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#701: In Case You Missed It: September 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

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Oct 28, 2023

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Sam Corcos

Sam Corcos, CEO of Levels, shares insights on how continuous glucose monitors can revolutionize health by showing food's impact on our bodies. The conversation explores mastering time management and the importance of a reverse bucket list for achieving personal satisfaction. Listeners also learn about the interplay between resilience and reputation, effective mental models for decision-making, and the benefits of cold therapy. Corcos' perspectives on happiness, risk, and innovation provide actionable strategies for better living.

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Reverse Bucket List

Create a reverse bucket list and cross off achieved items to detach from material desires.
This shifts focus from acquiring more to wanting less, increasing lasting satisfaction.

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Calendar as To-Do List

Translate to-do lists directly into calendar blocks with realistic time estimates.
This reveals actual available time and prevents over-scheduling.

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Email Management

Treat emails as tasks and schedule specific times to respond to them.
This eliminates the ambiguity of an overflowing inbox, reducing stress.

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Redefining Satisfaction: The Power of a Reverse Bucket List

01:36 • 5min

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Mastering Time Management

06:17 • 8min

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Navigating Resilience and Reputation

13:59 • 19min

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Exploring Mental Models and Cognitive Biases

32:40 • 2min

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Exploring Cold Therapy and Lateral Thinking for Enhanced Well-Being

34:51 • 5min

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Insights on Happiness, Risk, and Innovation

40:20 • 8min

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#410

• Mentioned in 42 episodes

Build the Life You Want

The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C Brooks

Oprah Winfrey

In 'Build the Life You Want,' Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey offer a research-based approach to improving one's life by focusing on emotional self-management. The book emphasizes building the four pillars of happiness: family, friendship, work, and faith. It provides practical, science-backed strategies to manage emotions, turn challenges into opportunities, and find inner peace. The authors share their own experiences and those of others who have found joy despite hardships, highlighting the importance of enjoyment, satisfaction, and purpose in achieving a happier life.

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• Mentioned in 50 episodes

Clear Thinking

Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

Shane Parrish

In 'Clear Thinking', Shane Parrish provides a comprehensive manual for improving decision-making and personal growth. The book highlights how most people operate on autopilot, driven by behavioral defaults shaped by biology, evolution, and culture. Parrish offers strategies to recognize and capitalize on pivotal moments between stimulus and response, using stories, mental models, and a 4-stage decision process (define, explore, evaluate, execute). The book aims to help readers build self-knowledge, self-control, and self-confidence, and to make better decisions by balancing emotions with rational thinking and gathering high-quality information.

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• Mentioned in 81 episodes

The Black Swan

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

David Chandler

Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan is a landmark book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that investigates the phenomenon of highly improbable events with massive impacts. These events, termed Black Swans, are unpredictable, have a significant impact, and are rationalized after the fact to appear less random. Taleb argues that humans are hardwired to focus on specifics rather than generalities, leading to a failure to consider what we don’t know. The book delves into cognitive biases, the limitations of mathematical models, and the importance of robustness and antifragility in navigating a world filled with uncertainty. The second edition includes a new essay, 'On Robustness and Fragility,' offering tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.

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Irrational man

a study in existential philosophy.

William Barrett

William Barretts "Irrational Man" ist eine tiefgründige Auseinandersetzung mit der menschlichen Existenz und den Grenzen der Rationalität. Barrett untersucht die existenzialistischen Philosophen wie Kierkegaard, Nietzsche und Sartre und zeigt, wie deren Ideen unser Verständnis von Freiheit, Verantwortung und dem menschlichen Dasein beeinflussen. Er kritisiert die Tendenz der modernen Gesellschaft, Rationalität über alles andere zu stellen und vernachlässigt dabei die irrationalen Aspekte des menschlichen Lebens. Das Buch ist eine Herausforderung an unser Verständnis von Vernunft und Emotion und regt zu kritischer Selbstreflexion an. Es ist ein Klassiker der Existenzialphilosophie, der auch heute noch relevant ist.

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Chaos Kings

Scott Patterson

This episode is brought to you by 5-Bullet Friday, my very own email newsletter.

Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own life.

This is a special inbetweenisode, which serves as a recap of the episodes from last month. It features a short clip from each conversation in one place so you can easily jump around to get a feel for the episode and guest.

Based on your feedback, this format has been tweaked and improved since the first recap episode. For instance, @hypersundays on Twitter suggested that the bios for each guest can slow the momentum, so we moved all the bios to the end.

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Timestamps:

Arthur C. Brooks: 00:03:15

Sam Corcos: 00:06:31

Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson: 00:14:20

Shane Parrish: 00:24:34

The Random Show: 00:35:43

Full episode titles:

Arthur C. Brooks — How to Be Happy, Reverse Bucket Lists, The Four False Idols, Muscular Philosophies, Practical Inoculation Against the Darkness, and More (#692)

Sam Corcos, Co-Founder of Levels — The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Assistants, 10x Delegation, and Winning Freedom by Letting Go (Plus: Creating Leverage with Tools, Systems, and Processes) (#694)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson — How Traders Make Billions in The New Age of Crisis, Defending Against Silent Risks, Personal Independence, Skepticism Where It (Really) Counts, The Bishop and The Economist, and Much More (#691)

Shane Parrish on Wisdom from Warren Buffett, Rules for Better Thinking, How to Reduce Blind Spots, The Dangers of Mental Models, and More (#695)

The Random Show, Rare Drinking Edition — Affordable Luxuries, Brain Stimulation, Sampling the Future (and Some Previews), Recharging with Creative Experiments, Tokenizing Humans with a Bonding Curve, Poetry for People Who Hate Poetry, and Much More (#690)

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