“I want readers to pick that up and do something better. And with with every book so far, from The 4-Hour Workweek all the way through Trust Mentors, I've seen that”
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From The Tim Ferriss Show · 2019-11-12
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“I want readers to pick that up and do something better. And with with every book so far, from The 4-Hour Workweek all the way through Trust Mentors, I've seen that”
“And with with every book so far, from The 4-Hour Workweek all the way through Trust Mentors, I've seen that”
“I these days wake up much earlier than usual. So, I'm waking up around 6:30. And I then throw on the electric kettle to boil water or get it more or less to 190, so not boiling. Then I go take my supplements for the morning. And come back, the water's ready to go. I take chaga, chaga mushroom powder, which I have from Four Sigmatic, and then a teaspoon of soluble yerba mate tea from a brand, I believe it's called Am I getting Mate Leão? Mate Leão? Leão is lion. I'm sure I'm mangling that in Portuguese, but it's a it's a soluble yerba mate that I really like. And I mix that together. I have I take that along with a thermos of hot water, and I walk to my outdoor patio, where I'm sitting right now, with my triangular wooden table, which you can see on Instagram. Put it up in the last week or so. It's my office. And I immediately get to work. Uh if I wake up earlier for some reason, I might do a 20-minute meditation, but otherwise I come right out, and I have a big whiteboard easel with my chapters or writing pieces that I'm working on for that day. And I immediately begin working on the writing. That is ideally first on paper. So, I will have printed out drafts that I worked on the day before. And I'll do editing on paper, and then I'll jump into the laptop to make those edits. And that goes from, say, 6:30 to 9:30 or so. Maybe 10:00. At that point, I exercise. And that could take the form of a class, that could take the form of cycling, that could take the form of weight training. Generally, something endurance-related, also if the weather's nice, I'll get out into the sun. That's from say 10:00 to 11:30, something like that. Have lunch. And then it is back to writing. And in the afternoon, that would be up until I would say 5:00 or 6:00, taking a break every hour or so for ping pong for 5 minutes, and I use it a timer. With one of my researchers we'll play. And then we wrap up around say 7:00. Dinner's 7:30, whether at a restaurant or cooking. Dinner maybe a sauna in a barrel sauna for say 10 to 20 minutes with cooling off in the pool in between rounds. Bed with a Marpac Dome white noise machine. And the temperature set to maximum 70°. Bedtime, wake up, rinse and repeat. That's what the day looks like. Tutes, I think. Tutes. Tutes and toes. Do you believe in the law of attraction and abundance thinking? This is This is a very fair question. I believe that the questions you ask yourself create a lens through which you view the world. And that we all have selective attention and that there are different ways to choose what you select to see. Much like when you buy say a new car, if you happen to buy a could be anything, a Tesla, a certain model Tesla, chances are you're going to go driving and you will see Teslas everywhere. You will now notice all of the Teslas that were already there that you had just allowed to pass through your vision unnoted before. The abundance thinking law of attraction secret camp, I think, goes a little off the rails when they posit that if you simply put a mantra out into the world or a vision board that all these things are going to manifest automatically. And despite all the crazy [ __ ] that I talk about and all the the psychedelic experiences and so on, that particular breed of law of attraction magical thinking I think is is very reckless and generally unproductive. Uh but if you say look at the four books I recommend at the back of the four-hour workweek as the four fundamental reads or something like that. One of them is The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz.”
“One of them is The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz.”
“I do think, as mentioned earlier, that training yourself for optimism has a whole host, I mean, innumerable benefits. Uh but the belief that you can put together a vision board and that the world is going to give you everything you want or something along those lines, I think, is uh not likely to pan out very well. So, that's that. Let's see here. Andrew, what's a good way to get your network started if you've neglected it for, say, {dot} {dot} {dot} 30 years? {question mark} Uh I would I would Google how to build a world-class network in record time, which is a presentation I gave at South by Southwest. That'll tell you exactly how to go about doing it. Elian, if I'm getting your name right, did I become more nurturing since I got Molly? Uh yes, I would say absolutely. And I become less self-centered, which I think is probably the prerequisite. Not that I was a complete uh [ __ ] beforehand, I hope not. Uh but we are all self-centered in the sense that we focus on the self. We are the the lead actor or actress in our own movie. And having a dog, for me at least, has uh forced me to constantly consider the needs of someone or something outside of myself. And it is also uh forced me to contend with messes of all sorts. If my dog gets diarrhea in the middle of the night and shits all over my room, which has happened, I had to have carpets removed. It makes no sense for me to get furious at my dog. The dog doesn't want to [ __ ] on the carpet. Uh Molly doesn't She's not doing that to exact revenge upon me. She doesn't have thumbs. She can't open the door. Can't go outside and spray paint the the uh the the nearby shrub or whatever. So, it's also been a really good mirror for me in the sense that I'm able to look at my reaction to things that are outside of my control. That's particularly helpful when you have dear innocent Molly who would never deliberately do anything to upset me or anger me. So, it's it's been wonderful practice and a wonderful practice, I should say. And she's she's certainly had a a comprehensively wonderful effect on my life. But, if you are thinking of getting a dog, number one, please consider adopting. I've I adopted Molly. There are a lot of dogs that need adoption. And number two is don't get a dog if your plan is to fit it around everything else in your life. Get a dog if you can say, "I'm going to get a dog and it's so important to me that I help this dog have a wonderful life and therefore help increase the likelihood of me having a wonderful life that I'm going to fit everything around the dog. I'm going to change my schedule. I am going to I'm willing to change my schedule. I'm willing to spend money. I'm willing to do dot dot dot dot dot dot to ensure this dog gets exercise and has the life it should have. And I've I've decided that that is the big rock I'm putting in my jar and then there are the smaller stones in the sand. But, the dog goes in first. It's not the last thing that is left over and it gets the table scraps of life. That's my two cents. And if you want more on training and so on, thinking about all this, Susan Garrett is a fantastic dog trainer and also spectacular agility competitor with dogs. Was on the podcast. So, you can find her. She's fantastic. She's just exceptional. All right. Jen, Daniel, what did you do for Lyme disease? That's also a question that was in the submitted questions that were selected by my team. So, I'll answer that. Also from Jen. So, congratulations. I saw both. The short answer is that I did a proper cycle of doxycycline, which is an antibiotic. And the mistake I made was that I waited for symptoms to appear. I spent time in a number of locations that have incredibly high tick density. And they are the hot spots on the CDC, the Center for Disease Control maps. And I grew up in one of those environments on Long Island. And the local belief was you get bitten by a tick, you wait. If you don't get a bull's-eye rash, you don't have Lyme disease. If you do get a bull's-eye rash, then you go into the doctor and get medication. The problem is, by the time you get a bull's-eye rash, you already have Lyme disease. Similarly, or I shouldn't say similarly, on the other side, if you don't show a bull's-eye rash, that does not mean that you have not contracted Lyme disease. Something like 20 or 20 to 30% of the people who contract Lyme disease do not display some type of dermatological response like that. And I was one of those people. The doxy was, I think, necessary. Didn't have a demonstrable effect on my day-to-day living, but ketosis did. Going into ketosis and getting into deep ketosis, meaning, say, it at least 2.5 millimolars per day as measured on the Precision Extra device made by Abbott Labs, was what like that. As soon as I got to, say, 2 millimolars, I felt like a different person. And that brings up all sorts of speculation and theories about what Lyme disease might do to the brain. Is it glucose metabolism when you give it an alternate fuel source like ketones? Perhaps also, say, in the case of Alzheimer's disease, which some people call brain diabetes, uh you see this dramatic, in some cases, in my case, cognitive shift where I felt like old Tim uh, for for all intents and purposes overnight. And, staying in ketosis for a few weeks and then coming back out to lower carbohydrate for a few months was what seemed to have saved me. Could be regression to the mean and just the passage of time. I don't know, but I I have seen ketosis have beneficial effects for a number of close friends who have contracted Lyme disease. One thing I will say is that Lyme disease is very poorly understood and there are often co-infections like babesiosis and other things. So, it's it's it's a really wily variable to figure out, but those are my thoughts. Or, I shouldn't say my thoughts. Those are my experiences. Daniel Campos, do you take any supplements medication for anti-aging metformin NAD, etc. I do I I do experiment with NAD on occasion, mostly because the the penalty is very minor. Side effects are are are are very minimal. Uh, metformin I would consider. I haven't used I have used metformin before, Glucophage, but uh, I have not used it for many years. I used it way back in the day, '96. That's when I tried metformin for the first time. So, go look at look at look at look at the the history books for that. That was a long time ago as far as metformin conversation goes. Uh, rapamycin would also be of interest to me. Uh, it's it's quite challenging to figure out what type of human dose to use for purposes of longevity and I'm working on that, or I should say rather I have very close friends who are working on that. So, I'm waiting to see what they, as the first monkeys shot into space, figure out. I'm happy to be the 10th or 100th monkey shot into space and not the first, which I think is a good policy in general. All right. Looking at some comments here after my mention of ketosis, Ash it looks as had a similar experience with Lyme and ketosis. Going on the ketogenic diet as per your interview with Dom D'Agostino helped my symptoms, especially the neurological ones more than anything else. That was my personal experience, too. No guarantees, your mileage will vary, but there you go. Galvin Kennedy, a few people have sug- gested that I answer your question. Any books or tips on breaking up with long-term underperforming business partners? This is a big topic. I would say take a look at Hacker News, Venture Hacks. Venture Hacks is probably a better resource, or at least easier to parse. That is a website created by Naval Ravikant. I feel like he's Candyman, I keep invoking his name. Naval Ravikant, Ravikant, Ravikant. Uh Naval Ravikant and his friend Nivi, also behind AngelList. And that runs through what they wished they had known when they were navigating the start-up the start-up ecosystem. And breakups among co-founders is very common. So I would imagine they have something written about that. Uh Crucial Conversations is a book that I've heard recommended for navigating scripts or creating scripts for this type of conversation.”
“In the meantime, uh books like The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer could help you to find some resources or mentors, people who could advise on this type of conversation.”
“Dr. Gabor Mate, Hungarian born uh Vancouver-based, I believe still uh is an expert in addiction, and wrote a book called In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.”
“I would recommend two books in the following order. The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch, k o c h, and the second book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie.”
“and the second book, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie.”
“For those who don't know, Rolf Potts wrote a book called Vagabonding.”
“The book Awareness by Anthony DeMello, d e m e l l o. If you're going to read one book of all the books I've mentioned in this Q&A, pick up Awareness by Anthony DeMello.”
“And I would say Cryptonomicon. Cryptonomicon is a gigantic book and it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it found me at the right time I suppose.”