Less Hustle, More Art — Moving to a New Model

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Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Hello, my lovelies! This is an important announcement.

From June – Dec, 2019, I’m removing ads and sponsors from the podcast for a six-month test. The podcast will continue to be 100% free for everyone. There will be no paywall, and no one has to pay for anything.

Instead, the following page — tim.blog/support — offers what many have asked for — a way fans can support. If interested, you can contribute a few (or more) dollars a month to support me doing more crazy experiments and initiatives, or to simply say “thank you” if any of my books, nearly 400 free podcasts, or 1,000+ free blog posts have had a positive impact on you or your loved ones. You can easily cancel anytime at this link.

Since the podcast has become the engine that fuels everything else, if this experiment doesn’t work out after six months, we’ll go back to sponsors. If it works, we’ll stay with fan-supported. Easy peasy.

So, why am I doing this? Two main reasons:

#1 – Sponsors and ads chew up a TON of time that I’d rather spend finding and doing cool things I can share with you. To be clear, I don’t think all advertising is evil. I turn away 90-plus percent of inquiries, personally test everything remaining, and then share the best. I feel good about that, BUT it consumes a lot of my time and energy. I would rather focus on finding, doing, and making cool things that I can share with you. That’s what I love, it’s what I’m good at, and it’s why many of you ended up reading my books or listening to the podcast in the first place.

#2 – Over the years, thousands of readers and fans have asked me, “How can I thank you?” Aside from the books, I’ve never sold any products, courses, or otherwise, nor do I plan to. Fan-supported subscriptions allow people to say “Thank you, and please do more.” If you want to help fuel more experiments, science, and exciting discoveries, you can easily sign up below and contribute to the cause. Think of it as a monthly gym membership for your mind and career. How much would you gladly pay for that?

Then, each time you hear a podcast episode (or see anything from me) that you consider life-changing and want to share with friends, you can smile, knowing that you helped to make it possible.

Please only contribute what you feel great about contributing. This is zero pressure, and I’m not mailing out any beer koozies or other crap you don’t want. I’ll just do and share more good stuff.

Visit tim.blog/support to learn more and contribute.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs, my esteemed and lovely listeners, short version,
0:06.9	I'm getting rid of ads and sponsors for a six-month test, and the podcast will continue to be free,
0:13.8	100% free, nothing behind a paywall, and you can learn more about that and why at tim dot blog forward slash support that's tim dot blog
0:24.2	forward slash support i'd really appreciate if you listen to this message in full it's not going to be
0:29.7	super long so here is a little bit more thousands of you fans readers listeners have asked me over
0:36.0	the years how can i thank you? I want to thank you.
0:38.0	On Twitter and all sorts of other places, what can I do to thank you besides buy your books?
0:43.0	And I've never had a product. I've never wanted to just come up with a product or a course
0:46.6	or fill in the blank. Nonetheless, nearly 400 episodes with the podcast later, 400 million or so
0:52.7	downloads, a thousand plus blog posts
0:55.1	and so on. I've thought about this. And I've thought about it a lot recently because the sponsorship
1:02.5	model, when I actually look at the calendar, it's great on a lot of levels, but it cuts into
1:08.4	time and resources. I'm not learning very much. And it's an elegant model in some
1:15.2	respects. I don't think advertising or sponsorship is evil and I turn away 90 plus percent of my
1:20.2	sponsor inquiries anyway, test everything, reject another 90 percent and only share the stuff
1:25.2	I end up using personally. So I don't feel badly about that at all. I feel really good about it. But it shows up a ton of time and energy for me and my team,
1:32.5	which I would rather spend on doing more experiments, doing more crazy pushing the envelope
1:39.0	stuff that I can then report on and share with you. That is in my power zone.
1:44.3	And it's why many of you ended up reading my books
1:47.7	or listening to this podcast in the first place.
1:49.2	So I'd rather do more of that,
1:51.2	sort of less hustle, more art and experiment.
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