Tim Ferriss
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Tim Ferriss is known for long-form interviews that extract practical insights on performance, decision-making, business building, and investing from elite founders, operators, and thinkers.
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Resilience & grit
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The three types of luck and how 10x winners use them
Tim Ferriss
March 19, 2026
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Vision & mission
5
10x winners get the same luck — they just convert it better.
Who luck and zeit luck are the most overlooked life-changers.
Recognising a 'not all time is equal' moment is the real skill.
Physical & cognitive performance
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Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose: supplements, breathing, balance, and brain health
Tim Ferriss
March 18, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Breathing twice daily may replicate implanted vagus nerve stimulators' anti-inflammatory effects
Methylene blue and infrared photobiomodulation show promise for Alzheimer's prevention
Blood flow restriction training builds muscle with a fraction of the normal weight
Jim Collins's 1,000 creative hours rule and punch card system
Tim Ferriss
March 18, 2026
Time management
9
Deep work & focus
8
Success creates a gravitational pull away from your best work
Collins tracks creative hours daily — 1,000 per year, no exceptions
Every external commitment costs points from a fixed annual punch card
Deep work & focus
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Two hours of daily focused work puts you in the top 1%
Tim Ferriss
March 16, 2026
Deep work & focus
10
Productivity & habits
6
Resilience & grit
5
Deleting social apps from your phone breaks compulsive dopamine loops.
Examining fears reveals the downside is almost always limited.
Two uninterrupted daily hours of focus already beats most people.
Productivity & habits
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How to say no in a world of compulsive yes
Tim Ferriss
March 12, 2026
Productivity & habits
9
Goal setting
5
You can't say no without big enough yeses worth defending
Scripts fail because root beliefs block you before templates help
AI will make distraction catastrophic — a no toolkit is now essential
Relationships & family
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The self-help trap: why relationships beat optimisation
Tim Ferriss
March 11, 2026
Relationships & family
9
Mental health & wellbeing
6
Self-improvement can become a trap that delays living
Deliberately scheduled time with close friends outperforms therapy
Relationships are the practice, not the reward after self-work
Identity & self-belief
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Jim Collins on building a meaningful life across decades
Tim Ferriss
March 5, 2026
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
8
Time management
7
Your best creative work is most likely still ahead of you
Trusting your innate encodings matters more than discovering them
Return on luck, not luck itself, separates remarkable lives
Resilience & grit
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Tim McGraw on finding his father and choosing hope over resentment
Tim Ferriss
February 24, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Relationships & family
5
Discovering your dad is a baseball star you already admired
Tug offered $300/year for silence — Tim demanded truth instead
Absent fathers can give hope without ever being present
Physical & cognitive performance
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Quieting the ruminative mind and escaping the self-help trap
Tim Ferriss
February 24, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
8
Relationships & family
6
Resilience & grit
5
One day of TMS plus an old antibiotic eliminated severe OCD rumination
Self-help becomes a trap when you polish the self instead of living
You can't say no until you have big enough yeses worth defending
Resilience & grit
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How a chance encounter with Stephen Covey ended Steve Young's depression
Tim Ferriss
February 23, 2026
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
You dig your own hole — nobody else pushes you in.
Fear of finding out how good you are keeps you stuck.
One reframe on a plane turned depression into NFL MVP.
Identity & self-belief
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How top performers navigate career transition after elite sport
Tim Ferriss
February 19, 2026
Identity & self-belief
7
Resilience & grit
6
Mental health & wellbeing
5
Treat retirement like a death — mourn it, or you never move on
Roger Staubach's career-ending advice: "Just run away from the game"
The identity collapse hits soldiers and Olympians just as hard as athletes
Founder interviews
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From opera singer to 200+ children's books: Tish Rabe on craft and creativity
Tim Ferriss
February 18, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Productivity & habits
6
Why Sesame Street's ending-first writing rule changed everything
How Dr. Seuss's two rules — rhythm and pure rhyme — shaped 200 books
Starting a children's book company at 71 to publish what publishers won't
Physical & cognitive performance
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How ketosis, fasting, and mood profiling drive peak mental performance
Tim Ferriss
February 11, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
5
Ketosis outperforms SSRIs for mood stabilization, no peaks or troughs
Your innate affect profile determines which mood levers actually work
Fasted zone two cardio cuts negative affect without dampening positive emotion
Founder interviews
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Jordan Jonas on wilderness survival, Siberian nomads, and building resilience
Tim Ferriss
February 11, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
8
Relationships & family
6
Why fat — not protein — is the true bottleneck of wilderness survival
Years with Siberian nomads made Alone Season 6 feel like a normal trip
Purpose that can't be taken from you: lessons from genocide survivors and a dying father
Physical & cognitive performance
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Arthur Brooks' morning protocol for four hours of deep focus
Tim Ferriss
February 6, 2026
Physical & cognitive performance
9
Deep work & focus
5
Delay caffeine 2–3 hours so adenosine clears first
15–20 g creatine daily boosts creativity and offsets poor sleep
Eliminating all interruptions doubles usable creative output