Tim Ferriss: Seriousness is Kryptonite to Creativity

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This week, I'm revisiting one of my favorite conversations with my good friend Tim Ferriss. For those of you who don’t already know, Tim is an entrepreneur, angel investor, author of 3 New York Times Best Sellers, and host of “The Tim Ferriss Show,” a podcast that receives millions of downloads each week.

Tim is widely considered a human guinea pig and has self-experimented his way through unfamiliar territory time and time again. He has a keen ability to simplify complicated systems into tangible, actionable steps showing us we truly can learn and do anything.

In this week’s episode, Tim and I discuss the importance of rigging the game of life in your favor. The feeling of winning is a precursor to winning on a large scale. So how can we give ourselves more of that feeling?

We also get into:

The compound effect of positive actions
Setting realistic goals. Tim’s rule for writing is 2 crappy pages a day.
Viewing that negative, nagging voice as an annoying roommate, one that you definitely do not have to listen to.
Transcendental meditation, and how a medication practice can quiet that negative internal dialogue
Positive constraints; learning to do more with less, so you’ll know how to do more with more.

And much more.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	You know this to be true.
0:06.2	When you are using your own and aid gifts, the gifts that you see in your mind's eye, in your
0:16.5	head, in your heart, things that you are good at.
0:18.8	When you're using those gifts, work doesn't feel like work.
0:25.2	The world feels effortless.
0:27.3	Your cup runneth over.
0:31.5	And on today's show, we talk about how to rig the game,
0:35.6	rig your life so that you can do this more often so that you can win.
0:41.5	And I cannot think of a better vessel for this information to come from than my dear friend, Tim Ferriss.
0:51.2	So, welcome to the show, the Chase Jarvis Live show here on Creative Live.
0:54.7	You know this show where I sit down with legends and unpack their brains.
0:59.0	And in this episode, I get to unpack the brain at one of my favorite humans, Mr. Timothy
1:03.0	Ferris.
1:03.5	Dear, dear friend for more than a decade, I just had the good fortune of spending the weekend
1:07.6	with him in Austin, Texas.
1:10.2	And, gosh, so many good, rich conversations.
1:15.6	If you're not familiar with Tim, I would be shocked. But in case you are not, I don't want
1:22.6	you to feel bad about it because learning, you're in for a treat today, right? Just a little recap. He has done
1:30.3	so many things, one of the most, I think, powerful, potent writers of our time. He started his
1:36.0	writing career with a book called The Four Hour Work Week, which was incredibly prescient and
1:41.5	way ahead of its time.
1:48.4	Ironically, there's an article in The New Yorker just this last weekend called Revisiting the Four Hour Work Week.
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