Listener Favorites: Tim Ferriss | Making the Impossible Possible
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're excited to have Tim Ferriss back on the show. Tim has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He is an angel investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and 20+ more) and author of The Four Hour Work Week, The Four Hour Chef, and The Four Hour Body.
In this episode, we explore the concept of peak performance and making the impossible possible. Tim shares his insights on how to develop an individualized style of competition, compensate for your weaknesses, capitalize on your strengths, and push beyond what you think is humanly possible.
We delve into the mindset that allows people to become extremely successful and discuss the importance of energy and attention management. Tim also shares his thoughts on how to look at success holistically and absorb the qualities of our mentors through osmosis.
Timothy Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012. He is an angel investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and 20+ more) and author of The Four Hour Work Week, The Four Hour Chef, and The Four Hour Body.
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| 0:00.0 | really wealthy in my mind and what makes what allows someone to amass that amount of money. |
| 0:06.8 | The first question, what makes someone truly wealthy I think is a combination of not just |
| 0:12.2 | achievement because it's easy, it's very easy to default to racking up sort of feathers in the cap |
| 0:18.0 | and more money and obsess on those types of measurables by focusing as an A type personality on |
| 0:24.0 | achievement, just doing more and earning more. The bigger challenge for people who are hardwired |
| 0:31.6 | that way and I'm certainly this way is balancing that with appreciating what you have and that is |
| 0:38.5 | a necessary component because if you don't appreciate what you have now, you will never appreciate |
| 0:45.6 | what you get later. |
| 0:52.1 | I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories |
| 0:57.2 | and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, built |
| 1:01.2 | driving businesses, written best selling books and created an insanely interesting art. |
| 1:05.6 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com |
| 1:09.8 | Tim, welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. |
| 1:17.7 | Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Yeah, so you know, you don't really need much of an introduction. |
| 1:22.2 | It'd be kind of ridiculous because I would assume that just about every single person listening |
| 1:26.5 | unless they've been, you know, in a cave for the last 10 years probably knows who you are. |
| 1:32.3 | So, you know, you've actually been a guest on our show before when we were called Blogcast FM |
| 1:36.8 | and this was when a four hour chef came out and this time I wanted to do a sort of dive into parts |
| 1:43.1 | of your story that have never been told before and you know, really where I wanted to start |
| 1:49.1 | is looking back, you know, before high school, you know, before Princeton, all of that into sort |
| 1:54.8 | of the pivotal moments, you know, growing up that have led you to, you know, where you're at |
| 1:59.9 | in your journey. So would you be willing to talk about some of that whole experience? |
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