056: Tim Ferriss | Techniques for Better Life

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As one might expect from the author of the “Four Hour Work Week,” Tim Ferriss has a solid, well established routine. He awakes, meditates, exercises, journals, blocks off four hours for creative work, then frees himself for meetings and phone calls. This well balanced approach has taken him far. When the inevitable drudging task comes around he slogs himself through it by building momentum with “Scooby snacks,” short, fun activities preceding the boring ones. From the start of this interview it quickly becomes apparent that Ferris is a wellspring of great advice for anyone who is aiming to build a successful business or life.

Lessons:

1. Narrow things down to one or two things to focus on daily.
2. Volunteer for great organizations then go the extra mile to stand out.
3. Find a small but fast growing company to work for and observe the deal makers at work. Note the kind of questions they ask to get ahead. Example: “I know its impossible, but if there was a way to make it work, what would it be?”
4. When things start going well in business, to maintain focus, separate the great opportunities from the potentially overwhelming number of good ones. Ask yourself, what it the one step that will make all the others irrelevant.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We are interviewing Tim Ferris and even more exciting this is brought to you by audible.com. We are back here in the Pittsfield barn. We've probably
0:20.6	been here for four hours and you think we get a lot done in four hours and
0:25.3	It's raining
0:26.3	If you want to find out how much you get down four hours the guy you want
0:30.1	Congress Tim Ferris and he's written the four hour work week the four hour
0:34.0	The four hour chef it's a lot done in four hours Joda's a doctor for four hours, but in the
0:38.2	not for when you talk to him you find it some pretty amazing tips and tricks
0:41.9	Yeah one of the things he taught me was never forget the people you're sitting to on the right or left.
0:47.2	And so we got Colonel Nye.
0:49.2	Precisely, thank you for that.
0:51.0	We've got separate.
0:52.3	We've got Johnny and we've got Joe and Marion on the camera.
0:55.2	That's one of the things you'll learn from Tim.
0:56.9	Absolutely. But you know what? He really is an incredible guy like some of the most profound process that he's going through the
1:04.7	and I'd say on our behalf like he's really a human guinea pig so let's go see
1:08.9	what Tim Ferris is up to let's do it. We are here in San Francisco, Noe Valley, right,
1:15.1	for Spartan Up Podcast with Tim Ferris.
1:17.8	For those of you that don't know who Tim Ferris is,
1:20.0	he is the four hour guy, four hour body,
1:22.2	right, four hour work week, four hour guy four hour body right four hour work week four hour
1:23.7	everything what don't you do in four hours better for worse four hours don't
1:28.7	sleep for four hours I like more than four hours of sleep was that a marketing
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