#557: Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show
Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
4.6 • 17.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Q&A with Tim — Tools for Better Sleep, Musings on Parenting, the Different Roles of Fear, the Delight of Deepening Friendships, the Purpose of College, How to Boost Your Mood, HRV Training, and More | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, GiveWell.org charity research and effective giving, and Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating. More on all three below.
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different format, and I’m the guest.
As some of you know, I tested a “fan-supported model” in 2019, but I ended up returning to ads by request. That’s a long story, and you can read more about it at tim.blog/podcastexperiment. I recently sat down with the supporter group for a fun and live Q&A on YouTube.
I answered questions on plantar fasciitis relief, manga-assisted language learning and retention, breathing exercises, wolf conservation, parenting ambitions, VR therapy, mood and energy remedies, post-pandemic social reintroduction, the value of college, favorite wrestling movies, and much, much more.
Please enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Give Well. |
| 0:02.4 | I love these guys. Donating money to help other people is wonderful. |
| 0:06.1 | But how can you be confident that your donations are actually doing things? |
| 0:09.6 | Are they improving or saving lives effectively? |
| 0:12.4 | It can be really hard to parse. You could do weeks of research to find the charities that are out there. |
| 0:16.1 | What programs they run, what their admin overhead is, |
| 0:19.3 | how effective blah, blah, blah on and on. It can take forever, I know, from experience. |
| 0:24.1 | Doing the research is really hard. |
| 0:26.0 | Or you could simply visit givewell.org for a short vetted list of the charities they've found to be best |
| 0:32.0 | per dollar in donations at saving or improving lives. |
| 0:35.6 | Give Well spends more than 20,000 hours each year researching charitable organizations and only |
| 0:40.0 | recommends a few of the highest impact evidence-backed charities they've found. |
| 0:43.8 | They do all of this without any sign-up fees and without taking a cut of your tax deductible |
| 0:48.0 | donation. Give Well wants to empower as many donors as possible to make informed decisions |
| 0:53.0 | about their donations. Give Well is free. I've recommended givewell.org for a while now and donations |
| 0:58.5 | from listeners of this podcast. That's you guys. I'm out now to roughly $483,399.27. |
| 1:06.4 | So close to $500,000, which is incredible. First and foremost, thanks to everyone who is donated. |
| 1:12.0 | In total, more than 50,000 people have used givewell to donate as effectively as possible. |
| 1:17.8 | And rigorous evidence suggests that these donations will save tens of thousands of lives and improve the |
| 1:22.8 | lives of millions more. So go right now to givewell.org and when you make your first donation, |
| 1:29.5 | your gift will be matched up to $250. This matching offer is good for as long as the funds last. |
| 1:35.3 | So it's time-sensitive and is a great opportunity to multiply your impact, which is something I always |
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