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 tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari ( @harari_yuval ) is a historian and bestselling author who is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today. His popular books— Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — have sold 27.5 million copies in 60 languages. They have been recommended by Barack Obama, Chris Evans, Janelle Monáe, Bill Gates, and many others. The Guardian has credited Sapiens with revolutionizi...
Seth Godin discusses hacks, quality, and creativity, offering insights on overcoming anxiety and shipping creative work. He explores the importance of generosity, consistency, and understanding genre, emphasizing the value of process over outcome. Godin also shares advice on setting constraints, choosing the right games in life, and finding joy in the work itself.
Mr. Money Mustache ( @mrmoneymustache — Pete Adeney in real life) grew up in Canada in a family of mostly eccentric musicians. He graduated with a degree in computer engineering in the 1990s and worked in various tech companies before retiring at age 30. Pete, his wife, and their now eleven-year-old son live near Boulder, Colorado, and have not had real jobs since 2005. This begs the question of “How?” In essence, they accomplished this early retirement by optimizing all aspects of their lifesty...
Matthew McConaughey ( @McConaughey ) is a Texas native and one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men. A chance meeting in Austin with casting director and producer Don Phillips led him to director Richard Linklater, who launched the actor's career in the cult classic Dazed and Confused . Since then, he has won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Ron Woodroof in Dallas Buyers Club , appeared in more than 40 feature films that have grossed more than $1 billion, and has become a producer, ...
Naval Ravikant ( @naval ) is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList . He is an angel investor and has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, OpenDoor, Postmates, and Wish. You can subscribe to Naval , his podcast on wealth and happiness, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Overcast , or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al . For more Naval plus Tim, check out my wildly popular interview with him from 2015 , wh...
Books I've Loved — Debbie Millman | Brought to you by Audible . Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.” I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have i...
Please enjoy this special episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , featuring the superhuman Adam Grant ( @AdamMGrant ) and his podcast with TED, WorkLife . Many of you have heard my interview with Adam, which was one of the most popular interviews of 2019. I titled that podcast “ The Man Who Does Everything ” because Adam seems to accomplish more than the next 10 people combined, and he has built systems and habits that allow him to do this. Adam is an expert in how we can find motivation and meaning, ...
Steven Rinella ( @StevenRinella ) is the host of the Netflix Originals series MeatEater and The MeatEater Podcast . He's also the author of seven books dealing with wildlife, conservation, hunting, fishing, and wild foods, including the forthcoming The MeatEater Guide to Wilderness Skills and Survival , coming out on December 1st, 2020. Please enjoy! This episode is brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs . Whether you are looking to hire now for a critical role or thinking about needs that you may have...
Dr. Mark Plotkin ( @DocMarkPlotkin ) is an ethnobotanist who serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team , which has partnered with 55 tribes to map and improve management and protection of 80 million acres of ancestral rainforests. Educated at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts, Plotkin has since spent much of the past four decades studying the shamans and healing plants of tropical America from Mexico to Argentina, although much of his work focuses on the rainforests of the northeast Amazon. He ...
Books I've Loved — Cal Fussman | Brought to you by Audible . Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.” I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have infl...
“I don’t worry about inspiration as much as system overload.” — Dustin Yellin Dustin Yellin ( @dustinyellin ) is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the founder and director of Pioneer Works , a multidisciplinary cultural center in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that builds community through the arts and sciences to create an open and inspired world. He and his incredible work have been featured by media and organizations including The New York Times , Artforum , Vanity Fair , and TED. Drawin...
Richard Koch ( @RichardKoch8020 ) is an entrepreneur, investor, former strategy consultant, and author of several books on business and ideas, including four on how to apply the 80/20 principle in all walks of life. His investments have grown at 22 percent compounded annually over 37 years and have included Filofax, Plymouth Gin, Belgo, Betfair (the world’s largest betting exchange), FanDuel, and Auto1. He has worked for Boston Consulting Group and was a partner at Bain & Co. before joining ...
Jamie Foxx ( @iamjamiefoxx ) is an Academy Award-winning actor , a Grammy Award-winning musician , and a famous standup and improv comedian . He is, without a doubt, the most consummate performer and entertainer I have ever met. In the 2.5 hours we spent together in his home studio, he blew my mind. We cover a TON in this wide-ranging episode, including many never-before-heard stories. Here’s just a tiny sample of what you’ll hear: Jamie’s workout routine Jamie’s origin stories — how he used $40...
For me, this is the most important podcast episode I’ve ever published. In it, I describe the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative journey of my 43 years on this planet. I’ve never shared it before. My dance partner and safety net in this conversation is my friend Debbie Millman ( @debbiemillman ). She has been named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company , and she is the host of Design Matters —a great show and one of the wo...
Esther Perel — The Relationship Episode: Sex, Love, Polyamory, Marriage, and More (Repost) | Brought to you by ButcherBox and Laird Superfood . Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel ( @EstherPerelOfficial ) is recognized as one of today’s most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. Fluent in nine languages, she helms a therapy practice in New York City and serves as an organizational consultant for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Esther is an...
“There is a natural skepticism that you develop as a journalist, which I think is important. But oftentimes that develops into cynicism.” — Guy Raz Guy Raz ( @guyraz ) is the Michael Phelps of podcasting. He’s the creator and host of the popular podcasts How I Built This , Wisdom from the Top , and The Rewind and the co-creator of the acclaimed podcasts TED Radio Hour and Wow in the World , a children’s program. He’s received the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, the Na...
“When you’re humble, you’re teachable.” — Kelly Slater Kelly Slater ( @kellyslater ) is widely considered the greatest surfer of all time. He holds nearly every major record in the sport, including 11 world titles and 55 career victories. He also has the amazing distinction of being both the youngest and oldest world champion in men’s history. His most dominant days were the mid-’90s, when he won five straight titles between 1993 and 1998. After topping Mark Richards’ previous record of four str...
Maria Popova ( @brainpicker ) is a reader and a writer who writes about what she reads on Brain Pickings , which is included in the Library of Congress permanent web archive of culturally valuable materials. She is the author of Figuring , the editor of A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader , and the creator and host of The Universe in Verse , an annual charitable celebration of science through poetry at the interdisciplinary cultural center Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. Brain Pickings is ...
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.” I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have influenced them, changed them, and transformed them for the bette...
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is normally my job to deconstruct world-class performers of various types, of all ilks. In this special episode, the tables are turned. Instead of interviewing someone else, I am interviewed by two experts on several topics I’ve both studied and supported, including psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and what it can do to heal trauma and—broadly speaking—possible futures for mental health. This audio was recorded on a new show, The Ps...
“The goal is to make people laugh and then to really break their heart.” — Chuck Palahniuk Writer Chuck Palahniuk ( @chuckpalahniuk ) has published twenty-three national and international best-selling books. These include fifteen prose novels, a collection of short stories, two graphic novels, two coloring books, a travel guide, a collection of essays, and a memoir about his life as a writer. He was raised in a desert town with a population of three hundred at the time of his birth in 1962. He r...
The Power of Myth — The Hero’s Adventure with Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers | Brought to you by How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers by David M. Rubenstein Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is normally my job to interview and deconstruct world-class performers of all different types. This episode flips the script, but you get a masterful interview in the process. and it features the first program or chapter—titled “The Hero...
“Win the respect of people you respect, and you can forget the rest.” — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks ( @RabbiSacks ) is an international religious leader, philosopher, and respected moral voice. He was the chief rabbi of the UK and Commonwealth from 1991 to 2013 and the recipient of the 2016 Templeton Prize, in recognition of his “exceptional contributions to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.” Rabbi Sacks has been described by HRH The Prince of Wales as “a light unto t...
Books I've Loved — Whitney Cummings | Brought to you by Audible . Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.” I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have...
The Random Show — Zen, Investing, Mike Tyson, Artificial Intelligence, and the World's Best Beers | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines , LegalZoom , and Allform . Technologist, serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, self-experimenter, and all-around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose ( @KevinRose ) rejoins me for another episode of “The Random Show.” In this one, we wax poetic over wildlife friends and foes, the folly of facing off against Mike Tyson (even in his 50s), slow donkeys, universal basic...
Sia — The Alchemy of Blockbuster Songs, Billions of Views, and the Face You’ve Never Seen | Brought to you by Athletic Greens , LinkedIn Jobs , and Thrive Market . “I don’t think that I’m necessarily like a super-talented songwriter. I think I’m just really productive. One out of 10 songs is a hit. So where a lot of people will spend three weeks on one song, I will write 10 in three weeks.” — Sia Sia ( @sia ) is an Australian singer, songwriter, director, screenwriter, and pop icon. Her current ...
Mike Novogratz on Investing, Bitcoin, Ayahuasca, and Running Through The Sahara Desert | Brought to you by Magic Spoon , Four Sigmatic , and LMNT . Michael Novogratz ( @novogratz ) is the founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital . He was formerly a partner and president of Fortress Investment Group, LLC. Prior to Fortress, Michael spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected partner in 1998. Michael served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Marke...
Books I've Loved — Neil Strauss | Brought to you by Audible . Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show , where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types—from startup founders and investors to chess champions to Olympic athletes. This episode, however, is an experiment and part of a shorter series I’m doing called “Books I’ve Loved.” I’ve invited some amazing past guests, close friends, and new faces to share their favorite books—the books that have inf...
Grandmaster Maurice Ashley — The Path and Strategies of World-Class Mastery | Brought to you by Helix Sleep , ExpressVPN , and Athletic Greens . Maurice Ashley ( @MauriceAshley ) made history in 1999 when he became the first African-American chess Grandmaster. He is a three-time national championship coach, an author, ESPN commentator, iPhone app designer, puzzle inventor, and motivational speaker. Maurice is well known for providing dynamic live tournament coverage of world-class chess competit...
Brad Feld — The Art of Unplugging, Carving Your Own Path, and Riding the Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster | Brought to you by Laird Superfood , Theragun , and Thrive Market . "Brad, they can’t kill you and they can’t eat you. Suit up." — Len Fassler Brad Feld ( @bfeld ) is the author of two new books: The Startup Community Way and the second edition of Startup Communities . He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group , he co-founded Mobius Ven...
