Two of my, I'm not going to call them resolutions, but themes that I want to follow this year

for myself are beauty and absurdity.

And they go together very nicely.

To do things that are beautiful or absurd that don't necessarily have any explicit end goal

or point to them.

And I don't view that as a waste.

I think that a lot of breakthroughs can come from taking your eye off of the productivity

track for a little bit at the very least and focusing on that.

So what if you could spend pretty much your waking hours sitting down with some of the

most elite performers across nearly every domain from health to art, from business and

investing to athletics.

Nearly if you can think about it, anywhere somebody has risen to a level of mastery and expert

performance.

Well, today's guest Tim Ferris has devoted pretty much his entire adult life to doing

just that.

And along the way, he's been deconstructing their processes, adding on his own awakenings

and syntheses and sharing what he's learned in books and media and podcasts.

He's the author of a huge new book called Tools of Titans.

And in that, he actually shares so many of these lessons, so many of the conversations

with the hundreds of elite level performers that he sat down with in his podcast over the

last chunk of years.

Along with a healthy dose of stuff that he's figured out along the way, this conversation

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