#473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
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🗓️ 15 October 2020
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy | Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing, Tonal smart home gym, and ShipStation shipping software
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder and chairman of AngelList. He is an angel investor and has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, OpenDoor, Postmates, and Wish. You can subscribe to Naval, his podcast on wealth and happiness, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Tonal T-O-N-A-L. I'm super excited about this one, |
| 0:05.3 | and I was skeptical of it in the beginning. Tonal, quote, |
| 0:08.8 | tonal is the world's most intelligent home gym and personal trainer. End quote, |
| 0:12.6 | that's the tagline from their website, folks, to give you the one sentence summary. |
| 0:16.7 | And this device, it's really a system, is perfect for anyone looking to take their home workouts |
| 0:21.4 | to the next level, or someone who just wants to get maximum bang for the buck in a tiny, |
| 0:28.4 | footprint of space. Tonal is precision engineered to be the world's most advanced |
| 0:32.7 | strength studio and personal trainer. It uses breakthrough technology of all different types |
| 0:36.4 | to help get you stronger, faster. I was introduced to Tonal by three different friends. |
| 0:40.6 | All of them are tech savvy. One of them is a former competitive skier who's doubled his strength |
| 0:46.0 | in a number of movements using Tonal, even though he has a long athletic background. |
| 0:51.6 | And I'll paint a picture for you. By eliminating traditional metal weights, dumbbells and barbells, |
| 0:56.4 | Tonal can deliver 200 pounds of resistance, which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's actually, |
| 1:00.7 | it feels like a lot more at the high end in a device smaller than a flat screen TV. And you can |
| 1:06.3 | perform at least 150 different exercises. And these different technologies are exclusive to Tonal. |
| 1:13.3 | And you can dial weights up and down with the touch of a button in one pound increments using |
| 1:18.0 | magnets and electricity. So the movement is extremely smooth. And even though I have a home gym |
| 1:23.6 | already in my garage, I'm still getting a Tonal installed. I've used Tonal for multiple workouts |
| 1:29.3 | now to do things I just cannot do in my home gym, such as the chop and lift exercises from the |
| 1:36.1 | four hour body, all sorts of cable exercises that would usually involve much, much bigger piece |
| 1:41.2 | of equipment, eccentric training. For instance, you can do to give a simple example bicep curls where |
| 1:48.1 | you are lifting, let's just say 20 pounds in each hand up and then Tonal will automatically |
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