Episode 049 Tim Answers Your 10 Most Popular Questions
Summary
- Tim Ferriss is answering the 10 most popular questions submitted by listeners
- He suggests tools such as Unbounce, Optimizely, Visual Website Optimizer, and Kickstarter for creating a business
- He is considering writing a 10th anniversary edition of The 4 Hour Work Week and a book of case studies
- His main communication technique for networking with people of higher status is volunteering and writing
- To focus on one idea long enough to bring it to fruition, he suggests the Pomodoro technique and having a scripted morning routine
- Start the day with a scripted routine for the first 60 minutes to conserve decisionmaking and optimize mental state
- Aim for big, exciting goals to stay enthusiastic and avoid quitting
- Contraction and contamination of cycles due to social media and other technologies can have a big impact on markets
- Meditate in the morning and take a hot bath with Epsom salts at night to bookend the day
- Exercise to improve mental performance and kick yourself out of a lazy, halfdepressive mindset
- Experimenting with motion to achieve flow, such as skiing or surfing
- Making decisions involves cutting away other options and recognizing there is an opportunity cost
- Choosing the lead domino to focus on that will facilitate other objectives
- Judging success based on process, not outcomes
- Repopulating microbiome, avoiding artificial sweeteners, and micronutrient testing
- Exercise focusing on mobility, swimming, calisthenics, and breathing exercises
- Balancing desire to challenge and improve self with enjoying indulgences of successful life
- Money is currency and can be used to trade for possessions or experiences.
- Having control over one's time allows one to produce experiences that are more valuable than possessions.
- Low burn rate and not competing with the Jones' allows one to focus on experiences.
- Luxury is feeling unrushed and having high leverage with many options.
- Tim Ferriss recommends Japanese horseback archery, but does not recommend it.
- Tim Ferriss can be contacted on Twitter @TFerriss or on his blog.