Q&A with Tim Ferriss — How to Live with Urgency

I answer questions on how I’ve changed my mind around parenthood, what’s next for me and how I am thinking about next steps, how I find joy, how to live with urgency, my advice for career reinvention in the age of AI, avoiding complacency, and much, much more. Sponsors: Ramp easy-to-use corporate cards, bill payments, accounting, and more: https://Ramp.com/Tim (Get $250 when you join Ramp) Helix Sleep premium mattresses: https://HelixSleep.com/Tim (25% off all mattress orders, plus two free pillows) AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: https://DrinkAG1.com/Tim (1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase.) *** Links to everything discussed: https://tim.blog/2024/11/20/qa-with-tim-ferriss-3/ Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ [00:00] Start [01:02] Q&A format and ground rules. [01:30] My shift in perspective on parenting and fatherhood. [04:18] New creative directions: games, comics, animation. [06:42] Identity diversification. [14:45] Simple pleasures: outdoor activities, meditation, archery. [20:41] Using AI to keep questioning fresh and relevant. [24:51] Breaking through periods of feeling unsuccessful. [32:56] Exploring the fringes and growing personally over the past decade. [43:25] Longevity protocols and handling grief. [53:14] Coping with the loss of a pet. [54:35] Ecstatic creativity à la Rick Rubin and CØCKPUNCH. [01:04:00] Physiological awareness and self-regulation. [01:09:45] Finding career relevance in an AI-transformed landscape. [01:18:21] Parting thoughts.

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Nov 20, 20241h 19mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released: November 20, 2024
Duration: 1h 19m
Channel: Tim Ferriss
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

I answer questions on how I’ve changed my mind around parenthood, what’s next for me and how I am thinking about next steps, how I find joy, how to live with urgency, my advice for career reinvention in the age of AI, avoiding complacency, and much, much more. Sponsors: Ramp easy-to-use corporate cards, bill payments, accounting, and more: https://Ramp.com/Tim (Get $250 when you join Ramp) Helix Sleep premium mattresses: https://HelixSleep.com/Tim (25% off all mattress orders, plus two free pillows) AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement: https://DrinkAG1.com/Tim (1-year supply of Vitamin D (and 5 free AG1 travel packs) with your first subscription purchase.) *** Links to everything discussed: https://tim.blog/2024/11/20/qa-with-tim-ferriss-3/ Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 900 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Follow the Tim Ferriss Podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss Blog: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ [00:00] Start [01:02] Q&A format and ground rules. [01:30] My shift in perspective on parenting and fatherhood. [04:18] New creative directions: games, comics, animation. [06:42] Identity diversification. [14:45] Simple pleasures: outdoor activities, meditation, archery. [20:41] Using AI to keep questioning fresh and relevant. [24:51] Breaking through periods of feeling unsuccessful. [32:56] Exploring the fringes and growing personally over the past decade. [43:25] Longevity protocols and handling grief. [53:14] Coping with the loss of a pet. [54:35] Ecstatic creativity à la Rick Rubin and CØCKPUNCH. [01:04:00] Physiological awareness and self-regulation. [01:09:45] Finding career relevance in an AI-transformed landscape. [01:18:21] Parting thoughts.

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Tim Ferriss
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Entrepreneur, author, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show, known for topics like fear-setting, journaling, and experimentation.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Tim Ferriss, Q&A with Tim Ferriss — How to Live with Urgency explores tim Ferriss on urgency: distance, reinvention, joy, and self-regulation Tim Ferriss says constant motion and hyper-productivity can prevent the distance needed for uncommon, high-leverage thinking.

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