You Sleep and How It Affects Your Every Waking Moment | The Marginalian
• Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep by David K. Randall | Amazon
• Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized | The Marginalian
• Tara Brach on Meditation and Overcoming FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) | The Tim Ferriss Show #94
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon
• Five Ways to Boost Productivity While on an Elliptical | CalorieBee
• Kindle Paperwhite, Oasis, Scribe, and More E Readers | Amazon
• I’m Maria Popova, and This Is How I Work | Lifehacker
• How to Build Your Own Index of Notes and Ideas When Reading Books | The Focus Course
• Maria’s Literary Jukebox | Tumblr
• On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It by Seneca | Amazon
• Good Will Hunting | Prime Video
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• The Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim Ferriss
• Tame Your Work, Organize Your Life | Evernote
• Best 10 Evernote Alternatives in 2024 | Toolfinder
• TextWrangler Is Now BBEdit | Bare Bones Software
• The Art of Timing: Alan Watts on the Perils of Hurrying and the Pleasures of Presence | The Marginalian
• Learn to Proofread Your Own Work | California Coast University
• Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress
• Corpus Callosum | 2-Minute Neuroscience
• Share a Draft WordPress Plugin | WordPress
• Stop Hating Your CMS | WordPress VIP
• Google Docs | Google Workspace
• How to Delegate Effectively: Nine Tips for Managers | Harvard Business School Online
• 80/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) | Investopedia
• Project Management Software, Online Collaboration | Basecamp
• Manage Your Team’s Work, Projects, & Tasks Online | Asana
• The Pull-Up | CrossFit
• Elevated Push-Up | CrossFit
• Bent-Knee Inverted Row | Fitness AI
• Plyometrics: Three Explosive Exercises Even Beginners Can Try | Harvard Health
• Suspension Weight Training | TRX
• Weighted Jump Ropes | Amazon
• Bulgaria in Weightlifting | Olympedia
• Sam Harris, PhD, on Spirituality, Neuroscience, Meditation, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #14
• Social Media Toolkit | Buffer
• A Manifesto for Digital Humanity | The Email Charter
• Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim Ferriss
• William Gibson on Cultivating a “Personal Micro-Culture” | The Marginalian
• Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson | Amazon
• The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love | The Marginalian
• Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm by Thich Nhat Hanh | Amazon
• Henry Miller on the Beautiful Balance of Giving and Receiving | The Marginalian
• Weekly Conversations with Non-Fiction Writers | Longform Podcast
• Showcasing and Discovering Creative Work | Behance
• How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love | The Marginalian
• The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long | The Marginalian
• Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living | The Marginalian
• Reads Tagged with “Alan Watts” | The Marginalian

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Sascha Seinfeld * Julian Seinfeld * Bill Phillips * Lou Gossett, Jr. * Hugh Jackman * Mitzi Shore * Alexis Ohanian * Adam Wright * Ron Howard * Johnny Carson * Jimmy Fallon * Naval Ravikant * Kathy Sierra * Sam Harris * Chris Sacca * Crystal English Sacca * Wendy MacNaughton * Richard Betts * Aristotle * Kurt Vonnegut * Kevin Kelly * John Romaniello * Oscar Wilde * Werner Herzog * Paul Cronin * The Three Stooges * Tara Brach * Seneca * Madonna * Sitting Bull * William Shakespeare * Alan Watts * William Gibson * Max Linsky * Scott Belsky

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #76 “Rick Rubin on Cultivating World-Class Artists (Jay Z, Johnny Cash, etc.), Losing 100+ Pounds, and Breaking Down the Complex” and episode #479 “Mary Karr — The Master of Memoir on Creative Process and Finding Gifts in the Suffering.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:11] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:15] Enter Rick Rubin. * [07:58] How Rick lost over 135 pounds in his late 30s. * [16:03] How artists can hurdle the obstacles that hinder their best work. * [19:31] Where to find world-class contemporary music. * [20:24] Approaching music production with a fan’s-eye view. * [22:53] Recommended reading. * [24:22] Helping artists break their creative blocks. * [26:54] Rick’s advice for his younger selves. * [29:06] Why practicing self-kindness isn’t just nice — it’s a necessity. * [32:01] Enter Mary Karr.* * [32:25] Growing up in “The Ringworm Belt.” * [34:44] The catalyst for Mary expressing herself and publishing to the world. * [37:47] The role reading played for young Mary. * [40:31] The feeling that inspired Mary’s desire to become a poet at a young age. * [44:27] “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” * [45:17] How Mary, a high school dropout, got into college and became an A student. * [49:13] Mary’s struggle with bringing darkness with her even after leaving her traumatic past. * [53:23] The highly selective process for getting into Mary’s graduate seminar at Syracuse University. * [54:33] The first day of Mary’s class and what it illustrates about processing memoir-building memories. * [1:00:20] The value of a commonplace book and helping others find alternative perspectives. * [1:04:19] The importance and utility of prayer in Mary’s life and sobriety. * [1:17:09] The significance of Ignatian exercises in Mary’s Catholic faith and gratitude practice. * [1:23:10] Obligatory Texas talk about weaponry and hunting. * [1:26:41] The origins of Mary’s unique wordsmithing. * [1:34:24] Mary’s process of rough drafts, revision, and using past memories for storytelling. * [1:42:34] How Mary copes with the pain of dredging up memories through writing. * [1:46:09] Why Mary feels the happiest at 65 and her advice to her younger self about therapy. * [1:49:26] The most and least effective types of therapy for Mary. * [1:53:25] Mary’s solution to fear and getting through uncomfortable times. * [1:58:14] Recognizing the gifts from suffering through difficult times in retrospect. * [2:06:28] Mary’s billboard. * [2:07:35] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Rick Rubin:

Website | Twitter | Instagram

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin | Amazon
• Barrel Saunas | Amazon
• Slow Burn: Burn Fat Faster By Exercising Slower by Stu Mittleman | Amazon
• Safe. Scientific. Sustainable. | MAF Method
• What Is Circadian Rhythm? | Sleep Foundation
• Aerobic vs. Anaerobic Exercise: Which Benefits Me More? | GoodRx
• A High-Protein Diet Plan to Lose Weight and Improve Health | Healthline
• Calorie Tracker & BMR Calculator to Reach Your Goals | MyFitnessPal
• Why Ego is The Greatest Opponent to Your Creativity and Success (And How to Fight Back) | Ryan Holiday
• The Mojo List | Mojo
• Mojo: 100 Greatest Albums Ever Made Playlist | Spotify
• The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time | Rolling Stone
• Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Podcast | Spotify
• Reign In Blood by Slayer | Amazon Music
• Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell | Amazon
• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn | Amazon
• Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201
• 10 Years of Slackline Progression | Justin Wagers
• Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012 | The University of the Arts
• How to Develop Self-Compassion and Be Nicer to Yourself | Tiny Buddha
• La Futura by ZZ Top | Amazon Music

Connect with Mary Karr:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Tropic of Squalor: Poems by Mary Karr | Amazon
• The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr | Amazon
• Cherry by Mary Karr | Amazon
• Lit: A Memoir (P.S.) by Mary Karr | Amazon
• The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr | Amazon
• Nonna (Grandma) | Daily Italian Words
• East Texas Cities, Towns, and Ghost Towns | East Texas Travel Guide
• Ringworm | CDC
• Memento | Prime Video
• Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne | Amazon
• Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White | Amazon
• Christianity: Eucharist | BBC
• The Riverside Shakespeare by William Shakespeare | Amazon
• [in Just-] by E. E. Cummings | Poetry Foundation
• The Duty of Newspapers Is to Comfort the Afflicted and to Afflict the Comfortable | Quote Investigator
• To Comfort The Disturbed, and to Disturb the Comfortable: Onward Children of the Sun by Cesar A. Cruz
• When Exactly Did Bansky Say “Art Should Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable?” | Reddit
• Macalester College
• Syracuse University
• How I Teach My Students Not to Trust Their Memories | Mary Karr, the Washington Post
• Difference Between Eidetic Memory and Photographic Memory | Better Help
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Sobriety Coin | Wikipedia
• Mary Karr Thought Her Whiting Award Call Was a Prank and Hung Up | Literary Hub
• What Are the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius? | Loyola Press
• The Jesuit Mission: Seeking God in All Things | Georgetown University
• Electile Dysfunction: The GOP’s Incredible Shrinking Boehner | Slate
• US Results: How Will This Endless Election End? | BBC News
• 99 Questions to Complete Your Examination of Conscience | The Catholic Company
• Steve Kornacki and John King Are the Election Coverage MVPs We Need Right Now | For the Win
• “Most Likely to Secede” | Tim Ferriss, Instagram
• Rifle Build: 7mm Remington Magnum | Guns and Ammo
• Glock 34 | Glock
• M&P 45 M2.0 | Smith & Wesson
• The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Steven Rinella on Hunting (and Why You Should Care), Reconnecting with Nature, Favorite Trips, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #470
• Boar Hunting with a Knife is Not for the Faint of Heart | Wide Open Spaces
• ‘Lit’ by Mary Karr: The Top 10 Everything of 2009 | Time
• Raining Like a Cow Pissing on a Flat Rock | Tony Goff
• More Colorful Texas Sayings Than You Can Shake a Stick At | Texas Monthly
• Iambic Pentameter Made Easy | Shakespeare Coach
• Mary Karr Interview: Boss of Memoir | The Writer
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Amazon
• My Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464
• D-Day: The Allies Invade Europe | The National WWII Museum
• Battle of the Bulge | The US Army
• US Forces Liberate Buchenwald | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Why Is Quitting Smoking So Difficult? The Science Behind Addiction | American Lung Association
• Commencement Address by Poet Mary Karr | Syracuse University News
• ‘Honeydew’ Turns Road Trip into Bizarre, Hallucinatory Backwoods Nightmare | Bloody Disgusting

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Stu Mittleman * Philip Maffetone * Mo Ostin * David Heber * The Beatles * Neil Strauss * Slayer * Stephen Mitchell * Lao Tzu * Jon Kabat-Zinn * Laird Hamilton * Neil Gaiman * Stephen King * ZZ Top * Charlie Marie Moore Karr * Pete Karr * William Shakespeare * Prince Hamlet * Romeo and Juliet * Macbeth * Richard III * Lady Macbeth * Janis Joplin * Michael Joplin * E.E. Cummings * Banksy * Cesar A. Cruz * Finley Peter Dunne * Colin Kaepernick * Doonie * George Saunders * Arthur Flowers * Juno Diaz * Stanley Kunitz * Devereux Milburn * Steve Kornacki * Steven Rinella * Phil LaMarche * Lev Grossman * Mark Twain * Dr. Phil * Don DeLillo * Leo Tolstoy * Dana Spiotta * Lecia Karr

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SHOW NOTES [06:27] Notes about this supercombo format. * [07:30] Enter Jocko Willink. * [07:59] What separates good leaders from mediocre or bad leaders? * [10:01] Identifying good leadership candidates. * [11:46] Teaching the skill of detachment. * [16:58] Jocko’s grueling workout that made platoons “tap out.” * [18:46] Jocko’s morning rituals. * [20:57] People Jocko associates with success. * [23:12] Recommended reading. * [26:57] How does discipline equal freedom? * [31:50] Enter Sebastian Junger.* * [32:21] Thomas Paine and Stoic philosophy. * [34:25] The “chainsaw story” and its impact on Sebastian’s writing career. * [38:27] Athleticism and long distance running. * [39:00] Developing a writing style. * [40:46] Sebastian’s attraction to journalism. * [46:22] Sebastian’s writing style and the importance of structure. * [55:51] Commencement speech advice for high school graduates. * [59:09] Sebastian’s inspiration to visit war-torn countries. * [1:01:14] Explanation of “skin walkers.” * [1:05:00] Striving for political correctness in gender. * [1:11:43] The Iroquois’ peace process and its relevance to modern politics. * [1:19:15] Psychiatric effects of war. * [1:22:07] Bringing primitive, war-time cohesion into modern society. * [1:27:28] PTSD, the C-Train, and returning to New York City after war. * [1:32:24] The lonely nature of society. * [1:36:24] PTSD prevalence in elite special forces units vs. support units. * [1:41:30] How to “support the troops.” * [1:47:47] How a Viking helmet started — and stopped — a barfight in Spain. * [1:53:16] Developing male closeness while decreasing violence. * [1:59:05] Veterans becoming victims in society after returning from war. * [2:03:27] Photography/videography habits and Sebastian’s start as a war reporter. * [2:07:45] Tim Hetherington’s story and Sebastian’s decision to stop war reporting. * [2:11:02] Sebastian’s future writing plans. * [2:12:04] One thing anyone can do for a military veteran. * [2:16:14] Who comes to mind when Sebastian hears the word “successful?” * [2:16:46] Defining courage. * [2:16:52] Most gifted books. * [2:17:46] What close friends say Sebastian is exceptionally good at. * [2:18:09] Combining three writers to create the ultimate writer. * [2:18:47] Advice to Sebastian’s younger self. * [2:20:07] Recent purchase with the most positive impact on Sebastian’s life. * [2:22:16] Something Sebastian believes, despite being unable to prove it. * [2:22:23] Disliked habits and common practices of journalists. * [2:23:39] Advice from Sebastian’s 70-year-old self to his current self. * [2:24:48] Knowing when to write a book. * [2:26:53] Sebastian’s billboard. * [2:28:22] Final requests for the audience and parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Jocko Willink:

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Threads

• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Amazon
• Jocko Podcast
• Echelon Front
• Victory MMA
• Why Humility is Essential to Effective Leadership | BuildWitt
• Dichotomy of Leadership is the Answer (Clip) | Jocko Podcast
• The Dichotomy of Leadership: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Amazon
• What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It) | HBR
• Detach And Broaden Your Field of View (Clip) | Jocko Podcast
• Battle of Ramadi (2006)
• SQT – SEAL Qualification Training | Navy SEALs
• The Terminator | Prime Video
• Guide to Waking up Early (Clip) | Jocko Podcast
• Preaching the Pull-Up: Dead-Hang vs. Kipping | Proactiveoutside
• The Ring Dip | CrossFit
• Coaching the Clean and Jerk | CrossFit
• The Overhead Squat | CrossFit
• The Front Squat | CrossFit
• The Back Squat | CrossFit
• The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives | Tim Ferriss
• The Burpee | CrossFit
• The Hang Clean | CrossFit
• Eight Metabolic Conditioning Workouts for MMA Fighters | Onnit Academy
• About Face by Colonel David H. Hackworth | Amazon
• Interview with Col. David Hackworth | People’s Century, Guerrilla Wars, PBS
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy | Amazon
• Meet John Joel Glanton: The Scalp-Hunting Mercenary Who Terrorized The Old West | ATI
• Jocko Willink: The Relationship Between Discipline and Freedom | Forbes
• Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual Mk1-MOD1 by Jocko Willink | Amazon

Connect with Sebastian Junger:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger | Amazon
• War by Sebastian Junger | Amazon
• Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger | Amazon
• Other Books by Sebastian Junger | Amazon
• Restrepo
• Sebastian Junger: Why Veterans Miss War | TED Talk
• Sebastian Junger: Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard to Come Home from War | TED Talk
• Sebastian Junger: By the Book | The New York Times
• Sebastian Junger Is Done Talking About War | Outside
• The Path of Most Resistance | Outside
• Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson | Amazon
• What Is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started | Daily Stoic
• Stoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss
• Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Amazon
• The Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master + On Groundless Fears (Letter 13) | The Tim Ferriss Show #134
• Towing the Line by M. Sebastian Junger | The Boston Phoenix
• Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Inc.
• John McPhee, The Art of Nonfiction No. 3 | The Paris Review
• Scrivener | Literature & Latte
• Skin-Walkers | Paranormal Investigation
• Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) | The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Early English Settlers Believed to Have Assimilated into Tribes | Indianz
• Native American Influence on the Founding of the US | ThoughtCo.
• Pontiac’s War | Wikipedia
• Did the Blitz Really Unify Britain? | BBC News
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiesse | Amazon
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiesse | Amazon
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Marc Alan Lee * Michael A. Monsoor * Ryan Job * David Hackworth * Walter Cronkite * Molly Ferriss * Josh Waitzkin * Bobby Fischer * Thomas Paine * Seneca * Stuart Krichevsky * Tim Hetherington * Ernest Hemingway * John McPhee * Joan Didion * Peter Matthiessen * William Faulkner * Yuval Noah Harari * Naval Ravikant * Cormac McCarthy * Daniela Petrova * James N. Mattis * Émile Durkheim * David M. Maddox * Seth Moulton * Martin Luther King, Jr. * George Washington * Ben Franklin * Ahmad Shah Massoud * Muammar Gaddafi * Adolf Hitler * Obwandiyag (aka Pontiac) * James Patterson * Cus D’Amato * Mike Tyson

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #421 “Dr. Jane Goodall — The Legend, The Lessons, The Hope” and episode #145 “The Interview Master: Cal Fussman and the Power of Listening.”

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Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [04:48] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:51] Enter Dr. Jane Goodall. * [06:19] Connecting with Louis Leakey and becoming his secretary. * [09:43] Gaining acceptance among chimpanzees. * [13:09] Primate personalities, compassion, and the story of Old Man saving Marc Cusano. * [17:34] Observations of chimpanzee compassion and violence, and inferences about human nature. * [19:19] Explaining variance in chimpanzee attitudes toward dominance. * [20:55] Cultivating hope to overcome apathy. * [26:19] Mr. H, Gary Haun, the indomitable human spirit, and overcoming adversity. * [29:37] Dr. Goodall’s billboard. * [31:20] Enter Cal Fussman.* * [32:56] Quincy Jones’ unique book signing practice. * [34:19] Cal’s pivotal childhood moment. * [38:55] Deconstructing the skill of asking great questions. * [42:43] Contrasting interview styles from different life stages. * [48:25] University of Missouri Journalism’s role in Cal’s career. * [52:24] Drinking with Hunter S. Thompson and Johnny Depp. * [55:45] Cal’s start in international travel (and my family trip to Iceland). * [1:06:34] How a single question got Cal six months of lodging. * [1:14:45] Common mistakes and lessons learned about the art of asking questions. * [1:23:30] Honing the ability to tell stories. * [1:27:11] A life-changing event at the end of Cal’s travels. * [1:31:43] Perfecting the conversational interview. * [1:33:43] Speaking at Summit at Sea. * [1:46:15] What Mikhail Gorbachev taught Cal about the art of the interview. * [1:55:45] Boxing Julio César Chávez. * [2:30:31] Why Alex Banayan and George Foreman define success for Cal. * [2:42:58] Most gifted books. * [2:49:47] Favorite documentaries and movies. * [2:55:37] Cal’s billboard. * [2:56:08] Advice to Cal’s 30-year-old self. * [2:59:05] Overcoming writer’s block with Harry Crews’ advice. * [3:18:56] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with The Jane Goodall Institute:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

Connect with Roots & Shoots:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Leakey and Goodall: Scientists Who Changed How We Define ‘Human’ | Jane Goodall’s Good for All News
• Gombe Stream National Park | Global Alliance of National Parks
• Jane | Prime Video
• Flo, Flint, David, and Goliath: The Famous Chimps of Gombe | Jane Goodall’s Good for All News
• Compassion: The Chimpanzee Who Saved a Life | Lessons for Hope
• Drive-Through Safari | Lion Country Safari
• Some Apes Jane Goodall Studied Fought a Years-Long War | AV Club
• Did Jane Goodall Compare Donald Trump’s Actions to Primate Dominance Behavior? | Snopes
• The Power of One by Jane Goodall | Time
• The Shocking River Fire That Fueled the Creation of the EPA | History
• 15 Animal Species Miraculously Saved from Extinction | BestLife
• Jane Goodall Always Travels with a Stuffed Animal Named Mr. H to Remind Her of the ‘Indomitable Human Spirit’ | CNBC
• Blind Artist: Introspective and Memory Recollections: Introspective and Memory Recollections by Gary J. Haun | Amazon
• Richard Turner — The Magical Phenom Who Will Blow Your Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #411
• Best of What I’ve Learned | Esquire
• Big Books: Esquire: The Meaning of Life: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder From 65 Extraordinary People | The Austin Chronicle
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro | Amazon
• The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro | Amazon
• Did Muhammad Ali Throw His Olympic Gold Medal into the Ohio River? | Sports Detectives, Smithsonian Channel
• “Just Take Me to Jail:” Remembering Muhammad Ali’s Refusal to Fight in Vietnam | Democracy Now
• Muhammad Ali’s Astounding Bursts of Physical Brilliance by Cal Fussman | Esquire
• Missouri School of Journalism | University of Missouri
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Prime Video
• Monpazier, Dordogne: One of the Most Beautiful Villages in France | North of the Dordogne
• The Northern Lights in Iceland | Visit Iceland
• Your Next Adventure Is At Our Doorstep | Hotel Rangá
• Founded 1975 | Llywelyn’s Pub
• Dorf Tirol/Tirolo in South Tyrol | Instagram
• On Finding a Lost Ezra Pound Poem in a Castle | The Paris Review
• What Is Goulash? | Cooking School
• The Five Best Things to Do in Kiskunhalas | Tripadvisor
• Stay with Locals and Meet Travelers | Couchsurfing
• Sting Explains That Whole Tantric Sex Thing | VCR
• Fortaleza, Brazil: All You Must Know Before You Go | Tripadvisor
• What I’ve Learned: The Meaning of Life According to 65 Artists, Athletes, Leaders & Legends by Esquire | Amazon
• Summit at Sea
• 3,000 Millennials on a Cruise Ship: An Insider’s Look into Summit at Sea 2015 by Loic Le Meur | Medium
• The Art of the Interview by Cal Fussman by Loic Le Meur | Medium
• The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change by Adam Braun | Amazon
• Dr. Dre: What I’ve Learned by Cal Fussman | Esquire
• Mikhail Gorbachev: What I’ve Learned by Cal Fussman | Esquire
• Every Journey Starts with “What If…?” by Cal Fussman | Medium
• Rocky | Prime Video
• Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran 2 Full Fight | Batman Boxing
• When I Was 19 Years Old… by Alex Banayan | Instagram
• Foreman vs. Frazier at 50: Revisiting the Shocking, Iconic Heavyweight Title Fight | Andscape
• Ali vs Foreman: Rope-A-Dope Explained | The Modern Martial Artist
• Moorer vs. Foreman | Fight Source
• Books by Cal Fussman | Amazon
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez | Amazon
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Amazon
• Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History’s Greatest Speakers by James Humes | Amazon
• Ronald Reagan | NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame
• 11 Fireside Chats (F. Roosevelt) | The American Presidency Project
• Cinema Paradiso | Prime Video
• Man on Wire | Prime Video
• The Walk | Prime Video
• The Intern | Prime Video
• ‘The Walk’ Morpheus VR Experience Makes You Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers | Road to VR
• Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes by Frans de Waal | Amazon
• Sideways | Prime Video
• A Feast of Snakes: A Novel by Harry Crews | Amazon
• Car: A Novel by Harry Crews | Amazon
• The Complete Guide to the Alexander Technique
• The Barbecue! Bible by Steven Raichlen | Amazon
• Drinking at 1,300 Ft: A 9/11 Story About Wine and Wisdom by Cal Fussman | Esquire
• Louis Leakey
• Mary Leakey
• David Greybeard
• Old Man
• Marc Cusano
• Frodo
• Fifi
• Freud
• Goblin
• Mr. H
• Gary Haun
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• James Carter
• Ted Kennedy
• Jeff Bezos
• Richard Branson
• Jack Welch
• Robert De Niro
• Clint Eastwood
• Al Pacino
• George Clooney
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Tom Hanks
• Bruce Springsteen
• Drew Pinsky
• Quincy Jones
• Woody Allen
• Barbara Walters
• Pelé
• Yao Ming
• Serena Williams
• John Wooden
• Muhammad Ali
• Larry King
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• John F. Kennedy
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Robert Caro
• Juanita D. Roberts
• Edward Norton
• Carmelo Anthony
• Julio César Chávez
• Hunter S. Thompson
• Johnny Depp
• Frank Deford
• Gary Smith
• David Halberstam
• John A. Walsh
• Toni Morrison
• Donald Trump
• Wolfgang Puck
• Dr. Dre
• Ezra Pound
• Harry Crews
• George Foreman
• Joe Frazier
• Pernell Whitaker
• Michael Moorer
• Angelo Dundee
• Ronda Rousey
• Thomas Hearns
• Harold Weston, Jr.
• Juan Laporte
• José Sulaimán
• Roberto Durán
• Sugar Ray Leonard
• Mike Tyson
• Alex Banayan
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Petra Němcová
• Adam Braun
• Leroy Moorehead
• David M. Granger
• Ta-Nehisi Coates
• James C. Humes
• Ronald Reagan
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Sting
• Billy Joel
• Christie Brinkley
• Philippe Petit
• Robert Zemeckis
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Tiger Woods
• Jesus
• Newt Gingrich
• Steven Raichlen
• Jack LaLanne
• Michael Buffer
• Jocko Willink

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #37 “Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Performance, and Mastering Money” and #373 “Jerry Colonna — The Coach with the Spider Tattoo.”

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Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:00] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:03] Enter Tony Robbins. * [06:27] Tony’s daily routines. * [07:28] Cryotherapy. * [10:55] Priming. * [15:04] Tony’s ideal music for meditation. * [16:20] Richard Branson’s first pre-investment questions. * [17:05] What a 50% investment loss actually means. * [17:42] The Paul Tudor Jones 5:1 strategy. * [18:36] How Kyle Bass taught his kids about investing with nickels. * [21:34] What the world’s best investors know for certain. * [24:00] Enter Jerry Colonna. * [24:21] Jerry’s spider tattoo origin story. * [30:03] The 2002 Olympic bid meeting that changed Jerry’s life. * [35:47] Jerry’s suicide attempt at 18 and his psychiatric hospital stay. * [37:06] The difference between responsible and complicit in Jerry’s life in 2002. * [39:55] Three important questions from Jerry’s therapist. * [41:02] Something important Jerry needed to say but didn’t during this time. * [42:39] How Jerry overcame self-doubt and unanswerable questions. * [44:46] Jerry’s path to coaching and three influential books. * [51:46] How much of Jerry’s coaching stemmed from focusing outside himself and healing his younger self. * [53:12] Convincing high-achievers of the importance of self-discovery. * [54:10] Jerry’s first question: “How are you really feeling?” * [57:11] Working with the chronically busy. * [59:40] Examining my handling of busyness, saying “No,” and related difficulties. * [1:09:40] Three basic risks we all try to manage: love, safety, and belonging. * [1:13:06] Tools, books, and approaches for setting boundaries and saying “No.” * [1:14:50] “All beings own their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depend upon their actions, not my wishes for them.” * [1:16:11] A boundary tool that acknowledges compassion from a distance. * [1:17:30] The challenge is in the meaning assigned to a situation before applying a tool. * [1:18:11] Dealing with vexing “Newman” personalities in our lives. * [1:22:56] Moving from intellectual agreement to behavioral change. * [1:25:26] Benefits of journaling for personal growth. * [1:27:33] Guilt vs. remorse. * [1:28:12] Marie Ponsot, the crow, and letting the crow speak in the journal. * [1:32:00] Jerry’s bedtimes, mornings, and journaling process. * [1:35:09] Journaling for accepting life’s totality and our inner “multitudes.” * [1:37:14] Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance*. * [1:37:41] Using Marvel’s Hulk and Thor to understand and reconcile parts of oneself. * [1:42:39] A difficult but life-changing decision Jerry made to say “No.” * [1:49:19] Advice for anyone at a similar junction. * [1:51:07] Using journaling and meditation to cope with anxiety and inner turmoil. * [1:54:43] Learning about loving kindness (metta) meditation. * [1:56:49] A new behavior or belief that improved Jerry’s quality of life. * [1:58:36] Jerry’s billboard. * [2:00:55] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Tony Robbins:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Threads

• Money — Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins | Amazon
• Life Force: How New Breakthroughs in Precision Medicine Can Transform the Quality of Your Life and Those You Love by Tony Robbins, Peter H. Diamandis, and Robert Hariri | Amazon
• Awaken The Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Financial Destiny by Tony Robbins | Amazon
• Cryotherapy | Wikipedia
• Whole Body Cryotherapy | Cryohealthcare
• How Should I Start Each Day? What’s Priming? | Tony Robbins
• Controlling the Breath to Control the Mind | Himalayan Institute Online
• Tony Robbins: Hour of Power | Fast Company [Breathwork at 1:10:30]
• Meditation, Mindset, and Mastery | The Tim Ferriss Show #201
• Sir Richard Branson — The Billionaire Maverick of the Virgin Empire | The Tim Ferriss Show #272
• Invest Like a MultiBillionaire: Asymmetric Risk/Reward | Tony Robbins
• Eight Paul Tudor Jones Trading Quotes That Will Change Your Trading | Forex Mentor Online
• Kyle Bass’ Big Nickel Bet | Moneyness
• Dive Into Scrooge McDuck’s Money Bin at D23 Expo | DisneyD23
• What Is Asset Allocation and Why Is It Important? | Investopedia

Connect with Jerry Colonna:

Reboot.io | Twitter

• Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna | Amazon
• J.P. Morgan Partners | Crunchbase
• Flatiron Partners | Crunchbase
• InformationWeek Magazine
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson | Amazon
• What is Ecopsychology? | Gatherings
• Argiope Aurantia (Black and Yellow Garden Spider) | Spider ID
• Iktomi: Native American Spider-Trickster Spirit Whose Stories Teach Moral Values | Ancient Pages
• JetBlue Airlines
• Emotional Ups and Downs After 9/11 Traced in Report | The New York Times
• Union Square Ventures
• For Those Who ‘Worked The Pile’ At Ground Zero, Horrors Of Sept. 11 Haven’t Faded | NPR
• 142 Of The Funniest New Yorker Cartoons Ever | Bored Panda
• Canyon Ranch
• The Jamaica Hospital Nursing Home
• Creedmoor State Hospital | Asylum Projects
• Cabrini Medical Center | Wikipedia
• Being Complicit | And Now This
• The Benefits of Suffering and the Costs of Well Being: Secondary Gains and Losses | MentalHelp.net
• New York Times Corrects Misquote of Thoreau’s ‘Quiet Desperation’ Line | Poynter
• The Bhagavad Gita
• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron | Amazon
• Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by Sharon Salzberg | Amazon
• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer | Amazon
• The Dharma: The Teachings of the Buddha | Religious Literacy Project
• Internal Family Systems
• Life and Teachings of Jesus | Religious Literacy Project
• Burning Man
• This Man Makes Founders Cry | Wired
• The Reality of Imposter Syndrome | Psychology Today
• What is Karma? | The Yogic Encyclopedia
• The Center for Nonviolent Communication
• Seinfeld Saying “Newman!” | YouTube
• The Living Art of Bonsai | Bonsai Empire
• Who said, “Those Who Mind Don’t Matter, and Those Who Matter Don’t Mind?” | Quote Investigator
• Guilt vs. Remorse | HuffPost
• How to Cage the Monkey Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #175
• Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think | Wait But Why
• The Artist’s Way Morning Pages Journal by Julia Cameron | Amazon
• The 7 Levels of Consciousness | Tiny Buddha
• Song of Myself by Walt Whitman | University of Toronto Libraries
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon
• City Living: Bensonhurst, Brooklyn’s Little Italy, Is Now Teeming with Diversity | AMNY
• Market Crashes: The Dotcom Crash | Investopedia
• Know Your Brain: Amygdala | Neuroscientifically Challenged
• Metta Meditation (aka Loving Kindness Meditation) | Metta Institute
• Jack Kornfield Wants You to Love Yourself by Tim Ferriss | Outside
• The Klingon Hamlet by The Klingon Language Institute | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Jim Rohn * Russell Simmons * Richard Branson * Paul Tudor Jones * Kyle Bass * Scrooge McDuck * Ray Dalio * Carl Icahn * Peter Thiel * Carl Jung * Bill Plotkin * Iktomi * Fred Wilson * Brad Burnham * Dr. Avivah Sayres * Mary Anne MacLeod Trump * Mike, Sam, and Emma Colonna * Ralph Waldo Emerson * Henry David Thoreau * Gautama Buddha * Ani Pema Chodron * Sharon Salzberg * Parker J. Palmer * Jesus * Seth Godin * Newman * Jerry Seinfeld * Dr. Seuss * Marie Ponsot * Tim Urban * Julia Cameron * Walt Whitman * Tara Brach * Hulk * Thor * Jeff Walker * Jack Kornfield

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #361 “Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath” and #380 “Ed Zschau — The Polymath Professor Who Changed My Life.”

Please enjoy!

Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotifyListen onOvercast#741: Jim Collins and Ed ZschauThis episode is brought to you by AG1! I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG1 further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.

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This episode is brought to you by LMNT! What is LMNT? It’s a delicious, sugar-free electrolyte drink mix. I’ve stocked up on boxes and boxes of this and usually use it 1–2 times per day. LMNT is formulated to help anyone with their electrolyte needs and perfectly suited to folks following a keto, low-carb, or Paleo diet. If you are on a low-carb diet or fasting, electrolytes play a key role in relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness.

LMNT came up with a very special offer for you, my dear listeners. For a limited time, you can get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase. This special offer is available here: DrinkLMNT.com/Tim.

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep! Temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep, and heat is my personal nemesis. I’ve suffered for decades, tossing and turning, throwing blankets off, pulling them back on, and repeating ad nauseam. But a few years ago, I started using the Pod Cover, and it has transformed my sleep. Eight Sleep has launched their newest generation of the Pod: Pod 4 Ultra. I’m excited to test it out. It cools, it heats, and now it elevates, automatically. With the best temperature performance to date, Pod 4 Ultra ensures you and your partner stay cool, even in a heatwave. Plus, it automatically tracks your sleep time, snoring, sleep stages, and HRV, all with high precision. For example, their heart rate tracking is at an incredible 99% accuracy.

Pod 4 Ultra also introduces an adjustable Base that fits between your mattress and your bed frame to add custom positions for the best sleeping experience. Plus, it automatically reduces your snoring when detected. Just add it easily onto any bed.

And now, listeners of The Tim Ferriss Show can get $350 off of the Pod 4 Ultra for a limited time! Click here to claim this deal and unlock your full potential through optimal sleep.

What was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.

SHOW NOTES [05:00] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:03] Enter Jim Collins. * [06:28] How Jim’s students influenced his entrepreneurial path. * [10:45] Why Jim carries a three-timer stopwatch. * [12:21] Using a spreadsheet to optimize discipline in service of creativity. * [13:42] Ideal minimum creative hours per year. * [15:19] Avoiding a life-distorting “funk.” * [17:41] Calculating an optimal end point. * [19:27] Patterns discovered using Jim’s time-tracking method. * [20:23] Three crucial components for living the life Jim wants to lead. * [22:18] The bug book and the hedgehog concept. * [30:31] Peter Drucker mic-drop lessons. * [34:39] Enter Ed Zschau.* * [34:59] How I convinced Dr. Zschau to let me into his Princeton engineering course. * [37:38] Ed’s background in competitive figure skating and the lessons it taught him. * [41:45] The origin of Ed’s meticulous attention to detail. * [45:31] The benefits of learning by doing through the case method. * [49:21] Ed’s definition of entrepreneurship. * [50:50] The role of optimism in entrepreneurship and life. * [53:30] Ed’s aspirations as a teenager and young adult. * [55:32] What drew Ed to Princeton as an aspiring physics philosopher. * [58:21] How Ed got into teaching and his belief that career planning is overrated. * [1:03:37] How Ed learned to become a good teacher and the influence of extemporaneous speaking. * [1:06:53] Lessons from extemporaneous speaking competitions about preparation and adaptation. * [1:11:04] Ed’s thoughts on focusing for extended periods versus opening himself to opportunities. * [1:13:06] Ed’s decision to run for Congress. * [1:17:57] Advantages of committing to a maximum of three terms in the House of Representatives. * [1:21:29] Ed’s experience and self-reflection after losing his Senate race. * [1:23:40] Ed’s decision process when transitioning from investor to CEO. * [1:26:05] Differentiating between high-impact commitments and peer pressure. * [1:29:41] Comparing Ed’s parenting style to his teaching style. * [1:31:17] Ed’s belief in encouragement over direction and his own upbringing. * [1:34:45] The origin of Ed’s goal to live a life that matters. * [1:37:05] Influential books and recommendations for aspiring entrepreneurs. * [1:42:05] Ed’s current excitement and efforts to make higher education affordable through technology. * [1:48:37] The mantra by which Ed lives his life and his childhood nickname. * [1:50:57] How Ed brings the sound of music to his endeavors. * [1:57:34] Ed’s influence on others to continue his work of changing the world. * [1:59:40] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Jim Collins:

Website | Twitter | Facebook

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t by Jim Collins | Amazon
• How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins | Amazon
• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen | Amazon
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras | Amazon
• Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by James Collins and William C. Lazier | Amazon
• Thelma and Louise | Prime Video
• Stanford University
• Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins | HBR
• Concepts: The 20-Mile March | Jim Collins
• A Thousand Hours of Creativity by Jonathan Eastwood | LinkedIn
• Jim Collins’ Happiness Spreadsheet | Accidentally Retired
• Operations Research/The Simplex Method | Wikibooks
• The Hedgehog Concept | Jim Collins
• Straight from the Hedgehog’s Mouth: Management Guru Jim Collins | The Irish Times
• Ten Lessons I Learned from Peter Drucker | Jim Collins
• Drucker Day Keynote with Jim Collins | The Drucker Institute
• Sierra Nevada College
• System Industries
• IBM
• ELE 491: High-Tech Entrepreneurship | Princeton University
• Harvard University
• Caltech
• University of Nevada, Reno
• Reader’s Digest
• StarTek
• US House of Representatives
• Brentwood Associates
• The TECH Interactive
• University of San Francisco
• California Council on Science and Technology
• Omaha Knights | Ice Hockey Wiki
• 10 Versions of Murphy’s Law for Universal “Truths” | ThoughtCo.
• “If You Fail to Prepare, You Are Preparing to Fail” | Quote Investigator
• Case Method Teaching | Stanford University
• Harvard Business School
• Stanford Graduate School of Business
• The McPhee Syllabus | The Millions
• Kant’s Views on Space and Time | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity: A Simplified Explanation | Space
• Newton’s Views on Space, Time, and Motion | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• The Devastating Impact of the 1961 Plane Crash That Wiped Out the Entire U.S. Figure Skating Team | Smithsonian
• Officer Candidate School (OCS) | US Navy
• Extemporaneous Speaking: Things to Know | ForCom
• 113 Extemporaneous Speech Topics | My Speech Class
• Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr’s Duel | American Experience, PBS
• American Electronics Association | NNDB
• How Silicon Valley Hacked the Economy | The Nation
• House Committee on Ways and Means | GovTrack
• 1986 United States Senate Election in California | Wikipedia
• Zschau Named CEO of Censtor, a Disk Maker | Los Angeles Times
• Boy Scouts of America
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson | Amazon
• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | Amazon
• Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies by Derek Lidow | Amazon
• The Walmart Museum
• Income Share Agreements: What Students Should Know Before Signing | Nerdwallet
• Lambda School
• Mission Impossible | Prime Video
• The Steps of the Simplex Algorithm | HEC Montreal
• My Way by Frank Sinatra | Amazon Music

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Bill Lazier * Joanne Ernst * Jerry Porras * George Dantzig * Rochelle Myers * Peter Drucker * Benjamin Franklin * John McPhee * Immanuel Kant * Albert Einstein * Isaac Newton * Richard Feynman * Aaron Burr * Alexander Hamilton * Jonathan Sachs * William A. Steiger * Alan Cranston * James Wei * Thomas Edison * Abraham Lincoln * The Wright Brothers * Walter Isaacson * Steve Jobs * David McCullough * Derek Lidow * Sam Walton * Doug McMillon * Batman * Robin

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #355 “Greg McKeown — How to Master Essentialism” and episode #536 “Diana Chapman — How to Get Unstuck, Do “The Work,” Take Radical Responsibility, and Reduce Drama in Your Life.”

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Bios of guests may be found at tim.blog/combo.

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SHOW NOTES [05:26] Notes about this supercombo format. * [06:28] Enter Greg McKeown. * [06:49] What is non-essential? * [07:46] Overcoming the planning fallacy. * [13:30] The problem with taking ownership of someone else’s problems. * [15:44] How to avoid committing to the unsustainable. * [21:26] Three rules. * [25:28] The personal quarterly offsite. * [33:05] Enter Diana Chapman. * [33:22] A transformative gift. * [36:56] The Drama Triangle. * [43:36] The whole-body yes (or no) and how it can serve us. * [46:06] Diana guides an experience to help pay better attention to our whole-body yes (or no). * [54:36] Observations made during the exercise and how Diana recommends using this inventory. * [1:01:39] Fostering playfulness for those who mute their desire to celebrate. * [1:08:28] Diana’s “black belt in practicing candor.” * [1:09:37] Diana’s thoughts on loving pressure and how to bring it into a relationship. * [1:13:24] Applying loving pressure to people you don’t know well. * [1:15:08] Diana’s guidance on introspection leading to perspective shifts; using Byron Katie’s “turnarounds.” * [1:17:48] Diana guides me through a turnaround. * [1:23:58] A turnaround’s purpose is to identify and embrace alternatives, not invalidate the inspected belief. * [1:29:06] The importance of introducing the somatic into the process; suggestions for difficulty with this step. * [1:31:47] The role of the witness in this process. * [1:33:54] Walking the line. * [1:35:40] Welcoming the opportunity to learn from the experience, even if it’s not preferred. * [1:37:35] Alternative tools for dysregulation in the moment. * [1:39:31] Risks Diana and her husband Matt took to keep their relationship vital; who initiated the first difficult conversation. * [1:45:11] How Diana figured out who she needed to be during this time. * [1:47:11] Navigating decision points together as a couple. * [1:49:42] Examples of commitments from The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership*. * [1:53:22] The Mind Jogger app and how Diana uses it with the commitments. * [1:55:55] Assessing self-awareness in hiring interviews applied to non-job situations. * [1:57:53] Books most gifted. * [1:59:35] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Greg McKeown:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown | Amazon
• Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown | Amazon
• The Greg McKeown Podcast
• Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim Ferriss
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | Amazon
• The Planning Fallacy Can Derail a Project’s Best Intentions | The Washington Post
• Why You Start Things You’ll Never Finish | The New York Times
• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend | Amazon
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker | Amazon
• Quarterly Personal Offsite Meetings | Dennis Kennedy

Connect with Diana Chapman and the Conscious Leadership Group:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube

• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp | Amazon
• Q&A with Diana Chapman on Conscious Leadership | Criteo
• Hendricks Institute
• Karpman Drama Triangle | Wikipedia
• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Timothy Ferriss | Amazon
• Jim Dethmer — How to Shift from Victim Consciousness, Reduce Drama, Practice Candor, Be Fully Alive, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #434
• Mind Those Q’s | Think Shift
• Whole Body Yes | The Conscious Leadership Group
• Miracle (2004) | Prime Video
• The Work of Byron Katie
• Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide | Tim Ferriss
• Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month | Tim Ferriss
• Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict by Tsultrim Allione | Amazon
• Mind Jogger for iOS | LeStro’s Apps
• How to Assess Self-Awareness in a Hiring Interview | Conscious Leadership Group Blog
• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks | Amazon
• Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks | Amazon
• The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity by Gay Hendricks | Amazon

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Henry Cloud * Oprah Winfrey * Peter Drucker * Dustin Moskovitz * Gay Hendricks * Katie Hendricks * Stephen Karpman * Jim Dethmer * Byron Katie * Matt Chapman

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODESHOW NOTES [06:06] Notes about this supercombo format. * [07:09] Enter Brené Brown. * [07:30] Changing in a lasting, meaningful way. * [08:03] Is self-accepted complacency possible? * [10:53] My woo confession about a crux skill. * [13:06] Narcissism: the shame-based fear of being ordinary. * [14:06] Efficacy isn’t always efficient. * [15:48] Pathology as armor that can’t be discarded. * [16:28] What are you unwilling to feel? * [17:04] Discarding armor that no longer serves us. * [21:26] Curiosity as midlife’s superpower. * [22:53] There’s trauma for all of us. * [23:33] An 80/20 marriage hack. * [25:18] Decisions in a family-focused family. * [27:04] Parenting from compliance to commitment. * [29:31] Enter Edward O. Thorp.* * [29:54] Edward’s background, and what drew him to apply mathematics to gambling. * [37:04] Edward’s first blackjack trip to Vegas, reference materials used, and his meeting with Claude Shannon at MIT. * [40:13] Edward and Claude devised a method to beat roulette using the first wearable computer, according to MIT. * [42:16] Despite being 89, Edward looks great for his age; he discusses his approach to staying in shape over the years. * [50:22] Edward explains how he got into finance and investing, and the people he met along the way. * [59:25] Edward shares what convinced him that Warren Buffett would one day be the richest man in the world after their first meeting. * [1:03:58] Edward discusses the frameworks he would teach in an investing seminar for modern students, including those without a strong math aptitude. * [1:08:52] Edward shares lessons learned from investing that are transferable to other areas of life. * [1:11:02] Edward, a long-term thinker at 89, offers advice for those who struggle to think beyond the short-term. * [1:15:40] Edward explains how he discovered something suspicious about the Madoff brothers’ business practices 17 years before others caught on. * [1:24:17] Exploring mental models of externalities, the tragedy of the commons, and fundamental attribution errors. * [1:33:32] Edward recommends reading and listening material for those who want to enact positive change in the world, politically or evolutionarily. * [1:38:51] Edward shares which investors, besides Warren Buffett, impress him and why. * [1:42:52] Edward discusses how he balanced growing a business with personal life and what led him to wind things down. * [1:47:56] Edward defines independence and shares how he spent his time after winding down the investment side of his life. * [1:49:30] Edward shares what he’s particularly curious about learning at the moment. * [1:51:40] Reflecting on a conversation between Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut, and other parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Brené Brown:

Website | Unlocking Us Podcast | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn

• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
• What Self-Awareness Really Is (and How to Cultivate It) | HBR
• Narcissism and Other Defenses Against Shame | Psychology Today
• Rush
• Brené Brown on Vulnerability and Home Run TED Talks | The Tim Ferriss Show #100
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon
• Understanding the Significance of Pandora’s Box | ThoughtCo
• The Midlife Unraveling | Brené Brown
• Topo Chico Mineral Water | Amazon

Connect with Edward O. Thorp:

Website | Twitter

• Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon
• Beat the Market: A Scientific Stock Market System Edward O. Thorp and Sheen T. Kassouf (PDF) | ResearchGate
• A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. Thorp | Amazon
• University of California
• How to Play Blackjack | Vegas How To
• Blackjack Basic Strategy Chart by Edward O. Thorp | Chasing the Frog
• Kelly Criterion | Investopedia
• A Brief Journey Inside the IBM 704 | Archival History of Computing at MIT
• National Academy of Sciences
• A Favorable Strategy for Twenty-One by Edward O. Thorp | ResearchGate
• American Mathematical Society
• The Stockpicker’s Burden, and Other Lessons | Barron’s
• How a Math Professor Led a Revolution in Las Vegas | RTD
• How to Play Roulette | Vegas How To
• 10 of the Best Compound Exercises for Muscle and Strength | Openfit
• Aerobics Program for Total Well-Being: Exercise, Diet, and Emotional Balance by Kenneth H. Cooper | Amazon
• Yes, Race Walking Is an Olympic Sport. Here’s How It Works. | Vox
• New Mexico State University
• Stock Warrants vs. Stock Options | Investopedia
• Black-Scholes Model | Investopedia
• Cboe Global Markets
• How Warren Buffett Made Berkshire Hathaway a Winner | Investopedia
• Equity | Investopedia
• Market Efficiency | Investopedia
• Risk | Investopedia
• Preventing the Spread of the Coronavirus | Harvard Health
• The 4% Rule | Investopedia
• Cryogenics | Wikipedia
• Meet the People Who Want to Live — And Keep Their Wealth — Forever | Policy Genius
• Global Management Consulting | McKinsey & Company
• Collar | Investopedia
• The Card Sharp Who Cottoned onto Madoff’s Fraud in 1991 | Forbes
• Madoff Investment Scandal | Wikipedia
• Bear Stearns | Wikipedia
• National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) | Investopedia
• Why Can’t You Go Faster Than Light? | Fermilab
• Externality | Investopedia
• Svante Arrhenius, the Man Who Foresaw Climate Change | OpenMind
• Tragedy Of The Commons | Investopedia
• Elon Musk Thinks Every Child Should Learn About These 50 Cognitive Biases | Inc.
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger | Amazon
• Psychology of Human Misjudgement According to Charlie Munger | LinkedIn
• Fundamental Attribution Error | Ethics Unwrapped
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | Amazon
• Carbon Tax | Wikipedia
• Moral Foundations of Politics by Ian Shapiro | Coursera
• The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It by Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro | Amazon
• Who Lost Biden’s Agenda? Democrats Offer Competing Theories for Failure of ‘Build Back Better’ | NBC News
• Poll Finds 96 Percent Support Social Security | AARP
• The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio | Amazon
• Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama | Amazon
• The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama | Amazon
• A Quantitative Investment Management Company | Renaissance Institutional
• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman | Amazon
• Leading Global Market Maker | Citadel Securities
• Princeton Newport Partners | Wikipedia
• Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood by Marsha Sinetar | Amazon
• Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Amazon
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller | Amazon
• Kurt Vonnegut on the Secret of Happiness: An Homage to Joseph Heller’s Wisdom | The Marginalian

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Tara Brach * Esther Perel * Steve Alley * Herbert Hoover * Claude Shannon * John Selfridge * Tom Wolfe * Kenneth H. Cooper * Sheen T. Kassouf * Warren Buffett * Fischer Black * Myron S. Scholes * Nassim Nicholas Taleb * Robert C. Merton * Jim Cramer * Peter Madoff * Bernie Madoff * Albert Einstein * Charlie Munger * Svante Arrhenius * Garrett Hardin * Elon Musk * Daniel Kahneman * Ian Shapiro * Joe Biden * Ray Dalio * Francis Fukuyama * Jim Simons * Kenneth C. Griffin * Frank Meyer * Marsha Sinetar * Joseph Heller * Kurt Vonnegut

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #298 “Dr. Gabor Maté — New Paradigms, Ayahuasca, and Redefining Addiction” and episode #153 “The Man Who Studied 1,000 Deaths to Learn How to Live.”

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODESHOW NOTES:

• [05:37] Notes about this supercombo format.
• [06:57] Enter Gabor Maté.
• [07:22] Compassionate inquiry and trauma vs. traumatic.
• [11:06] Self-reconnection resources.
• [14:40] How Gabor benefits from yoga.
• [16:27] Gabor’s thoughts on the therapeutic value of psychedelics.
• [18:14] What’s been revealed by Gabor’s experiences with ayahuasca?
• [25:32] Essential intention.
• [26:30] We don’t respond to what happens, but to our perception of what happens.
• [32:48] Enter BJ Miller.
• [33:07] What does BJ do?
• [35:32] What does the first meeting look like for a new patient at the Zen Hospice Project?
• [37:18] Defining palliative care.
• [40:54] What happens when a patient dies in Zen Hospice compared to a regular hospital?
• [45:03] How many deaths has BJ experienced?
• [45:42] What has observing hundreds of deaths taught BJ about living?
• [50:39] On keeping a mindfulness or meditation practice.
• [55:05] About the Dinky (a terrifying story of electrocution).
• [1:04:29] The miracle of a snowball in the burn ward.
• [1:07:48] BJ’s experience as an undergraduate student at Princeton.
• [1:08:46] On the idea of art.
• [1:14:46] How BJ would support someone who suffered injuries similar to his own.
• [1:16:57] What helps people most in hospice care?
• [1:21:22] Why cookies matter.
• [1:23:12] Thoughts on the use of psychoactive compounds in end-of-life care and treating existential suffering.
• [1:33:46] BJ’s secret habit that might surprise most people.
• [1:38:32] Suggested material for an introverted hospice patient.
• [1:45:04] What comes to mind when BJ hears the word “successful?”
• [1:48:13] Daily practices for seeing good in people.
• [1:51:00] How to ride a motorcycle when missing three limbs.
• [1:55:01] What purchase of $100 or less has most positively affected BJ’s life?
• [1:56:53] BJ’s billboard.
• [1:58:24] BJ’s advice to his 30-year-old-self.
• [1:59:58] What has BJ changed his mind about in the last few years?
• [2:01:26] BJ’s requests/asks/suggestions of the audience.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Dr. Gabor Maté:

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté | Amazon
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté | Amazon
• Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg | Amazon
• Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté
• Are We Mislabeling Our Trauma? Why Dr. Gabor Maté Believes We Need to Change the Way We Think about Pain | CBC
• Trauma Is a ‘Stupid Friend’ That Our Minds & Bodies Don’t Forget: Dr. Gabor Maté | CBC
• The Wisdom Of Trauma with Dr. Gabor Maté
• Traumas of Omission | Complex Trauma Resources
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick | Amazon
• Peter Levine on Trauma Healing: A Somatic Approach | Psychotherapy.net
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Emotional Freedom Techniques | The Tapping Solution
• Sensory Integration Therapy | Wikipedia
• Yoga | Wikipedia
• Sadhguru Opens Vancouver Physician Gabor Maté’s Inner Eye to Benefits of His Yoga Program | Georgia Straight
• Inner Engineering
• The Drug of Choice for the Age of Kale (Ayahuasca) | The New Yorker
• The Profound Power of an Amazonian Plant – And the Respect It Demands | The Globe and Mail
• The Trauma Doctor: Gabor Maté on Happiness, Hope and How to Heal Our Deepest Wounds | The Guardian
• Take the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Quiz — and Learn What It Does and Doesn’t Mean | NPR
• You Can’t Always Control What Happens, But You Can Control How You React To It | Collective World

Connect with BJ Miller:

Website | LinkedIn | Twitter

• BJ Miller ’93: Wounded Healer | Princeton Alumni Weekly
• BJ Miller: What Really Matters at the End of Life | TED Talk
• Design Thinking Sprints for Social Impact | OpenIDEO Challenges
• Adam Gazzaley: The Maverick of Brain Optimization | The Tim Ferriss Show #83
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach | Amazon
• Princeton Dinky | NJ Transit
• 7 Tips for City Stargazing from Chicago’s Park Astronomer | The Trust for Public Land
• The Trip Treatment | The New Yorker
• A Bridge to the Relinquished Parts of Self and Society | The RiverStyx Foundation
• Heffter Research Institute | Wikipedia
• Our Vision Is a World of Mental Well-Being | COMPASS Pathways
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
• Kurt Vonnegut Once Told a Story About Buying One Envelope at a Time | Snopes
• Waiting For Guffman | Prime Video
• Kentucky Fried Movie | Prime Video
• Grizzly Man | Prime Video
• Upgrade Your Resolutions | Scuderia West
• Roots in the Past, Stakes in the Future | Joseph Swan Winery
• Symptom Management Service | UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Be an Advocate | Hospice Action Network

PEOPLE MENTIONED* Peter Levine * Sadhguru * A.H. Almaas * Gautama Buddha * Adam Gazzaley * Justin Burke * Michael Rabow * Mark Rothko * Jackson Pollock * Kurt Vonnegut * Ludwig van Beethoven * Oprah Winfrey * Deepak Chopra * Mert Lawwill

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This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited. The episode features segments from episode #97 “Naval Ravikant — The Person I Call Most for Startup Advice” and episode #341 “Nick Kokonas — How to Apply World-Class Creativity to Business, Art, and Life.”

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODESHOW NOTES [04:34] Notes about this supercombo format. * [05:53] Enter Naval Ravikant. * [06:05] On uncompromising honesty. * [08:05] What Naval looks for when deciding to invest in a founder. * [11:03] Recommended reading from outside the startup world. * [18:38] Who Naval considers successful. * [21:02] Cultivating non-judgmental awareness. * [26:08] How to replace bad habits with good habits. * [29:31] Naval’s advice for his younger self. * [32:01] Naval’s billboard. * [35:46] Enter Nick Kokonas.* * [36:05] Is pressure Nick’s default setting, or are perceived risks an illusion? * [36:55] How do behavioral economics and Richard Thaler influence Nick’s approach? * [41:38] Nick’s transition from philosophy to finance; was philosophy an asset? * [42:43] Why Nick’s professor gave him shorter assignments than classmates. * [44:57] Nick’s introduction to trading; dumbing down academics for clerk job. * [46:42] Why philosophy majors often become traders. * [47:19] Why Nick is glad he didn’t pursue an MBA in 1992. * [48:41] Why Nick thinks his professor singled him out from his peers. * [52:52] Recommended books for aspiring entrepreneurs without philosophy background. * [57:31] Did being a Merc clerk meet Nick’s expectations? * [1:00:02] How Nick followed his father’s entrepreneurial model in trading. * [1:04:38] Why Nick left his mentor after a year to start his own company. * [1:05:41] How Nick and employees trained to quicken mental agility for trading. * [1:08:17] The moment Nick realized he could thrive in trading. * [1:09:02] Recommended resources for becoming a better investor. * [1:11:22] Nick seeks out “high, small hoops” for investment risks. * [1:14:00] Do businesses fail due to difficult model or lack of due diligence? * [1:16:55] When and why Nick decided to enter the restaurant business. * [1:18:26] The dinner leading to Nick and Grant Achatz’s partnership. * [1:27:52] Why Nick chose to open a restaurant out of many risky options. * [1:30:33] How Nick spots talent early that others notice late. * [1:34:07] Questioning restaurant conventions like candles and white tablecloths. * [1:37:09] A now-famous chef was Alinea’s first customer. * [1:38:03] Nick and Grant wouldn’t let designers override their ideas. * [1:38:47] How Nick contributed effectively as a restaurant industry newcomer. * [1:14:19] Why Nick was “horrified” when Alinea won Best Restaurant in 2006. * [1:43:50] Grant’s cancer diagnosis; writing a book and revolutionizing reservations. * [1:45:28] Traditional restaurant reservation systems and Nick’s improvements. * [1:57:17] Bickering at press dinner; avoiding Next becoming “Disneyland of cuisine.” * [2:02:14] Reservation software problems; variable pricing based on day of week. * [2:05:48] The moment Nick realized “This is the best thing I’ve ever built.” * [2:07:41] Why the reservation system’s rewards were worth the asymmetric risks. * [2:10:16] Using Marimekko charts to visualize restaurant and sponsorship data. * [2:16:57] The next industry Nick wants to disrupt: truffles. * [2:18:55] Illuminating black boxes. * [2:26:24] Self-selection of job roles; how Nick’s hiring process has changed. * [2:32:01] Systems Nick uses to cope with a lot of email. * [2:37:43] Importance of engaging on social media, even if unable to respond to all. * [2:39:35] What “puzzle” filters and mini-hurdles in correspondence accomplish. * [2:40:36] Comparing similarities between the music and publishing industries. * [2:49:55] The agency problem as another black box. * [2:54:58] The Hembergers, The Alinea Project, and the upcoming independent Aviary Book. * [3:01:42] A brief discussion about cocktails. * [3:05:42] Books Nick has gifted most and how he personalizes gifts. * [3:08:10] Nick’s billboard. * [3:09:49] Parting thoughts.

SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Naval Ravikant:

Naval Podcast | AngelList | Website | Twitter

• Lying by Sam Harris | Amazon
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius | Amazon
• The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti by Jiddu Krishnamurti | Amazon
• Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee | Amazon
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin | Amazon
• What Is Non-Judgmental Awareness, Anyway? | HuffPost Life
• Crumb | Prime Video
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse | Amazon
• The Lion of Olympic Weightlifting, 62-Year-Old Jerzy Gregorek (Also Featuring: Naval Ravikant) | The Tim Ferriss Show #228
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg | Amazon
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charlie Munger | Amazon