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🗓️ 14 June 2013
⏱️ 134 minutes
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join lifehacker and professional masochist tim ferriss and aisha as they slice through the pursuit of excellence, accelerated learning, diminishing returns, results addiction, the peculiarity of the ivy league, intellectual intimidation, creating evangelists, field dressing, and being ready. plus tim narrowly escapes a grizzly mauling, and aisha really wants a spider hole. girl on guy is ready for the shit to hit the fan.
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0:00.0 | This episode of Girl on Guy is special bonus content available only to Girl on Guy app users. |
0:06.0 | This is Girl on Guy. |
0:23.0 | Hey everybody, this is a very special episode of Girl on Guy |
0:28.0 | for my premium subscribers. |
0:30.0 | Welcome to the show. |
0:31.0 | I've been trying to get this person on Girl on Guy for 1 million years. |
0:36.0 | His name is Tim Ferris and if you don't know who he is, he wrote, he's written three best-selling books. |
0:42.0 | The first of which was called The Four Hour Workweek. |
0:45.0 | It was all about optimizing the way you do things to make yourself more efficient and more effective. |
0:50.0 | So that you could spend less time working and more time doing other shit. |
0:55.0 | And that was incredible. |
0:56.0 | Even though those were rejected by all of the publishers in the entire world, |
1:00.0 | it eventually did get published and was a huge success and was followed up by a book called The Four Hour Body, |
1:05.0 | which is the first book that I read by Tim, which was all about, again, optimizing the way that you exercise and eat |
1:10.0 | so that you get the maximum return for the minimum investment because as you know, I am slammed |
1:15.0 | and I would love to have workout that I could do for 90 seconds and get four hours in the gym results. |
1:22.0 | I don't know if that's exactly how the book works, but it's incredibly interesting, the strategies that he came up with, |
1:28.0 | which were based on science and studies and his own personal research and the research of very small. |
1:32.0 | And I think he might agree, relatively on scientific focus groups, but people that he knew in his life. |
1:38.0 | But he is really very focused on science and testing and metrics. |
1:42.0 | So if you're interested in improving your life in any way, this is your guy. |
1:45.0 | He is controversial, he's polarizing. |
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