optimal minimal

at this altitude i can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking

can i also request a question

now i just see the perfect time

what i did the other day

and my cybernetic organism living to show a metal impulse

go on

lead to ferris show

hello boys and girls ladies and germs this is Tim Ferris welcome to another episode of the

tim ferris show this special and very short episode requires just a little bit of backstory

cal new part bestselling author of deep work was the first of several people to recommend

a book to me called four thousand weeks the subtitle is time management for mortals

but that doesn't quite capture the core of this book it's an unusual book the author is

Oliver Berkman that's bu r ke ma n i recently read it

devoured the whole thing over a few days and captured hundreds of kindle highlights in the process

it's quite unlike anything i've ever read and it's perhaps a philosophical operating system

of sorts and one of my favorite chapters was cosmic insignificance therapy even by itself this

chapter left me with a profound sense of calm that lasted several days it seems to stick for some

reason so in short i loved the book my team reached out to Oliver to see if we could publish this

chapter cosmic insignificance therapy on the podcast and blog and here we are you can find a link to

the book in the description of this episode and you can also find the full text of the chapter

over at tim.blog slash cosmic that's ti m dot b l o g slash c o s m i c and once again the book

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