Tim Ferriss | Defining Moments, Dealing with Fear, Productivity and More
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
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🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Tim is the renowned author of The 4-Hour Work Week among other books (including his latest Tools of Titans). We spoke about a variety of topics including his defining moment, how he deals with fear, his writing process, his "Life Word," tips and strategies that help him excel and much more. We also talked about his new #1 New York Times bestselling book, Tools of Titans (which is a phenomenal resource that I highly recommend). Many of Tim's answers were not only surprising but filled with nuggets of wisdom that I think you will enjoy, I know I did.- Jon
"Reality is more negotiable than you think." - Tim Ferriss
"The little things actually are the big things." - Tim Ferriss
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, I'm John Gourd. I'm here with Tim Ferris. Tim we're going to talk about your |
| 0:17.6 | incredible book, new book, Tools of Titans, really excited about this book. I love it. I I'm getting a lot of great |
| 0:25.7 | information from it already, but before we get into that I really want to talk to you |
| 0:29.6 | about just a little about you. I want to really have people who may not know you because a lot of my people who maybe read my books follow me may not know a lot about you would like to you know share a little about yourself. So I know you're from Long Island but where are you in where you from |
| 0:46.3 | Long Island this I'm from Long Island as well. Sure I was I was born in |
| 0:50.1 | Southampton Hospital and then I was raised as a townie in the Hamptons so I actually grew |
| 0:56.6 | up just outside of the village of East Hampton and that is a weird place to grow up. I mean, there's a very sharp contrast |
| 1:04.0 | between the haves and the hab-noth, |
| 1:05.6 | which is true of any kind of resort town |
| 1:08.0 | that you could possibly imagine, |
| 1:09.4 | but that is where I grew up. |
| 1:11.0 | So I grew up going to go to public school on Eastern Long Island. |
| 1:14.0 | So what was that like for you growing up there? |
| 1:18.0 | It was, you get to see the best and the worst of human nature, I think, when you have massive influxes from Manhattan so I worked |
| 1:24.4 | as a cleaner in an ice cream shop and then as a bus boy in a lot of restaurants and you can see a big difference between say that the self-made folks like Billy Joel. |
| 1:37.3 | So Billy Joel was fantastic. He actually came in and I was, I don't know, 13 13 14 and I served him coffee every I think it was Sunday you come |
| 1:46.2 | in read the paper have a coffee and tip 20 dollars which to me at the time was like winning |
| 1:50.7 | Powerball it was just incredible so So that made a huge impression I mean he was also very |
| 1:55.8 | willing to talk. He was not standoffish. But then you had a lot of kind of entitled folks who are either |
| 2:06.8 | looking to see and be seen in the Hamptons or who were not self-made, was just part of the Lucky Sperm Club or had married into money and very often not always but you saw some really |
| 2:16.8 | abhorrent behavior and I just remember thinking to myself if I ever make it if I'm ever |
| 2:22.4 | successful and can find my way that I want to be more like the former and not like the latter. |
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