#769: Q&A with Tim — Reinvention, Visualization Techniques, Making “Risky” Decisions, Parenting Considerations, Intuition, New Hobbies, Dating, and More

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Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is usually my job to sit down and interview world class performers of all different types, to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books.
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Optimal minimal.
At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking. And I'll do a personal question.
Now we're seeing the time.
cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal metal skeleton.
Sure.
First foremost.
Thanks, everybody.
I really appreciate all the hosting and amazing
Celebrations and
going on around the world. It was super fun for me to be part of and to watch and to participate in. So thank you very much for all of that.
And
What I thought we would do.
is bounce back and forth between
These questions.
Here.
And I'll I'll do improv jab as improv jav. Improv jazz as we go through.
I'll pick some questions.
And then uh
We will also do some live questions. So
Why don't we start with some live questions? And then I'll hop in here and I'll answer as many questions as I can that were
pre submitted as well.
Alright.
RJ from Malaga, Spain. Believe it or not, I have some ancestors from Malaga, Spain.
One of them was killed in a bullfight. So
Be careful with the bullfights.
All right.
Here we go.
If you had to pick a topic for your podcast that I'd stick to from now on.
Topic or theme would you pick?
Yeah.
Probably reinvention.
Of different types. I think I would focus on people who have reinvented themselves instead of sticking with the tried and true groove. People who have
taken the time or the space or just the attention to step back
and re examine their assumptions, re examine the things that have worked up to this point that may not be
those things directionally that they want to continue pursuing. So reinvention, I think.
Let's see, uh Kate and Cody, how do you think about over optimization?

Today many of us have the resources to enable us to spend countless percentage of our life tweaking and attempting to optimize every little thing. I would say
that you wanna pick very carefully what you choose to optimize as a very dear friend of mine, I won't mention him by name because he might not like that, but very top one percent of one percent in terms of performer put it to me. He's like, you want to be
Incredibly
Excellent.
the best you can be in one or two things and then for everything else it's good enough.

Passing grade for everything else.
And he walks that walk and
It's got a great family.
He's a great husband and father.
Is very good.
Not the things he chooses to optimize.
And for the rest, he's not worried.
Claudine, what has brought me a ton of joy or fun recently? Archery. I've been doing a lot of archery training. Not sure if you can see my forearms. They are all
Screwed up. I was shooting both right and left handed, but find that incredibly
Joyful and meditative.
Joel. Hello, Joel. Our group had so much in common. It was so fun. Everyone wants to stay connected. They asked if there might be more opportunities for me to facilitate keeping us connected in the future.
greatest joy that I got from the
parties for the 10th anniversary and so on was how many people came together with some shared interests or curies at least who then wanted to hang out.
after the event. People who want to stay connected. That made me super, super happy. That was really the
Not so secret agenda.
all along. So that made me really happy and I'd like to explore ways that I can facilitate that without having to manage it myself.
All right. Cindy has a question. Cockpunch update, please. Yes. I have a ton of artwork and a lot of material to share.
with respect to world building.
And uh frankly, I've let perfection be the enemy of good. I've wanted to present
All this stuff in this
high production value video with all the bells and whistles and I've been sitting on this stuff for
Many months now.
And I think that is my perfectionism getting in the way of simply sharing these things. So I have lots of stuff.
to share and I need to get on that, I would say in the next few weeks. Doesn't need to be fancy, I feel at this point.

Expediting is more important than optimizing delivery.
All right.
I'm looking for questions that I can
Answer.
Oh God, worst funniest date I've been on. Yeah, we'll need another live chat.
To cover that Irina, how am I today? I'm doing really well. Beautiful day here. It's a little warm. I don't handle heat terribly well. I'm gonna go shoot arrows after this QA.
And hang out with Molly outside. I'll have her
behind the line of fire. She's a very good archery dog in that way. And a little tired. I'm not sure why. I might have a fever. I've been training really hard, so who knows? Maybe there's a bug in the food or something. I've been very tired today. It's unclear why,'cause I got plenty of sleep. So that's how I am today.
But happy to be doing the Q and A. Alright, I'll do a few
More and then I'll hop into the pre submitted.

All right, this is from Andres Andy from Buenos Aires. What place does Argentina occupy in my heart today and why? Well, I have deep affection for Argentina.
And the RGs. And I would like to get back down there.
Honestly, I recently, for the first time in twenty years, basically, went to a tango festival in Austin. So I bought new shoes. I didn't even have shoes. I haven't done tango in ages.
And I've forgotten ninety nine percent of it, which is very painful for me.
But had a blast. Just had so much fun. There's nothing like it. So I think at some point it's possible I'll go back to Argentina and do three to four weeks full immersion.
Tons of tango. Lots of steak.
and probably lots of mallbek at the same time. So I would say I'm I'm very eager to get down there, revisit it, learn of the current events and leadership in particular in Argentina, which I find very interesting.
And we'll go from there.
What type of business slash investment is the most exciting for me right now? Anything that is aligned, I'd say, and this isn't an invitation for pitches, but anything that's really aligned with my
The sort of ethos.
That I might be
looking to incorporate more in my life. So for instance, Maui Nui venison, from an ecological perspective.
from a founder perspective, husband wife team incredibly
high integrity, beautiful family, beautiful people, and also very good operators.
It's a good business, but it's also doing a lot for

The sort of native
Ecosystem.
In Hawaii. So that'd be an example of something that's I feel very aligned with, even though it's not
the kind of tech multiples that we would be used to in potential outcomes. Something I feel very good about. Also very
involved with quite a bit of climate work.
And let's just call it technology.
Intended.
to help with many of the
extreme weather and climate challenges that we're going to continue to face.
Let's see here.
Top three snacks I'm eating right now. Yeah, I mean I've Maui Nui right around the corner.
So the Maui Nui venison sticks. And then often it's some type of mixed nuts minus peanuts. And
Let's say.
Cans of lentils.
So boring, but
I find that very helpful.
There are a number of questions about AI, I would say. I largely feel
unqualified to have strong opinions about this.
But
If I invest, and I've invested in one or two.
AI focused companies.

Uh
They're very niche.
And they have some type of
at least intermediate term defensible mode. A lot of the AI stuff.
that's trained on publicly available data is just gonna get cloned as soon as it shows any traction. And
As some people may have noticed, a lot of stuff that was web three
At one point, those people have now pivoted into AI, and I'm trying to be cautious of anything that is kind of the investment sector du jour.

And there's still interesting things in web three, although I think blockchain is probably a better way to put it. And there are very interesting things in AI. But
I like to invest in what I know.
where I think I have an informational advantage and I do not think I have an informational advantage with AI.
Z uh
Question on
On a few different things. I'll pick two of these. On modern dating as a public figure, how do you navigate the complexities of modern
dating, I would say slowly and very carefully. What qualities do I look for in a partner to ensure a meaningful and sustainable relationship? Well, first and foremost, I would say the the smaller
the social media footprint, the more comfortable I am, but it also makes it very hard to find people if they're not online.
Since it's not like I'm going out to bars and just doing cold approaches.
So I would say
Discretion.
Someone who prefers a certain degree of privacy, those are those are all indicators for me.
in the positive direction for trustworthiness.
I recognize a lot of people live online, so that's just the nature of our current day.
But I look for those things.
A demonstrated ability to do hard things over longer periods of time.
I wanna know that life isn't always hard for someone. So if they're able to focus on
Let's just say.
higher education for four years at a demanding university. That doesn't automatically make them a super genius, who's perfect for me, but it shows probably they're able to focus on certain things that are challenging for extended periods of time. Same thing if they've been at jobs for
At least some jobs for
more than one or two years, if it's constantly lily pad hopping all over the place.
I don't find that to always
mean someone is very resilient.
When things get hard.
And things always get hard.
At some point. So those are a few. And then there's all the stuff you could guess. Beautiful feminine.
All that stuff. Uh
But I would say those are
Those are a few, also someone who has an identity where they feel confident in having done hard things. That's the other benefit of I would say people who have done something.
Objectively.
to the extent that it's possible, difficult, is they have a certain confidence.
that helps the whole relationship, right? I feel like you need to have a certain identity
Confidence in your own own abilities and skills and selfhood.
Self-authoring.
Before you can really be
A good partner.
I think that's the case, as as best I can tell. But I don't think I'm the last person you would want relationship advice from, but let's wait until I have it a little more figured out. On self experimentation, you're known as
Using yourself as a guinea pig.
What are the next five things I'm planning to experiment with?
I'll probably get back on like I don't do as much crazy experimentation as I used to. I am looking at some regenerative medicine.
Protocols.
possibly for helping inflammation and some of the lower back stuff, which has greatly improved since I started doing a few things, but the jury's still out, so I'm not gonna get into that yet. I don't wanna make
any prescriptive recommendations until I've really tested things.
And uh Archery training.
bunch of new types of archery training that I'm excited to play around with.
And uh beyond that
really a lot of it is just putting in the work with
things that I believe will be high leverage, like working on
Hips, internal and external rotation, and a few other things that I think
directly contribute to overall
Core and low back.
functionality for lack of a better way to put it, but nothing crazy.
in my opinion. Some of the medical stuff people might think is crazy, but it's pretty solid research that's backing this stuff, you know, ten to twenty years of research. So I don't I don't feel like it's high risk.
Let's see. What risks have I taken in the last ten years that have really paid off?
Are there any that did not pay off?
Well,
You know, the podcast we could look at as a risk, but
Risk for me is a very specific thing. So when people say this is risky, this isn't risky, I think definitions matter a lot. For me, risk is
the potential of an irreversible negative outcome.
Very few things fall in that category. So the podcast was very off the beaten path for me, but I didn't view it as risky because I could always stop doing it. I could always just hit cancel. It was low cost.
To get started, I enjoyed the process. So the outcome wasn't the only measure of success for me.
And
That was quite a divergence to pay it off.
Certainly paid off. I would say
That
I've made some good investment calls and I've made some bad investment call. So the good ones, fortunately.
more than make up for the the bad ones, but with
Let's just say web three as an example. I went very heavy.
and hard into a lot of web three and put money into a bunch of different funds and various things.
Cockpunch is an N F T project.
was successful and I set expectations, I think, properly at the beginning.
If you go back and read that FAQ, like I've delivered on all of those and I'm going to deliver
continually beyond that. I have a lot more to share and
Everyone else has run for the hill. Not everyone else, but m pretty much everyone else has run for the hills and they're like, forget about all that. No, no, forget about all that. Sleep. Sleep. They don't want anybody to remember. I don't mind at all. I took all those proceeds and donated to the foundation. The foundation
Sise Foundation is gonna do some amazing work with the whatever it ended up being, two million dollars or something, maybe a little bit more.
So a lot of good will come of that.
And
It was a huge creative catalyst for me.
And I think that without that, I wouldn't be working on a new book project right now as an example. So it checked all the boxes in terms of its objectives, but as a sector, I would say took a lot of huge hits.
On that one.
And
You live and learn. You know, I wasn't playing with money. I couldn't afford to lose, but it was it was enough that it was very painful.
So there's an experiment that didn't pan out, but there's a reason they call them experiments and not guarantees.
You gotta choose your bed sizing properly so you don't put yourself in a bad situation. All right. So that risk that have paid off. That was from Rebecca.
Andres.
currently in a moment where I don't know what to do professionally. Have you had those moments? Yeah. Right now.
Not sure. Not sure what I want to be when I grow up.
And uh some days it's really stressful, to be honest, which sounds silly, I know, but it is. I like having a plan, I like executing to plan. So the book is really the only thing that is
In my sights.
At the moment.
That looks clear.
Otherwise what I'm
Doing my best to do is try a lot of little things, little experiments, expose myself to new people, have

Exploratory conversations a week.
Or read things, listen to things I wouldn't usually read or listen to. And have confidence
because I've figured it out multiple times in the past, then I will figure it out again.
I don't need to flog myself.

Unnecessarily. I've yet to find that helpful. So
That may not be
super tactical at this point, but that's what I've been telling myself on my good days when I'm not beating the shit out of myself in my own head.
David, what is your current next project that I'm excited about?
How are you approaching it differently? So
This is the new book.
I'm actually being much more collaborative with this book than I have in the past. And that's proving to be a godsend because I have people to bounce things off of and to interact with. It's just psychologically, I think, much healthier.
at least at this point in my life, than being a lone wolf on these projects. Because lone wolf it's not a thing, by the way. Like look in nature. No lone wolf survives. Doesn't work.
So I'm uh
Using that as a broad
way to experiment. By the way, Cock Punch was a precursor to that because I worked really well.
with what you guys will see soon, with the concept art and a lot of the
collaborative writing that was done and it was awesome. It was a great process. Really had fun. It wasn't just locking myself in a cave like I'm in solitary confinement. And
That is what I'm trying to emulate.
also in the uh
Writing this new book.
So we'll see. I mean have about
Four or five hundred pages drafted. So it's gonna be another big one.
But you know, that's what I do.
We experimented with peptides. I experimented with BMP 157 or BPC 157 like 12 years ago. Long time ago. So I am
At a date.
with peptides, but I did experiment way back in the day. But I I I really need to educate myself before I can have any
Thoughts on that whatsoever.
And by the way, just as a quick aside, with anyone online
If they only have high conviction statements, if they really speak confidently all the time, be very wary of those people.
People who are being honest should say, I have no fucking idea.
All the time.
Or they should say, You know what? I'm not really sure I need to educate myself.
Everyone online should have that response a lot. If they don't.
Then you're not gonna be able to separate out the real from the fake because they're saying everything with the same high level of conviction. Be really careful about that. Okay.
What mindfulness practices do I use to prepare for high stakes presentation or performances?
I would say.
I don't let fear make me afraid.
In the sense that I really remind myself if you weren't nervous
then it would be a bigger problem. It is normal.
to be nervous before you go up. Like my hands are shaking a little bit.
I've done these things hundreds of times and I still get nervous. I still get sweaty. I still drink too much Diet Coke or coffee or whatever beforehand as a ritual, which just makes me more shaky, obviously. And it's like it's okay.
It's fine. Anyone who's going out to perform at a high level or attempting to do it at a high level is gonna be nervous. So just use it. Like Mike Tyson puked before he went on stage while on stage in the ring. Dean Martin used to puke before he went on stage. I mean these these are legends, right? I'm not saying you're gonna emulate everything about them, but
These are people who are at the top of their field. So it's okay for them. It's okay for you. So I just remind myself of that and I will rehearse my ass off. There's no mental trick you can do beforehand if you haven't prepared.
And for me the preparation is
Is
the mindfulness practice. I mean, with my TED talk, like I rehearsed it so many times into voice memo on my phone walking around. I mean hundreds of times. So by the time I got to the day of the presentation,
On the main stage at Ted, I was like, Well
I've put in the time.
the deliberate practice. I've done everything I can do.
Yeah.
So
I'm as prepared as I will ever be.
So
Let it rip. Let's see what happens. I'd say that's the mindfulness practice.
I thought about doing content more geared at kids teens.
I've thought about it. I'm not sure what the best venue is, but I am gonna be doing some experimentation.
for students. Probably older students though.
kind of university or business school level.
What am I looking to get out of the TF meetups and how can we help?
You know, that was a question. So if some folks have asked like what question came up a lot. Some of the questions are just like, Hey, how's it going? Because the interactions are so short. They're like, Hey, how's it going? Um
You know, where where are you? Where are you? Where do you want to go? And then we'd run out of time. But one of the questions was like, How can we be helpful to you?
Yeah, my answer.
was and is now.
Connect with like minded people. Do stuff in real life.
And this ties into AI.
If you want to
harness your
Humanity.
Do stuff in real life, like meet people.
Man, because the poison's coming in terms of information deluge, it's gonna
Ten X in the next.
Ten to eighteen months. And most
Minds and
Habits are not going to be ready for that.
I think it's impossible to be re-ready, but to be more resilient, I would just say do more in real life. Like connect with
Like minded people.
Try to do meetups. You can do Zoom or something like that. If you can't do live, but really
Seek out your tribe. And if those people happen to overlap with the people who came to the meetups, which was my hope.
Then great.
Like you just connect it with a bunch of people who
Might be.
of similar tribe. So I would say I would say do that.
Alright, will I plan any in person conferences? I don't have any plans right this moment. Joel, I see your note on IBS. I don't have a lot of thoughts on IBS. I apologize. I just don't know much about it.
What you could do, and I don't know if this will work, but I mean you could just use
like metamucil or citrusel beforehand. I mean it does slow gastric emptying and it does also reduce glycemic index. So if you're gonna eat a meal you know is gonna spike your glycemic index.
Side note, you can take like five of these capsules with fiber just to slow things down so that the release isn't as intense. But
I'm not a doctor. I try not to pretend to be one on the internet, but I I really don't know much about IBS, unfortunately. But I'm looking at
anti inflammatory protocols that could have an effect on this.
type of issue, but I haven't looked at it well enough.
So I don't want to give you any opinions.
Let's see.
What are some of my heresies?
I mean I think a heresy.
That I have sh
Think a lot.
of what we try to do in modern life is a very
New experiment.
So I think if we look back at older societies and they're not
All rose colored.
It's very
seductive to look back at indigenous group X, Y, or Z and say, oh, you know, they had it all figured out. They were in tune with nature. And it's like, well, if you go back, you also
Very often, even now. See.
Domestic abuse and lots of alcoholism and other issues. So it's not ever perfect anywhere, but I would say
If we look at what gives people meaning
I think we've been led astray with a lot of kind of
Brainwashing and
theory that doesn't map very well.
to anthropological
study or really just common behaviors that you see around the world that seem to have some durability.
And uh Nasim Talib talks about this a lot. So I would just say broadly thinking that
In a lot of ways individually, just in terms of like rugged individualism, we've gone off track a bit.
And that
A lot of the I'd say common ways that we plan our
careers and lives are actually at odds with ultimately what's going to give us fulfillment.
I would say.

Can unpack that more another time.

Alright, let's see.
So a couple of people asking about conferences. Maybe. Maybe at some point I'll do a conference. It would be quite small, you know, it wouldn't be more than two hundred people. So if I ever did it, it's a lot of work, frankly. And
When I did it last time, it was basically not for profit because I spent so much money on the
quality of the event.
So I don't know. I'm I'm not sure I have the energy to do it as a nonprofit.
And if it were not to be a nonprofit, it would just be stupidly expensive. It would be like
thirty grand a person or something obscene, which I would feel kinda silly.
Putting out there.
How realistic is it to consider the health span possibility?
R J to get to a hundred and fifty years old in good health.
I'm not really sure how to evaluate this, to be honest. I'm more focused these days on experiential lifespan and trying to harness
And I've spoken about this before, but trying to organize
Events gatherings of friends.
in some cases very intense physical experiences like long difficult hikes or pilgrimage trails with people I really care for.

Pack.
A few months into say a week.
Out of time.
I think that's a reliable
actionable way to extend your experiential life span.
to feel like you've basically packed 150 years into your
Let's say eighty five.
Most
Attempts. Yeah.
extending longevity in any meaningful way have all failed.
To date, right? And maybe we are, in fact, at this cusp of all these amazing discoveries that will lead us to live a really long time. Maybe that's rapamycin, maybe that's some type of time restricted feeding, maybe that is phalastatin, maybe it's who the fuck knows? You know, there's always something. There's always some new pants de Leon.
fountain of youth that people have found, especially on the internet. I'm not super bullish on that stuff.
Here's the thing I would say for myself. They're likely to fail.
So I would rather have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised.
Later than to take all these things and suffer what will most definitely
be significant side effects that we haven't foreseen with a lot of this new stuff. So
Like Fallstown, for instance, like

It basically cripples FSH and animal models. So it's like Do you really want to be infertile?
Can you reverse that after the fact? Like, yeah, great, you have eight pack and you look younger than you did eight weeks ago, but
Now your balls don't work. So I'm not ready to make that trade. You know, maybe after I have three or four kids. Sure.
But I would just be very careful with that kind of stuff. So one fifty
I mean if we're talking about
That in the next
Basically putting people on a glide path that will land them there in the next
Ten to fifteen years, I'm pretty skeptical. I mean, especially with increases in environmental toxins.
and other issues that will besiege.
humanity over the next ten to twenty years, certainly. I mean more weather issues, forced migrations, all sorts of shit.
I'm not dystopian about it, but
It should tell you something that I'm not about my personal beliefs, at least that I'm not doing a lot of that stuff.
Yeah. I mean, if you account for infant mortality and antibiotics, and then you look at say my entire family history on both sides, it's like, yeah, males tend to die around eighty five. That's just the way it goes. So I would love to live longer, but I'm not going to take a lot of unnecessary risks where I see
significant potential downside.
So long answer. I'm interested in it.
For sure. Like I track
Some of the science.

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All right. Andy Bruce, any tips on walking the Kumano Koto, taking your eleven year old son with you? That's cool. That's fun. There are a million different ways to walk this pilgrimage trail in Japan, which
Is the sister trail of the Camino de Santiago?

in Europe, those are the only two world heritage
Pilgrimage trails.
A thousand different ways you can do the Kumarokodon. It's like a
Tributaries that then filter down to the main
Shrine.
And uh

Temple because they basically took like Shinto mapping and then put
Buddhism on top of it. I would pick one that crosses
Rivers and water if you can. That's just a really pleasant feature when you're hauling ass and getting really sweaty and so on. Bring walking sticks for sure, like poles.
Especially for the downhill, you'll be walking on rock.
A lot. It's very hard on the joints, so
Nice thick heels.
you know, hoke shoes or something like that, I would suggest. Like you will feel it.
in your ankles and your knees. You know, my thought is if you're gonna do something longer, because some people will do like a week at a time or ten days at a time, you could spend months on the Kundal Kodal is do a little bit less.
Then you think you can.
each day. Like don't push it super hard because you may be then handicapped the next day. If your knee really bothers you, you're not gonna wanna put a lot of weight on that for
The next ten kilometers or twenty kilometers, right? So I'd do a little bit less than you think.
You can each day.
All right. Uh something about the tweet of the kettlebell swings is King of the Exercise. Where else can you find the King of X could be a relationships, finance, anything? Yeah, I think a lot about barbell.
approaches to life. So for instance, like high risk angel investing and then like Muni bonds, as boring and as stable as you get. Right. So it's kind of one or the other
Like high risk, high return with small amounts of money.
Or
Very stable, predictable.
Boring.
And not playing in the middle. As soon as you start playing in the middle, you're like, I'm gonna play with tech growth stocks, da da da, and then you
At least in my experience, that's how you get your face ripped off, or that's how I get my face ripped off. So I think about barbell distributions a lot, physical fitness and finance and everywhere.
Okay.
Aside from Richard Feynman, if I could bring back one person from the dead for a podcast episode, who would it be? Oh, man, there's so many, right? I'm tempted to say like Marcus Aurelius or something, but
Seneca, who knows? I mean, probably Seneca, because I've just read so much of his stuff and I'm curious if I would find the guy to be an arrogant prick or what the vibe would be in person, right? Assuming we're speaking the same language. I would be super curious about Seneca. He gets very mixed reviews, but I mean I'm once again listening to an audiobook on Anger or on Ida.
I R A.
I mean his writing's amazing. The guy's writing is amazing. But
What would it be like in person?
But I'd be like, Oh yeah, this is the uncle who talks too much. God, this guy's long winded, maybe. Ben Franklin.
I'd be interested, very interested in.
Those are a few.
come to mind. I mean, I could come up with a hundred more for sure, but those are two off the top of my head. Do I have any mentors that I contact regularly for life advice? This is from Jeff
I found in midlife that I really missed out on having fatherly mentors in my twenties and thirties. Yeah, there are. I talked to one this morning.
In fact, he's early seventies, very healthy.
really takes care of himself, great marriage, close to his kids, and I think he has grandkids now.
So we did a check in for about an hour today. Caught up.
And
This is a good reminder for me to do that more often.
So I do feel good about that.
Let's see.
Hola.
This is one of my thoughts on ayahuasca and antidepressants.
You've been doing ayahuasca for thirteen years, only just started taking antidepressants. Unsure if I should mix both.
This is from Brazil. You need to be very, very, very careful. So ayahuasca plus certain antidepressants like SSRIs can cause a potentially fatal serotonin syndrome. So you need to be very, very, very careful with that. So I would absolutely
Speak with doctors about that. I would not mix them until you get the go ahead.
from doctors and I I imagine a psychiatrist who prescribe the antidepressants. I'd be very careful with that. Ayahuasca is one of the
one of the riskier compounds, at least of the let's call it classically known psychedelics with respect to combining with antidepressants. So I'd be very careful with that. And
Side note, I learned not too long ago that people who were taking lithium
should really not screw around with psychedelics. A lot of adverse events have been reported, at least with some of the classical
Let's just call it.
Not entirely tryptamine, but
L S D, psilocybin, et cetera. So if you're taking higher doses of of lithium now.
There are some
Ways that could be conflated because if people are taking lithium, what are they taking it for? They might be taking it for any number of conditions that would be contraindicated with psychedelics in the first place. So
Who knows? But I wouldn't mix lithium with these things either.
Alright.
How can you incentivize someone to mentor you? I'm not sure how to do that. I think you need to be a really good student, number one.
He said no money possible. I mean I frankly I pay for it.
A lot. I mean, I have friends.
Well
learn from me and I learn from them and they're older than I am and I consider them mentors.
But
At the end of the day, I actually find it.
In some ways cleaner.
To just pay someone.
And
If you wanted to get mentorship that isn't expensive, like maybe you go to Toastmasters or you join
The EO, like entrepreneurs organization or YPO. It depends on what you're looking for. But like mentors don't need to be expensive.
at all. I have a mentor in Archery and he's also kind of a mental performance coach.
Doesn't need to break the bank. So I would say
Yeah, you can go to your local YMCA and find a coach in some sport and
If they're good at all at anything, they will have life lessons for you.
Especially if they're a bit older. I would say that's my advice for the moment.
Do I babysit sometimes for some of my friends? I mean not really babysit, but like I'll watch their kids for a little bit or like
watch a Disney movie with their kids, like young kids. How did I find it? I think uh look I think I'm a kid at heart. So for me
Animals and kids are
I don't want to say easy.
But especially if they're little.
I find them pretty easy.
I think when I
If I

hope at least. If they get to the point where they're like
Petulant.

Kind of like mean spirited

Kids really just being assholes. I think I'll have a hard time with that.
I think I will have a hard time once they like know which buttons they're pushing and they're just like drilling it in. That I'm gonna have trouble with. But like little kids who just think
are disregulated and lose their shit because
They haven't developed their prefrontal cortex. Like yeah.
I can deal with that pretty well.
Let's see my opinion of this is from Judy GLP one medications. This would be like Munjaro or Azempic.
GLP.
Want agonists.
Believe they're in clinical trials now for depression slash anxiety. Yeah, I haven't looked at them specifically for that. Did put up a blog post recently from Johan Hari on GLP one specifically. So if you want to get some of the science and also a firsthand report of that, I would just go on Tim.blog and search Johan G O H A N N.
Last name Har A H A R I
All right, so this piece of artwork.
You know, people love this. I love it too. I bought this for eighty dollars.
at an antique warehouse in the middle of nowhere. I saw it and I just loved it.
Crab it? I'm
I love it every time I see it. Maybe it's less. Sixty, sixty bucks, eighty bucks at an antique warehouse. Yeah, it's one of my favorite pieces of art. That's a turkey tail.
Love it.
There are a lot of turkeys around here. Or not tail. Turkey feather.
All right.
For agents, book agents, and stuff, last time I checked, which was a long time ago, Publishers Marketplace is a great place to look. Also find books that are kind of in the same category.
or van as yours, look at the acknowledgements and you'll very often see the agent there. And then you can reach out to them directly through something like Publishers Marketplace or
These days a lot of these agents or agencies have their own websites.
Thoughts on how to approach making some great in person connections. Yeah, I would look at my talk I gave it South by South West, which
had the title How to Build a World Class
network in record time something, clickbaity like that, but it actually delivers.
I would check that out.
Yeah.
Alright, this is Dolan.
Stolen. Okay, the last set was from Claudine. Thank you for those.
This one's from Dolan, if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Basically anything that I would like to talk about that I haven't had an opportunity to talk about yet. For instance, my interest slash journey in connecting with animals and nature, maybe some insights for my personal exploration of psychedelic and nonordinary states of consciousness over the last ten years. So
I have
Probably a thousand pages of notes on all this.
And at some point I feel like that might be the most important book that I write but it's gonna be
It's gonna be a lot.
to put it together. So in a way, the book I'm doing now where I'm collaborating is sort of a possible warm up for that. Cause I d I don't think it's a book that I would want to do by myself. It would just be such a heavy lift.
And uh
Yeah, we'll see.
We shall see. But
I think if I if I talk about that at some huge length.
It'll probably be in a book, I'd want to think about it,'cause it'll get so strange. It will get so unbelievably strange.
Number one, first all the scientific regulatory
On the radar.
Above the line.
logistical stuff that I want to handle.
in the psychedelic therapeutics world, I want to handle first.
Because if I ever write this book, it is gonna get so weird that
At least twenty percent of the people who read it are gonna think I'm completely insane. It'll just be so strange. I wouldn't want it to damage
My
current credibility that I have to get things done.
in those worlds. Including some of the stuff with animals, man. It gets
If you talk to people who've like been in this stuff for
Let's just say culturally for hundreds or thousands of years, it's not weird, but to most folks, it's gonna sound pretty fuck weird.
Which I get excited about. But
I'm gonna wait until I'm like, you know what, I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks because it's not gonna interrupt anything else I'm doing. I don't care.
Then maybe that book. But it's gonna be a little while.
All right.
This is from Andres. I'll paraphrase here.
Basically I'm very rational and methodical.
Uh
decision making and so on. Rational approach is ad admirable, but
Sometimes being irrational or spontaneous can inject a lot of energy and fun. Have I found space for rationality to play a a role in my life?
The irrational and emotional.
For decisions and if so
Have they ever led me to alter my well thought out plans for the year? So
I would say yes.
I don't know if a rational would be.
The word I would use because you have like
Let's take moral. I don't know what the proper word would be here, but you have
You have moral behaviors, you have immoral behaviors.
And let's just call those.
non moral behaviors, then you have amoral behaviors that are kinda like
In this no man's land. So I would say if you have like rational
Irrational.
The opposite. Then there's like a rational. I don't think that's a word, but somewhere in the middle where it's not
Yeah.
driven by logic. It's driven more by feeling. I'm doing more and more of that these days.
For sure.
I mean our
sort of evolved.
System here.
With lots of
Valuable apparatus.
for navigating reality pre dates.
Language by
At least this kind of language.
Five.
Millions of years. So yes. I found space for that. Although I'd be very careful about
I see this quite a bit in Austin and places like it, where there's this like neo new agey stuff where people are like, I'm just using my intuition.
And
I think
very often that is used by people who just want a justification for doing what they want to do.
Or doing something that is easier than the hard thing and they're like, Well, I'm just using my intuition, right?
Intuition is interesting to me when it points you in a direction you didn't expect.
Let's just say you go on a date.
And on paper they're perfect and you're like, I'm gonna love this person. And then you meet them and you're like, Mm.
Something's a little weird here. Like I want to like them, but
This isn't right. That's where intuition is valuable.
Or like a business deal. Everything looks perfect and then there's something about it like oh my gut just
Doesn't feel right.
That's where intuition is.
Interesting.
If you're like this all looks perfect on paper and
You know what? Even though all my friends are telling me it's a terrible investment, my intuition tells me to do it. Like that's where I'd be like, Well, wait a minute here.
Is this just a
Confirmation bias.
What are my thoughts on blogging in the age of AI? I mean look.

AI is amazing.
It's really incredible. But writing for me is a way of clarifying my own thinking. And I do think that taking the time to craft words without the assistance of AI is helpful. I might use AI to
Get past the blank page.
But I think it's seductive as a drug.
And
Just like most people can't tell direction without Google Maps now.
I think it's very possible, almost inevitable, that people will lose certain faculties that they currently have.
by overusing AI. So
We shall see.
But I plan on doing more writing.
Mm-hmm.
I have not used Binoral Beats. I am very interested.
In that actually
Just reminded me somebody owes me something on buy normal beats.

So if you have any recommendations for what types of binaural beats, let me know.
Let's see.
Four hour dog training.
Yeah.
Maybe.

Never say never.
Best thousand dollars I've spent lately. I mean it was more than that, but on the archery training. It's always
Something like that.
It's very rarely stuff. I mean sometimes it's stuff. Like there's a
I bought an extra so right PSO.
Alright T.
And a mini
Rumble roller that I can travel with.

And those have been amazing.
for just like rolling out my glutes and
Performis and my legs and stuff before bed really helps with sleep a lot. But that's like
I don't know. A hundred bucks?
Hundred and fifty?
I buy very
Well, I try to buy very little stuff.
just ends up causing me more stress as clutter around my house than the value that it adds.
So I try to get rid of a lot of stuff.
Good question of the was the last thousand dollars worth of
Clutter that.
Gave me the most relief when I gave it away. That's what I should think about.
Am I aware of Javier Milet? I think that's how you say his name in Argentina. I am.
I've actually listened to some of his speeches. Pretty interesting stuff. I don't know enough about him, but a a number of my friends are are big fans, so need to do more research.
Best thing that I spent an ass load on. What's the best thing I spent an ass load on?
Not to get too technical, would be a family trip. I took my parents and brother and his wife on a trip around Europe.
And um that was definitely an ass load of cash. But I think that was good.
Good investment. I'd recommend everyone read something called the tail end.
By Tim Urban.
That is a good investment of time.
It's very short.
Alright.
Do I like painting, not sketching as a hobby. I haven't learned how to paint.
I would like to dabble in
Ideally watercolor, I think, but
Do I have any quick tips for getting up to 10 to 20 minutes on the acupuncture, Matt?
Yeah, that's
For people who are
Curious.
The Nayoya Acu pressure mat, I think.
Or other there are a lot of imitations that I'm sure are just as just as good. I don't
go to twenty minutes typically, but like 10 to 15, if I'm gonna do it. The first three minutes are gonna be torture. So you just have to get through the first like three to four minutes.
Is my experience. Otherwise I don't have I don't have much to tell you. It can be pretty intense.
Thoughts on dating apps.
Oh man.
This is like
Warren Buffett covering his eyes and like pointing towards Wall Street.
Half the people are gonna have terrible experiences.
I don't know, to be frank. I mean I I think hinge has been one of the better options so far. I think that in terms of just quality, people have to pass some hurdles and add some information.
The league is pretty interesting also because you can search by interest, which is so critical. I don't know why you can't do it on any other app, but you can search for like skiing or whatever to find somebody who has similar interests. But the league is really only effective in certain cities. It's not used widely.
everywhere, but like in a place like New York City or LA or whatever, you could find people.
You are
Pretty well educated. Interesting.
But a downside is
People tend not to use it that frequently. So you might have a great match and they don't see your message for six months. So
Go figure.
It's a jungle out there, folks. Be careful.
And there are a lot of people catfishing.
So
Watch for that too. Do a video call before you meet up with someone.
What's my favorite science fiction movie and why? Big fan of the second dune.
movie, frankly. Ex Bakina, I remember really enjoying. There are a lot of great science fiction movies. I think her was fantastic. And you know, at the time it seemed insane. And it's basically already there. If you look at the latest editions of ChatGPT.
And so on. Things like replica.

With a K replica.
Yeah, hers, basically.
Already here. It's pretty nuts.
Mm. Give me a second.
Taking a note. Thank you for the binaural thing. Brainwave Smart Mind. Okay, I'll check it out.
With
questions about cock punch. It'll it'll be more interesting once I r release
The rest.
Of the stuff or a bunch of it.
Then you'll have a lot more to chew on.
And I'll give you a foreshadowing. It's not really a foreshadowing.
It is a statement that I hope is a statement of fact, and that is I will have some fan fiction writing competitions like elimination.
Competitions.
And so
that will reward people who really dig into the details.
They'll also have to

Claudine.
Have I let the enormity of ten years of TFS really land, not just from a metrics POV, but from a positive kindness deepening, etc. human level. It's been such a force for good in the light in this world. Thank you.
Claudine, that's very kind of you to say. I would say that
I
Did you get it?
When the celebrations were happening.
But
I could do a better job.
I could do a better job of sitting with that. So thank you for the reminder. It's easy for me to just like
move on, like, yeah, yeah, good job, but like you just did your job. So don't get too happy with yourself. And like, what's next? What's next? Right. Like, yeah, you did your job.
And
That's fine. But like don't get too smug about it or self satisfied. But I find that can be very self defeating.
Right. So I did take time to celebrate.
For the tenth anniversary. I had a great time.
the in person meetup in Paris was great and it was really fun to in person
hear the stories from people who are
Deeply affected by the podcast. So
Thank you for the reminder.
I will
Take a moment today to revisit that. Thank you.
I should travel to meet girls. Well, I mean, why was I in Europe for six to eight weeks?
Who knows? Maybe it was related to that.
Is it possible that my mood improved during this Q and A? Yeah, it's entirely possible. I was exhausted, guys. I'm not gonna lie at the beginning of this.
But I enjoy these interactions. So it is certainly possible that my mood improved as a function of my energy going.
Uh.

So thanks for that, everybody. Where do I see myself in thirty years? Good Lord. I don't know. Hopefully not six feet under. We'll see.
I'll be thirty years I'll be forty no seventy six.
Seventy seven? Fuck. So
I don't know, hopefully I'll be doing
Black Diamond Skiing because uh we found the fountain of youth.
Have you suggested a workout routine as mags for my parents, if not
What would it potentially look like? How would you approach it? Yep.
I would say super slow protocol. Look up Ken Hutchins and the super slow protocol. And yeah, my dad's lost.
I don't know, eighty pounds, like let's call it 40 kilos in the last year. So he's made a lot of progress. That's slow carb diet.
It's all straightforward from four our body.
And then super slow.
As applied.
in very basic terms is minimum five seconds up, five seconds down. So if you're doing a pressing movement.
Five seconds. Slow.
Right. Up.
Five seconds to have one set. What set to concentric failure.
Yeah.
Could be even slower. Could be 10 seconds up, 10 seconds down.
But especially an elderly, quite effective for building muscle mass.
And increasing bone density without injury.
So
That is probably what I would
I mean that's what I prescribe to my parents.
That plus walking to the extent that it's possible, right? Kind of barbell once again. With slow carb diet as the glue that holds everything.
Together.
How do I record a podcast while walking?
Yeah.
This right here.
This is
ETH M fifty X.

It's an audio technica headset. It has a USB C attachment. Plug that into your iPhone.
And then you can use Riverside or some other app.
There are a lot of different ways to record.
All right. Let's see here.
This is from Mariana. Over the years I've followed and learned from you and your guests. I've heard you say several times that I'm interested in parenting. Have you ever considered being a single parent family by choice? I too, for many years, was trying to find the perfect partner until I turned forty one and my doctor told me it was time to unfreeze my eggs since I was still single and look for the partner.
decided my best option was to be a single parent. So I got a non anonymous donor and had my son when I was forty three. He's almost six now. We travel the world together, could not be happier with the drama free life we have.

Just wishing to see you fulfill your parenting dream and wondered if I would consider this option too. Yeah, I would consider it.
I would consider it. Yeah, I think for a long time it was no.
But
I would consider it.
I would. I mean, of course ideally I would have
The partner, but
I would consider it. Yeah, it's not off the table.
But I'm still
Fighting the good fight.
getting back into the dating as much as I'm just like, Fuck, this is a young man's game doing this online dating bullshit.
Ha ha ha.
Frankly, just the communications burden is so much.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
Anyway, but to answer your question, yeah, it's on the table.
For me.
Joel, I see yours. One of my big goals is to create the world's first coffee mug to sell for more than a million dollars. I like that.
I like that as a goal.
I don't really have a great
recommendation for how to chip away at it. You could look at from a PR perspective, at least, people who have
You know, sold pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge or
sold hamburgers that are like gold plated.
Or like have
have some type of gold on them for like three hundred dollars at some pizza joint, right? And the reason they're doing it is to get attention for everything else. So what I would say is you could think about selling a million dollar coffee mug.
And make that your pass fail or
you could come up with a compelling
argument for why a coffee mug
Particular mug.
should sell for a million dollars.
And then use that as a PR hook to bring attention to everything else that you're doing.
Which is
Probably quite a bit easier.
But
If you do that and someone buys it, great.
Fantastic. You did it.
You sold one for a million bucks. Now
That said, if that is the only measure of pass fail
Then
It's extremely binary, but if you were to use it as a means by which you draw attention to everything else that you're doing, then I think it's pretty interesting.
So
There you have it.
Have I been to Brazil? Yes, I've been to Brazil.
Five or six or seven times actually. All over the place, in fact.
How big is my staff?
Pretty small.
Few people, two, three people, four
Yeah, something like that. Three or four, I guess, at this point.
From Hussein in Toronto.
After the tenth anniversary, I tried to organize a follow up meeting, however, I had to cancel due to little interest. I'll try again at the end of the summer. Can you think of a cost effective Tim Ferris way to make attendance at these events irresistible? Well, you might consider I'm just making this up. So this is on the fly, but you might consider partnering.
with another organization like EO or YPO or whoever.
who might be looking for membership. And you could say, you know, I'd love to host this type of events for fans of Tim Ferris or however you want to phrase it, listeners of the Tim Ferris show or readers of such and such book.
And perhaps we can do an event where
They come for free.
get exposed to these following speakers. I think having speakers would be helpful. So you could try to do that on your own.
Or
You could make it more of an event.
Right. Some type of activity. So you could do I don't know. Tim Ferris show paintball extravaganza. Right. Get ten people to go do paintball or something.
Who knows, right? You just you have to make it what are they considering as alternatives. It's kinda like with Molly, let's just say. My dog Molly. I remember
At one point.
I was working with this dog trainer and she saw me giving kibble to Molly.
As the tree. Just her regular dog food, but in little pieces. And she goes, What is that? And I was like, Oh, it's kibble. She's like, Oh man.
She's like, You're not gonna train your dog that way. She said it's a crowd bar. You gotta tip with twenties. She's like, You're giving her bullshit. You have to have really good treats. You have to tip with twenties. It's a crowd bar, right? To compete with the squirrels and the dogs and the other stuff, the smells. So I would say uh those are a few ideas.
Uh.
If you have a small group of friends, you can just
Take their temperature with a couple of different options.
And
See how it goes, right? I mean, uh those are a few initial thoughts, but
Maybe helpful, maybe not. All right. I think those are the only ones that I can really answer well from the pre-submitted questions.
I'm gonna take a look at
A few things that are
Left here.
Timothy Keane, this is visualization or affirmations. I haven't used affirmations much, to be honest, I don't think.
Actually that's not true. With five minute journal and things like that.
kind of these statements like I am or whatever.
I'll also frequently have something like you have plenty of time or there's plenty of time.
Right.
feel artificially rushed, which never produces great results or great feelings for that matter.
Or something like, frankly, this is true for a lot of people on this QA, right? Like you've already won the game. You speak English.
You have a computer.
Hopefully you're healthy. Like you've already won the game. So just
Number one, like take a breath.
Realize there's no game.
on some level left to win. Like you've already done it.
You've already crossed the finish line, so everything else is gravy. So just like
Take a chill pill and breathe.
And then for visualization, you know, I use that mostly with athletic stuff. Sometimes if I'm gonna get it on stage for like a speaking engagement, I'll visualize how it's gonna go or I'll run through it visually.
Just like I have a VR headset on, like I'll close my eyes. I'm very visual, so I'll imagine the whole thing, walking out, sitting in the right chair, looking to the audience, how I'm gonna hold the mic, et cetera.
And I'll run through.
Some of that as rehearsal. Let's say those are
Those are what come to mind.
Yeah, check names. I didn't realize that Hodinky was check for watches. That's hilarious.

Yeah, what would this look like if it were easy, Cindy?
question that I still ask myself all the time. What do I like to ask my this is Victoria ask my fans when I meet them. I ask
Who they would like to hear on the podcast.
If they can only pick one or two guests and they can't say Elon Musk or some huge name.
No huge names allowed.
Who would you like to have on the podcast? That's a question I ask. And I actually have had a lot of those answers.
Translate to guests on the podcast.
Randy, if we did a fan meetup, would you endorse it or say it's okay? I mean, this is where I have to be careful about taking on too much
responsibility with these things. So probably not, because if I did that.
then anyone who's ever hosting a meetup would come to me for the same thing and it would just create a huge
comms problem for me and my team. So I'd probably need to be hands off.
To have a fan meetup.
I don't think you need my permission.
You know, if you're turning into like some crazy business then using my name, then it turns into a a separate thing. But
Do I like electronic music?
Yes, I do. I mean I'm pretty old school. I mean I listen to Shingo Nakamura quite a bit for like
Chill mixes. Dead mouse.
Pretty old school, but
I wrote four hour body to a continuous mix, like a three hour set.
Of Dead Mouse.
There's there's all sorts of stuff, but it's usually something that's gonna give me a fair amount of energy. I listen to like lo fi beats type stuff when writing sometimes if I need something a little
Down tempo for
God knows where. I listen to a lot of like heavy, heavy metal when I'm writing, oddly enough.
State story strategy. Yeah, I still use state story strategy. People can look that up. I got that from Tony Robbins.
Uh, I would consider having more comedians on the podcast, but
I feel like other people do a better job, honestly.
Yeah, like Rogan, there's so many comedy podcasts out there. I wanna differentiate myself in some way that feels authentic to me.
Category One kind of stuff.
But yes, Austin is now a comedy center.
It's pretty wild.
All right, you guys.
I think that's that's me for now. I'm gonna get outside and shoot some arrows. And
I really appreciate everyone's time. Thank you for the hosting.
First and foremost, so awesome. So fun to see all of these events around the world.
And would love people to stay in touch with anyone they met at those events.
Or look to
Explore, explore, see what see what we can learn from each other.
Right. Doesn't have to be limited to anything I talk about. Like no, just find people who have
Yeah, who are philosophical values aligned and see what you can learn from each other.
Go for some bike rides or something.
Doesn't have to be coffee and wine. Get out and do something, right? Try something new together. Anyway, that would be my wish for you all. And um really appreciate everybody.
Being so engaged.
And um
I hope you have a wonderful week.

And uh to be continued, it will do some more meetups. All right, you guys. Thanks, everybody.
Bye.
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