Deep work & focus

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Bob Dylan's obsessive apprenticeship and the value of going where the action is

Tim Ferriss December 31, 2025

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 8

Vision & mission 6

• Dylan mastered folk music obsessively before he ever innovated
• He hitchhiked to New York to find one specific mentor: Woody Guthrie
• Physical epicenters multiply luck — serendipity can't be prompted

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Mental health & wellbeing

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Arthur Brooks on meaning, suffering, and the right-hemisphere life

Tim Ferriss December 23, 2025

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Mental health & wellbeing 8

Physical & cognitive performance 7

Relationships & family 6

• Meaning has three macronutrients: coherence, purpose, and significance
• Modern life traps us in the left hemisphere — away from meaning
• Suffering avoided is meaning lost; lean into it to find both

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Physical & cognitive performance

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Lessons from Charles Poliquin and other mentors on movement and strength

Tim Ferriss December 5, 2025

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Physical & cognitive performance 8

Physical health & longevity 6

• Poliquin's regret: he wished he'd trained flexibility far sooner
• Trace ideas to their source — the backwards sled came from Finnish loggers
• Low-volume ankle work done consistently beat years of high-effort rehab

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Founder interviews

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Frank Miller on breaking into comics and finding a mentor

Tim Ferriss November 1, 2025

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 6

Hiring & recruitment 5

• Why comics' biggest creative tension is tradition vs. experimentation
• Neal Adams ran a studio that was a training ground for a generation
• Asking to improve after brutal rejection got Miller in the door

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Physical & cognitive performance

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Ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting for metabolic and brain health

Tim Ferriss September 8, 2025

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Physical & cognitive performance 9

Physical health & longevity 5

• Four weeks of ketosis unlocked a decade-best blood panel
• Poor insulin sensitivity accelerates neurodegeneration — it's fixable
• IF without resistance training loses muscle, not fat

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Relationships & family

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Reframing kids' behaviour: fault vs. responsibility and the MGI framework

Tim Ferriss April 25, 2025

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Relationships & family 9

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Fault is useless — responsibility is what actually drives change
• The MGI reframes your child's worst behaviour as understandable
• Your mindset determines your interventions — LGI makes good parenting impossible

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Physical health & longevity

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Tendon repair, isometric training, and connective tissue science with Dr. Keith Baar

Tim Ferriss February 27, 2025

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Physical health & longevity 8

Physical & cognitive performance 6

• Boots and rest make tendon injuries worse — load them the next day
• Eccentrics work only because they slow velocity; isometrics do it better
• A common blood pressure drug raises Achilles rupture risk 7.6-fold

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Founder interviews

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Chris Sacca on living by your own rules, AI disruption, and what's left to bet on

Tim Ferriss January 23, 2025

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 8

Niche selection 6

• AI will shred the white-collar social contract faster than anyone admits
• Unpredictability and feral experience are the last things AI cannot replicate
• Fusion is here now; clean energy unit economics have already flipped

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Physical & cognitive performance

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Guided Zen meditation for presence and nervous system calm

Tim Ferriss January 13, 2025

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Physical & cognitive performance 8

Work-life balance 5

• The body never time-travels — it's the fastest anchor to now.
• Being present with your body reduces stress even in stressful moments.
• 10 seconds of body awareness throughout the day is enough to shift state.

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Productivity & habits

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Essentialism, effortless execution, and finding meaning in 2025

Tim Ferriss January 9, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 8

Goal setting 6

• The most important thing in your life is least likely to get done.
• Pre-mortems, microbursts, and Phelps-style routines prevent execution failure.
• Meaning — not productivity — is the real antidote to modern psychological strain.

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Founder interviews

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Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose: 2025 predictions, health, and new year habits

Tim Ferriss January 2, 2025

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Founder interviews 10

Physical health & longevity 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• US government adding Bitcoin to reserves could push price to $250K
• Ten minutes of Zen meditation twice daily matched $50K of TMS therapy
• New year reservations beat resolutions: book it or it won't happen

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