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We have questions that were pre-submitted and then we have questions that are coming in and live feed and I will do my best to answer a whole bunch of both. So why don't we dive in the first question I'll answer is from the live feed this from zaheer. Are you actively taking any actions to reduce your carbon footprint? Yes. I am. There are certainly a number of different steps. You can take in terms of funding you Technologies a lot of my
Over the last I would say three to four years has been in various types of tech different products and services that I think will overall help people to reduce carbon footprint. I also donate money monthly to different causes and companies including charm industrial which put soil back underground people can check that out at charm industrial.com and that I
believe is now funded through as it stands for me Tara set. I believe that is how I'm going about doing this Terrace climate. So people can look at that as a means for instance to hopefully offset some of the carbon footprint of my travel and other things. I am intensely aware of individual action, but also the necessity in a sense to number one not try to consume.
Um our way out of this problem, but also simultaneously to recognize that we do need better technology. So it's a combination of different things. This is a question from the live feed. What classical career are you in in a parallel reality? This is espanyol 327. I would say neuroscientist or marine biologist. Those were the two professions that I most wanted to pursue after age. Say 12 or 13 prior to that. It was comic book penciler. So I would
Say those are my classical careers as such that might exist in some parallel set of universes in the Multiverse on other tracks that are running parallel to this one. Let me go to the questions that were pre-submitted and I will answer a number of those and we'll bounce back and forth. So the next question is going to be from Lucas. Hey, Tim, you mentioned in an interview that you allowed yourself to live your life. Unoptimized. Are you still living in?
An
optimized life, I would say that there is optimizing and D optimizing happening simultaneously in the sense that there are certain things that I am optimizing to Define that simply tweaking variables to say improve certain outputs based on the inputs, right? So we're looking for an elegant refinement in so much as I might approach something like Occam's protocol and the 4-Hour Body which I've ended up following again.
In roughly the same as it was published in 2010 in the 4-Hour Body. This is a strength training and resistance training program. It's a very minimalist but in the last four to six weeks, I've probably gained 10 to 15 pounds of muscle and lost a decent amount of fat in the process. That's more diet dependent than anything else the fat loss side. That would be slow carb diet, but when you're approaching say progressive resistance, you want to follow the metrics very closely.
Have some type of plan in advance so one could argue that's optimizing but then there's D optimizing and if you look at my kitchen table and the books strewn about including this one masterpieces of fantasy art. This is a tashjian book Taschen book. Dian Hanson. This is a gift that was put in front of me to my glee about two weeks ago, and I've been digesting that very slowly as I have been digesting different types of
Of philosophy and poetry which certainly I'm not trying to speed read in any sense whatsoever and went for a long Meandering relatively unplanned hike that is the path itself wasn't predetermined with my dog Molly earlier today. So those are all the examples in my mind of unoptimized living but they go hand-in-hand. I don't think you can really optimize any facet of your life without perhaps
Glee D optimizing or neglecting other aspects think it's beyond the reach of most Mortals to optimize everything. So it becomes a question of trade-offs and picking and choosing question from Zane. Who is someone you've been impressed with lately. The people may not know of and why I would say one that comes to mind is an oldie but a goodie, this is a Chinese photographer named fan. Ho fa n last name. H0 incredible photographer.
Actor multi-hyphenate long since passed as I understand it, but fan hose work is truly spectacular in terms of the composition of the images. I think all visual artists can learn a lot from fan how so fan. Ho would be what comes to mind. I'll do one more on the questions that were pre-submitted from you all. This is from yavor. Do you use personal coaching and how I have used a lot of personal coaching throughout my life certainly for sports for dance for let's just
Executive coaching I would also check the box I've worked with Jim Detmer at Consciousness is that's conscious leadership group and I recommend their book the 15 commitments of conscious leadership. I believe it is which was initially recommended to me if I'm recalling correctly Dustin moskovitz and there are many others that I've used over time. So the short answer is yes in terms of how or why I would say, there are
Any different breeds of Coach some focus on offering strategic advice others act as therapists in a sense ask you a certain set of questions. They tend to each have their toolkit and they sort of illicit different types of thinking by asking questions that you would not be inclined to ask yourself or perhaps respond to differently when you're in a conversation and then there are still others who simply hold you accountable or I should say not so simply
In all cases hold you accountable and they have other types of value they offer but predominantly say for someone in my position right now in this chapter of my life as its unfolding. I think that the greatest benefit is having someone to stress test my narratives and beliefs which are sometimes so ingrained that you simply see that as reality but to have someone who can identify perhaps the beliefs that you
having stress tested to really break assumptions that need breaking or rewrite narratives that need rewriting number one number two to ask uncomfortable questions number three to act as an accountability partner because if you're at the top of the pyramid organizationally speaking or if you're a solopreneur or anything like that, even if you're the CEO of a really large company, if you're at the top and perhaps you don't have as much accountability in certain respects as you would like I
Coach can add a lot of value in that capacity. So those are three of the questions. I'm going to jump back now to the live stream and see what else we have going on here. All right, this is a question from read. I'm getting that right. How have you been working on your good enough muscle a good enough good enough is in quotation marks here. And this pose that meant to underscore my predisposition to being a perfectionist and having some degree of OCD, too.
contend with the good enough muscle is actually I would say relatively easy to exercise if you recognize you cannot optimize all things as I mentioned earlier and that it's a question of trade-offs and much like some friends of mine have said you should be or strive to be world-class in one or two things and for the vast majority of other things except that good enough is plenty good enough and I would say that I'm
To make faster decisions if those decisions are reversible or very low cost and then you can sort out the details often later. So rather than waiting or hoping or searching for an additional 20% of information. Let's just say you're at 60 percent and you think you could make a better decision at 80. Well if it's very low cost or reversible or both making a fast decision and a
approaching it in more of a ready fire aim sequence. I think makes a lot of sense. So that's part of how I am approaching things. If that is helpful. Somebody asked about the video quality and the cam Mike lighting details of my current setup. I have a Logitech Brio webcam reasonably inexpensive. I'd say it's 70 or $80 connected to my MacBook Pro. This is an ATR
Say 2100 microphone, but it's probably the later Jen. So an ATR maybe 2300 USBC Mike from Audio Technica. This is probably also 70 to 80 bucks. And then in terms of light there is no special lighting aside from the ceiling lights and the natural light coming through very large windows in front of me. So that is my fancy fancy setup that fits in a backpack and often travels with me in a backpack. All right.
This is a question from cranberry leadership. Hi Tim. If forced how much your success can you directly attribute to studying overseas direct attribution is hard, but I would say that certainly I do not think I would be sitting here today with the trained ability. I don't think it's an eight to ask questions about basic assumptions to poke at conventional wisdom and quotation marks and Convention.
Had I not spent time abroad especially my first year brought as an exchange student in Japan given how alien and unlike the US. Japan is an almost every respect. So I think that that is as directly contributed to my ability to operate in the world in the way that I do and I'm very grateful for that.
Can we get a part through with Todd McFarlane quite possibly Todd is always good. That's from Moby and I certainly wouldn't mind hopefully in person. I think that would be better. What would I add the 4-Hour Body if I wrote it today from a name that I cannot pronounce? I would probably add a chapter on fasting and I would say tools of Titans really was intended to be almost an addendum to the 4-Hour workweek for our body and 4-Hour Chef in terms of say healthy wealthy wise not necessarily
That order but the fasting chapters and also segments on mental health and psycho-emotional health and psychedelics that were added to tools of Titans. I would say probably with some tweaks and updates would have been added to the 4-Hour Body or if I revised it today those would be added. Here's a question from anteus. If I'm saying that correctly your vibe in this place seems very intentional. That is the vibe behind me. Can you tell us more about why you chose?
I chose that Vibe yet. This is a very rustic country feeling and it's also a place that is intended to be lived in. So if you look at for instance as wood behind me, this is going to be 20 30 40 years old, maybe 50 years old the floors same and I've made a few tweaks few upgrades here and there but by and large this is intended to be used possibly abused their scratches all over the table.
That I'm sitting at with wine stains and so on from heavy social use with friends and family and this particular spot where I'm spending time is intended to be restful and easeful and part of that is not looking like or being treated like a museum also very sensitive to color palette natural light. So there's a lot of natural light here and I love the colors of fall. So you'll notice the backsplash behind.
Find the range has a very Autumn themed palette to it. And that is also very much deliberate. This is a question from Christina. Have you ever had impostor syndrome with a podcast guest if yes, who and why so I wouldn't say that I've had imposter syndrome. I would say that there are times when I felt very nervous and insecure and have been very worried about stumbling and making mistakes, I think.
Are are a few guests who come to mind. Certainly my first episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That was 2015 and that took a year year-and-a-half to set up Jamie Foxx similar that took a year and a half or two years to set up and I put incredible extended preparation into both these episodes to give an example that may not be as obvious as an A-list celebrity Ed catmull who at the time I think was president of Pixar you may have held some other
Official title but Ed was the first person I had on the podcast who was both high profile and someone I had never spoken with before so we had no pre-existing Rapport. No pre-existing friendship and I was incredibly nervous about that which is evidenced. We may have cleaned it up. But as he spoke I was so nervous. Every time you said something I did what in Japanese I
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would be identity which is like a confirmation like mmm.
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mmmm like someone who's hungry and looking at a plate full of delicious hot food drove people nuts and it was a nervous tick which we almost certainly ended up editing out significantly, but I've never felt like an imposter and I'm not sure why that is I know imposter syndrome and that term get used a lot.
the idea that you're going to be found out as a fraud or something like that, but I've always tried to be very transparent with my weaknesses and where I am in the learning curve with everyone including my audience and I think that prevents that or avoids it at least so if I am on the stage telling people that I have a b and c weaknesses or that I lack d e and f experience and sometimes I say that
Explicitly in my conversations. It's almost like pre-emptive body armor in a sense. Not only against external criticism but self-criticism. I don't need any additional fuel on the fire for negative self-talk so that could be viewed as a way of sort of bolstering my confidence in whatever skills. I might have or in the skills that I'm developing by laying it all on the table if that makes any sense. Why do I have a washing machine?
In the kitchen, that's a damn fine question. It was in here when I bought the house. I think it's ridiculous, but it doesn't really fit anywhere else. So that is why I have a washing machine in the kitchen. I'll do a few more in the live stream and then I'll go to the the pre-submitted.
It's from Joseph any plans to go Backcountry skiing this winter absolutely lots of plans to go back country inside country skiing this winter since that is one of my absolute favorite activities. So ski touring probably on DPS touring skis, which I bought last season and I am extremely excited could not be more excited to get out and get amongst it. All right. This is a question from Aaron if you were to start your podcast /
Brand over today, what would you do differently these questions this type of question is always challenging to answer because the times the conditions of all changed and I have changed. What I would say is I started my podcast almost 10 years ago this like upcoming April it will be the 10th anniversary of the podcast. And when I started I would say podcasting was attractive for the same reasons that Angel Investing were attractive to me and say the
7 2008. And a few of those ingredients are number one. It wasn't cutting cutting Cutting Edge. I wasn't the first person to podcast there was a certain critical mass of say 1,000 true fans many more certainly for shows like Rogan or Nerdist or Marc Maron. So there was a proof of concept already in front of me. I saw that something was happening and gaining in momentum and power with the Angel Investing.
Very similarly. There were a lot of venture capitalists a handful of angel investors who are doing. Well. There was this burgeoning new species of investment vehicle or person let's call it who or deeming themselves micro VC is at the time but it was otherwise pretty uncrowded ditto with podcasting relatively uncrowded easily to differentiate myself and to establish a podcast that would stand out from the crowd and be appealing to
Audience and the ability to become the signal above the noise was very very high. And as it stands right now podcasting has become much more crowded and I think that it is something I would not pursue with the same degree of conviction or at least it wouldn't seem Obvious off the bat. All right. This is a question from Chris. How is cutting back on booze going any
Advice on how to set expectations with friends who are particularly fond of drinking coming back and visit us going really. Well. I haven't had any and I don't know a week or two and I'm planning on doing no booze for all of October and the first half of November, so it'll be minimum of six weeks with no booze whatsoever and in terms of setting expectations, it's I would say number one being upfront if I'm ever invited to go out that I'm not
And I don't want to have a big conversation about it. I don't want to feel pressured. I'm just not drinking right now and you could use a an athletic goal as a pretext for that. Say you're trying to cut down on wait. Say you're trying to see how it affects your HRV you could certainly use anything like that. You could say that you're taking medication or supplements that might be contraindicated with alcohol, which is pretty much everything by the way, so it doesn't need to be a lie. It can just
just be maybe an overemphasized minor truth in this case. So all of those approaches I think could work pretty well. All right, here's a question. I get a lot. Actually this is from branislav. Your face is so smooth. No wrinkles. Do use any particular skin products or have you had any beauty treatments like botox or anything like that? No, I have not had any of those enhancements whatsoever. And I have used dr. Braun.
Is unscented Castile soap. So large containers of dr. Bronner's unscented soap for pretty much everything for years now. So I refill my hand soap with dr. Bronner's and there are these devices you can get on Amazon with mason jars that help you to basically create Foams doing this so you can put that in your bathroom or anywhere else and that is effectively all I use for both.
With my face my head and my body and my general approach with self-care is the fewer chemicals the fewer ingredients the better and this has been my policy for a long time. It's also why I tend not to use sunscreens occasionally. I'll use something that is predominantly say zinc oxide if I'm going to be in a very harsh set of conditions for instance, especially if I'm on snow or anything that's going to be reflective where I might get
We burned then I might use something like that. But otherwise, I will use long sleeve shirts hats Etc to minimize my sun exposure or take breaks. I'll be exposed for 20 to 30 minutes and then I'll take a break and I'll slowly acclimate over time as opposed to putting sunscreen with 30 ingredients on my skin and we've seen recall after recall after recall for instance of sunscreens based on different carcinogens and so on so much.
Sure, that's helpful. But I will say that there is such a thing as over applying chemistry and enhancements to your body and your face. So I really try to use a light hand and the less the better. I would also say that your external condition I think is often a reflection of your internal condition. So I do consume a lot of healthy fats. I take Nordic Naturals.
Omega-3 supplements, I alternate between fish and algae which has completely eliminated any type of nausea that I have felt from other omega-3 supplementation as an example. I pay a lot of attention to diet. So I would say I'm working from the inside out as opposed to trying to address sort of the cracks in the veneer with topical treatments, but I get this question a lot. So I wanted to take a stab at answering it.
It I also think that the lighting and the camera are very flattering at the moment. I do have crow's feet large crow's feet of question from Big Dog. Do you notice pattern and your happiness levels in regards to different types of social activities parties nightclubs events hiking Etc. I would say definitely I do and for this reason I tried to schedule two guys trips for me. So two guys trips per year at least which are
We in the sixth to eighth person range doing something active. The last trip was back inside country skiing. I could certainly see another option being hiking or fishing or something that involves movement and group dinners group could be two or three. I think the ideal number for me is probably three to five maybe even three to six as long as people don't split off into side conversations. Ideally when I am in a
That makes that easy to organize or a place where that is easy to organize. I would say two to three times a week seems to be the magic number, but even once per week honestly ideally
Say Wednesday, something like that or during the week which gives me a booster shot of well-being from a mental psycho-emotional perspective to carry me then through the rest of the week Friday Saturday. Sunday can't take care of themselves, especially Friday Saturday. So those are few things will had a good answer for the alcohol and what to say to your friends. I just tell them I'm allergic to alcohol I break out in handcuffs when I drink
I think that's pretty good question from we got lots of questions now. Okay, that's because we have 1382 people now instead of 31. Who do you want to interview? You haven't interviewed yet. There are so many people who come to mind. Ryan Reynolds would be very high on my list. I would really love to have him on the podcast but TBD. All right, this is from Hungarian language and culture. Have you ever thought about interviewing Dan John? I have thought about interviewing Dan John and thank you for the reminder. So I'm going to write that.
Down I'm a big fan of Dan John and easy strength and his work with Pavel taught suelen and certainly he would be an interesting addition to the roster. So I will put that down. This is from PJ. We're in your creative process. Do you feel the greatest friction today? And what strategies from the top 1% of creatives you've interviewed have worked for you to help overcome them. I would say the friction honestly is feeling
Showing fear around delving into new formats, that could be screenplay could be comic book writing which I think is the most likely next step for me. I think comics and I have the DC Comics guide to writing Comics something along those lines. Let me grab it the DC Comics guide to writing Comics right here by Dennis O'Neil, which is a great book, by the way, and the challenge for me is getting started. It's also delivering something by a specific deadlines. So in terms,
Of the top 1% creatives and what I have borrowed or find useful that I think could help me get over this hump. Frankly. It's being accountable to other people. So I've brought in others to help me with creative concept art pushes and I'm in the process of reviewing various types of environmental zand backgrounds for instance right now, and there are deadlines for that that helps push the ball forward with something like Comics I
I think having if for instance an accountability partner or a coach to focus on things like this so that if I do not deliver it's a matter of very uncomfortable conversation where they say Tim you committed doing this by this point in time. You didn't do it. You've hired me to help you with accomplishing these things. What are we doing here?
Honestly, and one of the questions I get a lot is when you're getting this advice from for 5 people per month. What do you pay attention to? Do you have fomo about doing certain things and other things how do you incorporate all the advice and frankly there are times when I experiment with new types of advice and then there are times when I hit pause and I say
if I were to assume I know what to do. What are the things? I know I should do. What are the things? I know work cold exposure resistance training, very basic meditation 20 minutes twice a day. There are certain ingredients that are easy to neglect because they don't have the newness. They aren't the shiny objects that have been put in front of me by a guest who I admire and aspire to be more
Like oftentimes it's not a question of figuring out what to add. It's rather a question of looking very closely at why you are failing to implement the few things that you know, reliably work and then removing those impediments. So alright you have resistance. There are certain obstacles or things that are preventing you from re-engaging with these things. You're doing them consistently. What are those? How can you make them automatic? How can you look at the
the work of say BJ Fogg and perhaps James clear right Atomic habits so that you can build these things into automatic behaviors like brushing your teeth. And those are phases that alternate for me right now. I'd say I am not in the new habit accumulation phase but rather looking back over my experience over the last 5 to 10 years. What are the things that consistently work that work? Almost every time I Implement them?
Instantly and how can I return to those things a couple of other questions you get suck. I apologize. If I'm not pronouncing that correctly. Have you ever learned about or studied the talmud? I haven't directly I'm very interested. I'm interested in holy scriptures overall, and I'm actually going to be taking time over the next month to read a lot of these holy scriptures. I think that it is probably impossible to understand.
Humanity as it has evolved or changed over certainly the last 2000 years 3,000 years without depending on Whose scriptures were referring to without having some at least basic passing familiarity with these texts. So I will be taking that time over the next three to four weeks. Here's a question David. This is about language learning Tim. You've talked and written so much about language learning but not as much about maintaining and revamping your languages. I'm trilingual and working on language number 4. Thank
To no small part to resources like the 4-Hour chef and feel that keeping up with all my languages often just as much work as acquiring them in the first place what practices are processes if any do you have for keeping up with your Japanese Spanish and other languages? I do have some approaches here. So number one is something that's become much easier in the last handful of years and that is movies. Watch movies. Not only watch say for instance movies in Japanese. So Japanese,
Movies with English subtitles watch English language movies with Japanese subtitles and ditto for Spanish, right? So watch English language movie is you know, well ideally could be something you've seen a hundred times like die hard or whatever doesn't really matter with Spanish subtitles and then conversely watch Spanish language movies with English subtitles. Preferably. That's something
That is say a series or television show. I just find there's a little bit more Grist for the mill and you can get used to the speech patterns of various protagonists and actors within a given Series. So I've done that with Spanish multiple times. Another approach is linking them together so linking languages together and what I mean by that is if for instance you have learned in my case Japanese first
When I wanted to learn.
German I bought both Japanese language versions of One Piece, which is a very famous manga very famous comic book. I bought German language versions of this same one piece comic book, which is a global phenomenon many people know it now, but certainly back in 2005. This would have been less common in German and then later in Spanish so I could read the same series.
And if I'm reading the German and I don't understand a section rather than going to an English German dictionary or German English dictionary. I'm going back to the Japanese and I'm using the Japanese to learn the meaning of the German and by doing that. I'm reviewing by Japanese while acquiring the German and then later for instance. When I did Spanish. I used the German language version of One Piece as my safety.
For the Spanish language version of one piece. So I'm reading in Spanish. If I don't understand something. I'm not going to English. I'm not going to Japanese. I'm going to my most recent language which is going to be in that case German if that makes any sense and what's beautiful about these comic books is they are laid out page-by-page Pain by pain typically in exactly the same way. So the dialogue should map really cleanly and another
benefit which I just alluded to for the comic books is that they are almost entirely dialogue rather than Exposition dense prose that is very literary in nature. Almost all of it is dialogue and granted they might be talking about Pirates or something else. It's not going to fall into your daily conversation all the time, but a lot of it well and certainly the grammar will all right, that is language learning.
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This is a question from Krishna Molly pup. It's Molly Pub. Right there my dog. Can you please share more in your daily care and routine for Molly with puppy and want to incorporate best practices and diet playing training big. Thanks for everything. You do. Thanks for the question. So I do have some videos on YouTube related to basics of dog training. I am not the world's greatest dog trainer, but I did spend a lot of time looking at different types of training as far as books go.
I would strongly recommend. Don't shoot the dog by I believe it's Karen prior to popularized clicker training using a clicker training which she had initially. I believe refined with aquatic mammals who really don't respond to negative reinforcement. Right? If you're training a dolphin and they don't do what you want them to do. You can't really fold up a newspaper and smack the dolphin on the but with bad dolphin. They just swim away you then in turn get much
better at positive reinforcement. This is also true if you're say trying to train a chicken, which is something I still want to learn how to do I want to do a weekend course and training chickens and one of the quotes of the book. I remember I can't remember the attribution, but it was no one should be allowed to have a child until they've been forced to train a chicken and there's a lot to it. So if you want to learn about conditioning overall and certainly as it relates to a dog, I think clicker training and Karen prior and don't shoot the dog are great place to start.
There are some fantastic YouTube channels, which I believe at least last I checked I referred to in the description and some of my videos on the Tim Ferriss YouTube channel so you can take a look at those but there are various types or categories of training there's safety which should take precedence over say kind of vanity tricks right dog spinning around less important than the dog staying say in the back of the car and not jumping out.
Until you've issued a command that sort of releases the dock jump out because they could get hit by a passing car or something like that in terms of routines lots and lots of walking read by breed different breeds will have higher demands if they're working dogs like a border. Collie. You really shouldn't have that dog in an apartment in the city for instance there. They just require way too much exercise for it to be compatible with most people in a heavily Urban environment, but really big dogs
It's and really a little dogs do pretty well on those constrained environments. Molly is kind of like her old man me former athlete not great endurance very heat intolerant. So her enthusiasm out strips for capacity for work, which is great for me because I can take her for an hour long or two hour long walk and I can either do that in the wilderness or do it leashed usually attached around the waist and listen to an audio book if
Something of that I want to do but I just swim laps in the pool before jumping onto this Q&A in freezing cold water as a way to wake up and that is one of her favorite activities and show run around the pool from end to end and and basically doing a shuttle Run for the entire time that I'm swimming. So a tired dog is a happy dog. It's also true for humans by the way, like a physically exhausted human is generally a happy human and a well-trained dog is a happy dog now well trained,
Could be substituted with a dog with clear rules is a happy dog. And I think that also applies to Parenting and kids right how consistent are you how predictable are you and therefore perceived as stable? I think all of these things apply. So those are a couple of recommendations, but certainly when you look at Karen prior and clicker training, I also think if your puppy is young enough crate training is one of the greatest gifts. You can give your dog. Do not give your puppy the
Opportunity to make mistakes, it's harder to remove behaviors. Then it is to prevent them in the first place. So if you don't want your dog to chew on shoes just get shoes out of their range get them off of the floor. So they don't develop that habit and they get past that teething phase and then you will never have a problem with your dog chewing shoes. Here's one Mary do you batch cook? Yeah, I do especially if I'm by myself while batch cook and then I'll eat meals for a while. So I have been following the Slow Carb Diet as described in the 4-Hour Body you can
Find it online. If you just search how to lose 100 pounds following the Slow Carb Diet. There's a blog post that I wrote that lays out all the basics and you don't need the book for that. I've been cooking. For instance. Chili. I have chili in the refrigerator. Then I cooked up some 95/5 so 95% ground venison 5% ground organs. Now inui venison ground meat which is the most nutritionally dense meet you.
I in the United States as far as I'm concerned and they have the analysis on the website to demonstrate just how incredibly nutrient-rich their meat is and their Blends especially with a bit of organ meat. So I'll cook that and the combination of that plus the chili plus a little goat cheese because you got to have a little goat cheese plus some sauteed spinach, which is cooked at the same time that'll feed me for three or four meals and as someone who's currently
Flying solo. I'm about to leave the country. That is a fantastic. Go to meal that I can just recycle over and over again. I'll generally I would say cook batch cook enough to feed me for four to five meals and then I'll go out at least once a day to have the social interaction. This is from lafe laif. Are there any Global or national Trends in the next 5 to 10 years that aren't talked about enough?
Or you believe more people should be paying attention to if applicable. How are you personally preparing for this or these shifts? I would say one that comes to mind is for lack of a better term digital emotional surrogacy. I'm sure there is a sexier or more elegant term for this but the inevitable development that we will have I would say within the next probably two years photorealistic avatars that we
An interact with through say virtual reality and if you haven't seen the demo of The Meta Meta verse with Zuckerberg with Lex Friedman on his recent podcast on YouTube that showcases what this can look like. I would encourage everybody to at least watch the first five minutes to get a taste of things to come with the ability to interact with photorealistic avatars Furthermore with the ability to interact with photo realistic.
Avatars who might be your favorite celebrity like a Taylor Swift with very convincing facial expressions. We are getting to a point where companies like replica for instance replica with AK at the end K instead of CA where digital companions are going to become for many people not just a supplement to human interaction but a replacement for human interaction, so I would say that
The loneliness epidemic from my perspective probably only going to get more nuanced more complex and more challenging to address in some respects because especially for people like myself who are introverts I'm taking active steps. So I'll answer that second part of your question to maybe preemptively gird myself for this but for those people who are already intimidated or taxed by going out and interacting with one person or groups of people.
You can see the case of for many of them opting out completely and I think we already have problems with declining birth rates and there are many countries that are below replacement rates at this point. So I am very curious to see what societal impact that will have the way I am counteracting that for myself is booking things on the calendar in advance and buy in advance. I mean at this point, I'm probably six months out booking trips.
Soooo, booking time with friends booking time with family getting it on the calendar putting money behind. It doesn't have to be a lot of money but enough money that you can benefit from the sunk cost fallacy and feel invested. So you won't cancel things and really giving myself very few options for opting out of social interactions that I've proven to myself over time are always in my best.
Interest even if I will drag my feet to get there in the first place. I will leave being better off. So those are a few thoughts in terms of Trends people are paying a lot of attention to say AI in Broad Strokes or machine learning in Broad strokes, but my interest and certainly what I'm also watching in my audience are some of the societal implications and these psychological sort of mass psychological implications of these things so you will be able to take
Steps to perhaps put a moat around yourself to minimize the damage but this is something to pay attention to and I would also say that as these tools become more and more convincing. We've Blown Away the Turing test. It's already been beaten or past. So as these tools and machines become more and more convincing more and more appealing. I think that there will be the very natural.
To offload more and more of the things that we currently handle in our own heads or manually and if you want to preserve some of those abilities you're going to have to decide to be perhaps a selective Luddite or at least four periods of time be a selective Luddite for instance. How many people here would say their parents are better at directions offline not using Google Maps, then the younger generations and I would imagine a lot of people would raise their hand.
And and this is perhaps not controversial because people have decided to embrace something like Google Maps or many other competitors to help them with convenience and accuracy and so on. However, if you don't use it, you lose it and it's easy to embrace convenience and not recognize severe atrophy of capabilities until it's very hard to reverse.
So I think that that is a meta awareness that needs to be developed as we are interacting with these increasingly seductive and Powerful tools so long answer but these are things that I think about. All right, here's a question from Andre. I'll go on a longer trip to Japan next year and I would love to know one of your favorite secret spots in the country for visit. All right, here are a couple of recommendations and one will
be not so secret but a lot of foreigners don't visit it and that's the Ghibli Museum. They call it mitaka Forest but it is basically an inokashira Park, you know, because she had a coaling you can get the tickets or at least you could at Lawson convenience stores. You could ask Hotel Concierge to also try to help you with this. I believe there are now two locations. So Ghibli is ghi bli it is effectively the Disney of Japan Miyazaki Hayao is the figurehead behind
Ghibli and my favorite movie Spirited Away is I think they're crowning achievement but I am biased Ghibli Museum and it'll cause you're a park is also tremendous. I would say if you drink again Yamamoto. So GE n Yamamoto gain Yamamoto is this tiny tiny? I think it's seats six to eight people bespoke cocktail bar where you sit down and it's basically Omakase and the bartender serves you
So you don't get to request things you don't get to object. You just get served like a master sushi chef would put things in front of you various drinks and you have this experience which is tremendous and I actually first met think it's gang or Yamamoto anyway at brushstroke, I think was the name of the restaurant in New York City where I bumped into him at the time. I was doing the food Marathon from for our Chef for those people to remember that where I had whatever it was 26.2.
You dishes in 24 hours walking around New York City and he was sitting there with this ice pick a number of tools chiseling huge blocks of ice into perfect spheres to make his cocktails and we struck up a conversation. And so when a friend of mine invited me to this place in Tokyo of sitting there and after the first or second trick we both looked at each other the same time and we're like, I know you I know you where do I know you from and we put it together. So there's that I would say there is a
Mi underground whiskey bar that is quite well known in nisekoi up in the north. So if you go skiing I would certainly take a minute and check that out. There can't be too many of them and it's a husband and wife team. The husband is Japanese and the wife is I want to say Australian or British. I apologize to her that I'm I'm probably not getting it right should be pretty easy to spot and then if you can get to Nickel so nickel and I KK o in the fall, especially
But higher elevation beautiful rural area if you can get there it's amazing for sightseeing but they also have occasional demonstrations of Japanese horseback archery, which is yabusame. Why a Busa Emmy and if you have the chance to see that you should definitely see it. It will blow your mind question from Jane at one point you talked about making the Improvement of Education in our country of focus, is that still an interest of yours, and if so, what are your thoughts?
It's at this time about how to do that. Yes, it's still of Interest. I did shift my focus to mental health Therapeutics including psychedelics for the last let's call it eight years, but education is always close to the front of my mind and I would say that I've shifted my focus in that Arena to not necessarily trying to fix policy and so on because it's beyond my capabilities and above my paygrade. It's just not the arena where I can make the most impact.
By focusing on Talent sourcing because there are often huge surpluses of scholarships and funds that are made available by giant foundations, but go unclaimed because it is challenging in time to find the most promising under resource kids in the country period it's a talent sourcing problem. So there are organizations like Quest Bridge which
I've supported a lot in the past and feel very strongly about there are others do a lot of good in public schools with various core materials and so on like donorschoose.org, which I've been involved with as well and then there are new startups that are doing very interesting things with accelerated learning and harnessing technology for that purpose. Certainly Khan Academy is interesting. Meant Ava is a very new startup that I have back.
And fingers crossed that they do a lot in that field this question from Andy Arthur Seabrooks episode had an immediate impact pull. My life. Philosophies was curious whether it did the same for you if it had a big impact you two seem to become fast friends. Thanks. Yes episode with Arthur was a real delight and I appreciated his ability to spin many plates very well. So he is from a secular perspective very
very dedicated to studying the science mostly on the social science side, but certainly tries to tie that together with Neuroscience in the fields that he is exploring. He is deeply religious and I find that very interesting and I think
The question of how to create meaning more so than Find meaning but you could use both how to create meaning in a world of pessimism and nihilism. We're in many countries religion has fallen away at least in some of the more urban environments is going to become an increasingly pressing question. So I am personally focused on that for me individually, but also as I just look at the different
State changes in various demographics in my audience. It's very concerning. So I do think about this a lot and I predicted a few years ago and we're already seeing this but it will it continue to be the case and will accelerate dramatically. I think there will be an explosion of what you might consider new religions. Some of them will masquerade as other things CrossFit veganism, whatever it might be but very strongly held belief systems that are defended with religious fervor.
where people who are Heretics from within are certainly ostracized these types of groups some of them with overt spiritual overtones or laws / Commandments / intentional living rules, whatever you might call it, but I think we will see a vast proliferation of these things as well as more uptake with the sort of judeo Christian or abrahamic
Religions I think all of those things you're going to become more and more appealing to humans who love it or hate. It seemed to be inextricably combined with religion or the seeking of this thing called The God and even in the most secular societies people worship something and I think the people who are at most risk of self-deception and societal problems are those people aren't clear on what they're worshiping and this is borrowing
From it might have been an Infinite Jest but everyone worships something. So it's just a question of knowing what you're worshipping. So that is certainly become of Greater interest to me. This is a question from Reese weightlifting for longevity. What are your thoughts? What are you doing differently? I think if you're going to
Choose one type of exercise in one type of exercise only resistance training which can sometimes take the form often takes the form of weight training would be the best investment for longevity and health span certainly for combating age-related decline of muscle mass and so on and so forth. There were a lot of questions.
That have come up in the precipitous questions around say the Slow Carb Diet weight loss. How do you make weight loss sustainable and a lot of people have the experience of losing weight and then regaining that wait for instance. I'm helping my dad right now with slow carb diet. And the last I want to say three months. He's lost 53 pounds, so he's doing really well, but those gains meaning those losses are hard to hold onto unless you upgrade your
Our underlying machinery and what I mean by that is increasing muscle mass sort of your mitochondrial engine. So to speak such that you have greater ability to dispose of glucose. You have better ability with this enhanced Machinery to generate heat to manage your insulin and glucose response to food. So weight training, really
We could look at the mortality rates associated with broken hips and so on in elderly populations. There's so many different outputs from pulling the one lever of consistent progressive resistance with say weight training that for me. It's just a no-brainer. Yes. There are other things that you can do and should do probably like Zone to training as described by Peter Tia, but for me based on all the data based on certain
Lee surveying my audience seeing what works what doesn't who's able to keep weight off who's able to sustain their progress over time? The common factor that I've identified is weight training now, why do I say weight training? Yes. I said resistance training because you can use something like gymnastics strength training GST, which is fantastic, but it is in some cases more challenging to quantify the progress whereas if you're lifting dumbbell.
10 pounds 10 pounds 12 pounds is 12 pounds 15 pounds is 15 pounds and in such a case, it's really basic and very straightforward to track your progressive resistance where you are increasing the amount of weight or the number of reps and increasing the productive stress that you are applying to your system over time, and I should note that that is another reason why if you have proper instruction, very very
Key underline underline if you have proper technical instruction that free weights are often Superior to machines if you're in one place and you always will have access to the same machines feel free to use machines. But otherwise in my case, when I am traveling a lot of the Year dumbbells are for instance barbells are easy to use anywhere. I find them and a pound is a pound or a kilogram is a kilogram. So
It's a long answer to a short question. But if I had to pick one tool for longevity in the exercise bucket, not on the diet side of things or in other categories, I would choose for myself weight training. All right, this is a question from Natalie. Hey Tim, what have you learned from years of interviewing around asking the right questions and enabling meaningful conversations. So I would say I've learned a whole bunch and I'll probably do a recap if such a thing is possible.
All around the 10-year anniversary of the podcast because I feel like I've learned a lot in terms of asking questions. I would say that an interview is very much like a conversation if you meet someone at a cocktail party and your first or second question is tell me about the most traumatic experience of your life. They're going to think you're a crazy person because nobody communicates that way and there is a rapport building.
Stealing out process so I plan for that and I often will spend say ten minutes five to ten minutes before we record having a conversation so that the guests can feel more at ease with me so that we can then get into some other corners and I will also set the expectation in advance that they have Final Cut they have final edit. They will get a transcript. They can remove anything. They want to remove I will also look out for them and for that
At reason we should really explore the edges. We should really push and Let It Fly because I can always cut things out later, but we can't add the interesting or the unexpected back in later. So that effectively buys both of us permission to go places that might not be typical for a conversation. I always tell them where I'm going to start so they build confidence in the beginning and no one.
Out of the gates and I also I would say look for the side alleys realizing that my podcast is not live for instance. Sometimes the digressions don't work. Sometimes the exit ramp that I think could take us somewhere interesting don't work. But other times they really end up being incredibly important and one example that hops to mind is my conversation with Debbie Millman my first interview of Debbie Millman and some of you will recognize that name also because she and I had a conversation
around childhood abuse and our respective healing Journeys from Early Childhood abuse and the reason I felt comfortable going there with her personally for my own story was that when I first interviewed her the list of questions, all the prep was intended to focus on
her background in graphic design and her career trajectory
But I had noticed that whenever she was asked about her childhood or her parents. She would generally answer in one or two very vague General statements and move on and I thought that was curious and I wanted to learn more about it. I didn't suspect what was coming, but I felt like at least we could cover some new territory and I asked her if she would be comfortable. This is part of my five to ten minutes before we hit record with me asking her about her childhood, and she said well, maybe we'll see you can try and then
I'll answer if I feel comfortable and I asked her about this and this was pretty early in the conversation. I would say in the first half hour and it ended up being the first time she had ever spoken publicly about childhood sexual abuse and this incredibly traumatic period in her life and everything she done to try to recover from that and that was the rest of the interview. So I always try to take a shot at the odd question or topic.
Maybe it comes up in my research. Maybe it comes up in the conversation where there's a throwaway comment. That might not be a throwaway comment. And then I asked well, let's come back to that for a second. You know, how did that make you feel some very basic follow-up questions often do the trick? What did you learn from that walk us through that moment. What was your internal experience? What was your self-talk when a happened or when you did be these very basic follow-up questions that take you off script often lead to the most
Fertile ground and also in the first I would say 10 minutes or so. I try to ask questions that they have never been asked before simply to show based on my research with say some very Arcane point in Wikipedia that links to another thing that links to another reference that links to another reference and I get a quote from a making this up but the second boss they ever had when they were working at an ice cream shop and I asked them what their interaction was like with so-and-so or
Who was so and so and how did they fit into your life and they go. Oh, wow. Okay, you really do your homework and that snaps them out of any autopilot dream state. They might have accidentally slipped into or deliberately slipped into people who get interviewed a lot have their 60 minutes set just like professional comedians because they learn what works and I don't blame them. I can do the same thing. So those are a few thoughts on things. I've learned about interviewing I could go on and on and on but those are a handful of come to mind. This is from Lexington.
The 30 grams within 30 minutes Allah this little carb diet or intermittent fasting. I'm still a 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes, but I will say that that doesn't mean an entire meal necessarily. So I've been waking up in the mornings. For instance. I'll show you what I've been having. I'm going to sound like a bit of a broken record here, but these are venison sticks peppered. They have between 9 and 11 grams of protein each. This is with 100% wild harvested.
Listen from Maui Nui like Maui has in the island Nui and UI and full disclosure. I mean I ended up loving these guys so much that I invested in the company, but that is not why I consume this three of these I can stick them in a backpack. That's my 30 grams and I will have these first thing in the morning then go for a walk with Molly for about a half hour. That's when I will have my first caffeine. I will sit down with the 5-minute Journal which is something I have reintegrated into my life.
Referring back to what I mentioned earlier about taking the things that work and reapplying them ensuring you are doing them as opposed to constantly adding the new the new the new so three of these sticks go for a walk for half hour half my first caffeine sit down five-minute Journal get up half hour back and then by that point I will probably have some type of small meal. This will likely be around 10 a.m. Let's say maybe a little bit earlier.
And then I'll postpone that's probably on the order of 400 calories to 500 calories and then I will have my first real meal per se as lunch. Let's call it at 1 p.m. Something like that. But I have just seen better results for people with 30 G within 30 minutes of waking up. It's very straightforward. It's very clear. There's no gray area and it seems to kick-start the metabolic Machinery in a way that is
Very helpful for cognition for sustained energy for a million different things and there are if you follow the letter of the law per se very few ways, you can screw that up with intermittent fasting. There are a lot of ways you can screw that up and we don't have to get into all the ways. There are many people who thrive on intermittent fasting but there are a lot of ways you can screw it up and if you look at for instance what I wrote in the
for our chef and the 4-Hour Body but especially in the 4-Hour Chef is it related to accelerated learning failure points identifying the failure points and removing as many failure points as possible 30 G within 30 minutes of waking up avoids dozens of different possible dietary failure points and body recomposition failure points as well. If you're trying to maintain muscle mass and decrease your fat mass then I simply find this to be more consistent.
More people in what I've seen, this is from a drummer. What's your approach for managing fear of death? I loved your practical thoughts on suicide article from years ago. It helped me through some tough times. Thank you. You're very welcome. You have people have not read that if you're in a dark place certainly call a hotline a suicide hotline if you need to but I do have a blog post about my darkest period called some practical thoughts and suicide if anyone might find that helpful right now terms of managing fear of death. I think that my
I fear I need to manage is not fear of death. It's fear of The Descent to death. So losing my health span my cognition my physical performance and I haven't really figured that out fully to be honest, and maybe I never will but in terms of fear of death, I find stoicism very very helpful and show you an oldie here. This is literally again harkening back to rereading or reintegrating the things that have worked.
This is a book from the Harvard Classics with Play-Doh Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. I would say Seneca certainly is a fantastic addition in terms of Memento Mori remembering you are going to die. I find and I'm not recommending this to all people at all. But if you have what would be described as mystical experiences and you can in a sense assess these things with?
With questionnaires as they have done at Johns Hopkins and so on with psilocybin assisted therapies, when you have these Transcendent experiences where your ego seems to dissolve that could be through psychedelics. It could be through any number of different spiritual traditions and practices Could Happen spontaneously could happen in meditation and it often does an experienced meditators or in some people the very first time they try a new type of meditation. They will have this experience.
Of Vanishing having the self vanish for a brief period of time that was my experience a very first time I did Transcendental Meditation and then I spent the next ten plus years trying to get back to that state which turns out to be pretty common. But once you've tasted that for me at least it begs the question is that so different from lights out. Is it possible to then also be the Observer even when the self is
Sting wished is it possible to experience what we consider Consciousness even without any identity 2.2 and I think the answer is yes also as navall Robert Kahn, I guess his said before he's like you remember what it was like before you were born. It's like yeah like that. So since sitting here right now, I can't say I was terrified before I was born. Maybe it is very much the same and of course there are infinite possibilities and
Every tradition we can imagine has come up with some working theory of what happens in the afterlife, but for better for worse, that is our sentences humans is to be aware of mortality. But those are a few things that I have found helpful myself, very kind words in the comments. Thank you guys. I really enjoy doing this. I'm thrilled that I get to do it and really appreciate you all being here. All right, this is from Carlos what exercises / techniques work to get rid?
Of your back pain after the podcast episodes with Shirley's Armin PT PhD. There are a number of things that have been very helpful. I'm still working on it is the short answer but there are some portable traction devices that I found quite helpful. Let me grab it. It's right next to me because I have been going to a sports Doctor Who uses a very sophisticated traction device, but I travel so much. I don't always have access to this. So this right here is called Fisher traction, and it basically wraps around it.
Handle, and then goes around your waist and you lay on your back and Scoot yourself away to apply traction and then you relieve the traction every five minutes or so. And you do repetitions of this. I just listen to an audiobook or hop on the phone and do that. I found that incredibly helpful for gapping a bit, especially on my low back right side say between L4 L5 where I have some stenosis and nerve impingement because of a bulging disk. I have found
And focusing on internal rotation and external rotation very helpful. That's something that surely underscored for me definitely focusing on Terminal hip extension when walking so ensuring that I'm pushing off of my toe. In other words ensuring that I am pushing off and getting that last bit of the stride as opposed to pulling my leg forward with the hip flexor instead of pulling it Forward. Stop Pull It Forward stop. I'm trying to push off and make sure
Feel that in my toe on each foot and then have that leg swing through and on top of that. There are any number of different things I could add to this of course, but foam rolling the piriformis and the IT bands and tfl. I've found incredibly helpful. I use a hyper eyes vibrating foam roller which seems to relieve spasms much more effectively than other things and then avoiding certain things. So if I sit on a very hard wooden chair my
I ql my quadratus lumborum and external obliques and so on will spasm to try to support that area because of the compression sensitivity. So I just have a small pillow that I throw on my car. So if I go to a restaurant, I'll just bring that in sounds ridiculous, but for right now it really really helps also having proper chair ergonomics setup. So even at this kitchen table where I'm doing this recording right now, I'm sitting in an Aeron chair with lumbar support with some foot elevation on the floor so that I
Have support instead of say leaning forward on my elbows the whole time and fidgeting back and forth in such a way that causes the stabilizing muscles to light up and then ultimately spasm. Hopefully that is helpful. And yes to everyone who's asking I have read this are no books. I'm going to reread them but not all back pain is emotional or psychological. Some of it is absolutely I'm going to reread these things the last year.
or of my life has been incredibly stressful from a relationship perspective, especially having a five-year relationship and roughly one year ago and all of the shifting Sands that have come about after that has been very very challenging and I think I doubled down on a lot as a way to occupy myself to weather that storm which I don't actually view as a bad coping strategy, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are emotional components and
I have very clear structural biomechanical issues that also have some explanatory power and I do know doctors including the sports doctor. I referred to earlier who are very close with Sarno and constantly debated with him about these types of thing. If somebody gets in a car accident suddenly, they have back pain, they never had before maybe it's the car accident not just their emotional response to the car accident and it's kind of insulting to the patient. I think to always insist that it is in
Head per se at the same time. I would say that pain perception of pain pain patterning and psycho-emotional health and the stories. We tell ourselves our seemingly very intertwined. So I don't want to dismiss that and a lot of pain I think can be at least partially explained with a lot of what sort of describes take a look at a few more and then I got to go because I'm actually talking about back pain. I'm going to a pilates class and for those people who play
ladies if you work with someone who is very very very technical and they're very good at addressing the core maintaining proper pelvis position. It makes everything better. I'm just going to say makes everything everything better and that goes for top athletes as well. Even if I were at the peak of my competitive Powers, one of the things I would have said to myself 30 years ago was do Pilates two or three times a week. It is going to check a lot of boxes and cover a lot of bases.
Is you are not covering and it will minimize the likelihood of chronic pain and injury later. A lot of people ask me for dating advice. I don't think I'm in a position to give dating advice. I'm not bad at dating. I'm actually good at it. But ask somebody who you know dated around and then met the love of their life now, they have three kids and I have got all that shit figured out. It's like don't go to the morbidly obese guy and ask him how to lose weight. I mean, I'm not saying that
That's who I am equivalent wise in the relationship realm but like the proof is in the pudding. So I would say maybe listen to Arthur Seabrooks and other folks on that more. Although I will say that in this Modern Age it is uniquely bizarre to date with digital tools and apps and also all of these social dynamics that play especially in the United States. It is fucking insane. So there is that, but I'm not
Overly concerned about it. I will figure it out my favorite movie of the last two years, you know, I'm thinking about re-watching actually one of my favorites too Spirited Away, which I mentioned already and then also a profit or nonprofit to French film. I won't ruin it by telling you anything about the story but it is beautifully shot also quite brutal but it is a hero's journey paraic stalls in a very modern setting so people can check that out if they would like to check it out.
Is a pre submit a question from Chris. What is one book you love that was better the second time around and why there are many but I would say that on writing by Stephen King. You really can't read about fiction until you've tried some fiction. So once I tried my hand at more fiction in the form of the legend of cock Bunch, you guys have no idea what that is. You can Google it then it meant a lot more to read say and lamotte's writing or the writing of other writers on the craft of fiction. Also the moral letters to Luke.
Least the letters of Seneca if you want to find those for free you can just search The Tao of Seneca and I put together a bunch of PDFs with fantastic artwork and calligraphy and so on because there's a lot of overlap in the the stoic and Buddhist philosophies and belief systems, and I wanted to highlight that so if you just Google Tao of Seneca, you will find a bunch of PDFs for free. Here's one more from Shelby. How do you break -
Of self talk I would say gratitude practice easy way to embrace that is using something like five minutes journal and DBT dialectical behavioral therapy. I think is undervalued underutilized and very impressively systematize in a way that lends it to scientific study, which is incredibly rare and impressive in a world where psychiatric tools are notoriously squishy.
Hard to evaluate. So DBT would also be on the short list and I would say if you wanted something that is very graspable the work by Byron Katie and turnarounds. She has worksheets available for free online is incredibly incredibly helpful continues to be helpful for me personally as well. Alright guys, I'm going to go do some exercise encourage everyone to do the same and I appreciate you all tuning in. Hopefully, this was helpful.
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