The Best of Tim Ferriss
10+ most popular Tim Ferriss articles, as voted by our community.
Author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, early-stage investor (http://angel.co/tim), Tim Ferriss Show podcast (900M+ downloads), founder of http://saiseifoundation.org
Tim Ferriss on Apathy
Jack Kornfield — How to Overcome Apathy, Find Beautiful Purpose, Befriend Anger, and Make Your Own Damn…
Interview with Jack Kornfield on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Tim Ferriss on Better Living
Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, The Life-Changing Power of Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, Life…
Interview with Seth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Tim Ferriss on Crafts
Cal Newport — The Eternal Pursuit of Craftsmanship, the Deep Life, Slow Productivity, and a 30-Day Digital…
Interview with Cal Newport on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Tim Ferriss on Decision Making
Finding The One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020)
Donald Knuth, a renowned mathematician and recipient of the Turing Award (considered the Nobel Prize of computer science), retired from using email in 1990. He issued a public statement on hi…
Tim Ferriss on Essentialism
Greg McKeown — How to Create Spaciousness, Move from Essentialism to Effortless, and Quiet the Mind (#510)
Interview with Greg McKeown on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Tim Ferriss on Learning
Professor John Vervaeke — On Cultivating Wisdom, Finding Flow States, The Power and Perils of Intuition, The…
Interview with John Vervaeke on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
«Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness. So you understand wisdom by understanding foolishness, and you understand foolishness as not identical to ignorance.”»
Tim Ferriss on Podcasting
Why I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment
Greetings! This is a quick public service announcement: I will be stopping the fan-supported podcast experiment and moving back to an ad-supported podcast. This post will explain a few of the reaso…
Tim Ferriss on Psychedelics
Marcela Ot’alora — The Art and Science of Psychedelic Therapy and Healing (#396)
“The only way to not be afraid of someone’s suffering is if you’re not afraid of your own.” — Marcela Ot’alora G. Marcela Ot’alora G. is a psychotherapist and an…
Psychedelics — Microdosing, Mind-Enhancing Methods, and More (#377)
This episode features a panel that I moderated in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference 2019. It includes a great overview of psychedelic science, in…
Tim Ferriss on Self Actualization
Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self-Actualization, and Advice from Your Future Self (#412)
“I think of learning as unobstructed self-expression.”— Josh Waitzkin Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, is an eight-time US National…
Tim Ferriss on Speed Reading
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
(Photo: Dustin Diaz) How much more could you get done if you completed all of your required reading in 1/3 or 1/5 the time? Increasing reading speed is a process of controlling fine motor movement&…
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Jonathan Haidt — The Coddling of the American Mind, How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, and How to…
Interview with Jonathan Haidt on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
The Choice-Minimal Lifestyle: 6 Formulas for More Output and Less Overwhelm
Photo: CyboRoz I was stressed out… over dog cartoons. It was 9:47pm at Barnes and Noble on a recent Saturday night, and I had 13 minutes to find a suitable exchange for “The New Yorker Dog Cartoons…
Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics
Vanity metrics: good for feeling awesome, bad for action. (photo source: UK Guardian) This is a guest post by serial entrepreneur Eric Ries. He was most recently co-founder and CTO of IMVU, which h…
Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck — The Surprising Stories Behind 15+ Million…
Interview with Mark Manson on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
Will MacAskill of Effective Altruism Fame — The Value of Longtermism, Tools for Beating Stress and Overwhelm,…
Interview with Will MacAskill on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast
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