Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tool
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“And Atomic habits. You know, I mentioned it once before. There's a reason it sold twenty five million, thirty million copies”
“You could Buy books like the eighty twenty principle. By Richard Cosh”
“I have already recommended the effective executive by Peter Drucker”
“I'm reading a book right now. Called Hard Times. By studs. Turkle”
“the meta section of the four hour chef, which focuses on accelerated learning. is the most important section in that book”
“Peter T does a good job of describing these. in his book Outlive”
“Crucial conversations, I mentioned it. twice already”
“the fifteen commitments of conscious leadership also. Very much related. to This topic”
“Gay and Katie Hendricks, if you want to look up For instance, conscious loving and other books that they have penned”
“Awareness by Anthony DeMello, a book I've gifted more than a hundred times probably at this point”
“I thought about doing some live casting of the Yi Ching, the oldest of the Chinese classics”
“That comes from the book of Revelation, chapter thirteen, verse eighteen”
“Some of you will be familiar with the first book. Twentieth anniversary is coming up. in April of twenty twenty seven. And Here is my answer. Because I have been asked this in private settings and I've thought about it a fair amount. The book structure. Is laid out. As a four step process”
“Read old books. That contain principles like the effective executive by Peter Drucker. would be one that stands out”
“read books, whether that's like crucial conversations. For instance, there are many others I'll probably mention later in this Q and A podcast”
“I read a book called The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer. This was recommended to me by Kevin Rose”
“I recommend The Great Nerve, which is a book by Doctor Kevin Tracy. for diving more into that”
“what are your thoughts on the book Healing Back Pain by John Sarno”
“I wrote about it, there's an entire chapter on the Agoscu method. I'll spell that for people. E-G O G S C U E I do exercises from the Yoscu method every night before bed ... I'm gonna go back to the written questions because one of the questions Is related to the four hour body”
“it's called On Grief and Grieving. Finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss. It's by Elizabeth Kubler Ross”
“They have a book and a program called The Happy Body”
“I first read Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by someone named Steven Laberg. the v very, very beginning of high school and became very interested in lucid dreaming”
“I first met you in the the I maybe the day your first book came out, the uh work week came out”
“And the book turned out to be one of the greatest ever written, a book that has enthralled the world for over three hundred and fifty years. The prisoner was Cervantes, the book Don Quixote”
“He won the Pulitzer Prize at one point, I think for working. Might be getting the title wrong ... And Ed told me he's like Hard times is good, but if you like that, working is incredible”
“the book that I was introduced to is called Hard Times, an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression. And it was introduced to me by a Brit of all things, a great guy named Ed Cook”
“There was an entire book written about this called Moonwalking with Einstein”
“Have you heard of that that book? No. Okay. So I'm like Okay, I'll I'll I'll buy it, right? And I download it on Audible. It's damn good ... A Court of Thorn and Roses”
“I did bring up the fourth wing. Because this is one that was everywhere. I'm sure it has like a hundred thousand picture of it”
“It was Fan fiction. It was twilight series fan fiction ... And that turned into fifty shades of gray”
“My third book, Four Hour Chef, that's where it failed. It tried to do too much”
“ultimately I wrote a book called Emotional Equations, which became a New York Times bestseller”
“I'm the author of books including Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals and the Imperfectionist Newsletter”
“I'm the author of books including Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals and the Imperfectionist Newsletter”
“How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. What did that do for you? I reached the age of 54, which was eight years ago, and had never thought about psychedelics at all”
“How to Change Your Mind, a book by Michael Pollen that really shifted the tectonic plates of what was possible for psychedelics in the US and elsewhere”
“Our finish line is basically able to read easy reader books on your own. So think. Green eggs and ham, hop on pop, the elephant and piggy series”
“Our finish line is basically able to read easy reader books on your own. So think. Green eggs and ham, hop on pop, the elephant and piggy series”
“How was I introduced you as Eric Reese? I believe. Yeah. of the lean startup”
“Four hour chef. For our chef was launching in 212. I asked the same questions”
“with Tools of Titans. No, was it Tools of Titans? I also did a bunch of experiments with BitTorrent”
“Mental health And co author of A beginner's guide To the end”
“the story one of the stories that you put in Tribe of Mentors is related to My question related to”
“And the New York Times bestselling author of The gift of failure. And The addiction inoculation So I wrote The Gift of Failure was my first book”
“And the New York Times bestselling author of The gift of failure. And The addiction inoculation”
“From The line trackers got to life that Certainly. pops to mind quickly when I think about this book”
“The New York Times bestselling author of Mating in Captivity And the state of affairs”
“co author of The New York Times bestsellers Difficult conversations”
“And the best selling author of Maybe you should talk to someone”
“Sime Nosrat is the James Beard award winning author of the New York Times bestseller. Salt. That Acid heat”
“Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat Pray Love Big magic. And city of girls”
“And co author. With her husband Neil Allen. Of Good writing”
“Joy Carol Oates has written more than seventy books, including Blonde And we were the Mulvanies”
“And later created. Comedians in cars getting coffee. And wrote Is this anything”
“Mary Carr wrote the best selling memoirs. The Liers Club? Cherry and Lit”
“I read uh On Writing by Stephen King and How to Write Sci Fi and Fantasy by Orson Scottkard”
“and How to Write Sci Fi and Fantasy by Orson Scottkard”
“the meta learning section of the Four Hour Chef. I think the Four Hour Chef is a book”
“I actually interviewed one of the co authors of Getting to Yes. I think it's William Urey”
“What workouts from the four hour body are you still prioritizing in your routines”
“And then of course you have Dorian Blood and Guts. I remember having that black and white book that describes some of the training”
“There's this wonderful book in the field of neuroscience called Principles of Neural Science”
“There's a book called Bad Science by Ben Goldaker, who's an MD from the UK”
“he wrote Under Saturn shadow on the Healing and trauma of men”
“He also wrote The Eden Project about relationships and the struggle of relationships”
“The blade itself, which is uh series. It's not very long. I think it's two or three volumes by Joe Abercrombie”
“His best selling book. Getting Things Done subtitled The Art of Stress Free Productivity. has been published in thirty languages”
“I read Oswald Spingler The Decline of the West, which is one of the earliest books, you know, over a hundred years ago”
“I saw this book that said The Gateways to Spiritual Science. by Rudolph Steiner”
“I am halfway through this book called The oxygen advantage The oxygen advantage”
“One of the latest ones called The Antidote. Oliver Berkman. Fabulous book”
“listening to Byron Cady's new book, A Mind at Home With Itself”
“In financial markets, I really like this somewhat obscure book called The Aspirational Investor. by this guy Ashvin Chabra”
“Tribal leadership. By Dave Logan. Dave Logan Has it? Look at thousands of organizations and puts them into categories”
“Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, I give people”
“they wrote a book called The Tools and they have a bunch of good Packs in there”
“makes me think of the David Foster Wallace commencement speech which has been turned into books and is online in various forms. But yes, here it is right here. This is water”
“Prisc, the Zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance, but certainly towards the end got one might argue pretty loopy”
“He's the author of twenty-four books in 26 languages. We'll get to how he credits Coca for a lot of that productivity, including the Samuel Johnson Prize winning into the silence”
“And incidentally it was as I was reading and doing his eulogy that I conceived the book One River, which is a biography. Of our great professor Richard M Schultees”
“Including more money than God. Love it”
“The power law. Love it”
“And the world's banker”
“His latest book is The Infinity Machine, Demis Hasabas, Deep Mind, and The Quest for Superintelligence”
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