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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 22 - Tim Ferriss: Possibilities and Experimentation

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Business, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2014

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week James hosts his good friend and best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss.Before every interview, James spends hours reviewing his guest's work so he can come up with something different and something very special.This interview proved to be the most difficult in regard to preparation, so far. Not because Tim Ferriss doesn't have anything interesting to talk about (quite the opposite), but because James didn't want to ask him the same old questions he gets asked on every interview. "Can you really only work 4 hours a week?" "Did you really do the things you wrote about?" "Is it actually possible to get the results that you did?" Blah, Blah, Blah.Tim Ferriss has done many different, interesting things besides writing his "4 hour series," and James explores many of those passions on this podcast.And don't worry, this isn't "The 4 Hour Podcast." But almost. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.5

This is the James Altature Show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:11.2

This is James Altature with the James Altature Show and I don't even need to introduce

0:22.5

you.

0:23.5

Tim Ferris, you've done a billion things.

0:26.4

Welcome to the show.

0:27.4

Thanks for having me.

0:28.7

Really happy to be here.

0:29.9

Tim, I have one small beef to pick with you which I'm going to bring up.

0:33.8

We know each other now.

0:34.8

We've known each other for I guess about almost a year and a half since a conference

0:39.6

like at the end of 2012 or 2011.

0:42.5

I think one of those years.

0:44.2

But before that, you released the four-hour body and Claudian I were around the corner

0:52.0

in the freezing cold waiting to get into that event in downtown New York.

0:57.0

I'm so sorry.

0:59.8

We were cold.

1:01.4

That was a mess.

1:02.4

That was such a mess.

1:03.4

One thing just a word to the wise for people listening.

1:05.6

If you ever hold an event in the winter and it might be a crowded venue, make sure that

1:12.4

if they have a mandatory coach check for fire code that they tell you about it beforehand.

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