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Tim Ferriss · 39 episodes · 691 sourced insights

What Tim Ferriss says about addiction & recovery

Everything Tim Ferriss and guests said about addiction & recovery across 39 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Huberman says he has doubled down on five foundational categories that must be re-upped every 24 hours: sleep, nutrients (macro and micro), movement, light (especially morning sunlight), and relationships.
00:05:08Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
He reversed his belief that you cannot train for endurance and strength at once; the data on concurrent training convinced him you can pursue multiple adaptations simultaneously, so he rebuilt his program to target one specific adaptation each day.
00:22:50Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
He details his full weekly split: Sunday endurance hike/jog, Monday legs, Tuesday sauna/cold plunge recovery, Wednesday cardio or torso, Thursday torso or cardio, Friday short VO2 max work, Saturday smaller muscle groups.
00:24:34Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Tibialis (tib) raises, learned from Ben Patrick (Knees Over Toes Guy), eliminated his right-side sciatica, fixed shin splints, and let him run pain-free; he also discovered he never actually had flat feet, just weak tibs.
00:33:01Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Dedicated neck training improved his posture, eye contact, confidence, and injury resilience; he does it lying on a bench and stomach with a towel-wrapped plate.
00:50:39Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
His sleep stack remains magnesium threonate, theanine, and apigenin, with added myo-inositol (900 mg) to help fall back asleep; if forced to pick two, he chooses magnesium threonate and apigenin.
01:15:41Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Rhodiola rosea (200 mg pre-workout) is his standout recent performance addition because it reduces perceived effort and post-exercise energy crash without suppressing cortisol, unlike Ashwagandha.
01:36:34Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Huberman has been monitoring sperm parameters and freezing sperm, and credits Ferriss with the idea that optimizing for fertility is a proxy for optimizing overall vitality.
01:44:32Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
The circuits devoted to movement plus those devoted to vision make up roughly 75 percent of the human brain.
00:21:12Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
After about 25-30 minutes of repetitive exercise, central pattern generators engage so the movement becomes near-automatic, like an autopilot button appearing on the steering wheel.
00:28:43Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Protein synthesis peaks around 48 hours after a resistance workout but is held for additional days, so a muscle group does not need to be hit every 48 hours.
00:59:29Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Charles Poliquin's caution: resistance training beyond 60 minutes raises cortisol, harming sleep and recovery, so Huberman keeps lifts to an hour or less.
01:02:43Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
A University of Houston study found 'soleus pushups' (seated calf raises) done while sitting significantly improved insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake.
01:10:48Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
The soleus is about 1 percent of body musculature but can account for over 15 percent of daytime energy expenditure.
01:11:54Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Gulping fluid signals the bladder to urgently urinate, so sip your last evening drink, but gulp large amounts of water first thing in the morning when the kidney functions differently.
01:18:23Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Morning light raises cortisol about 50 percent above baseline; late-shifted cortisol is associated with depression and immune disruption.
01:21:03Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
Neuropod cells in the gut signal sugar, fatty acids, and amino acids via the vagus nerve to the brain's dopamine centers, driving cravings and satiety.
01:29:06Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
An Israeli study found 20 minutes of afternoon sun on bare skin three times a week significantly increased free testosterone, estrogen, and libido; the skin acts as an endocrine organ via the P53 pathway.
01:53:41Dr. Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Mar 2023
At an ayahuasca retreat in Peru, shamans 'fired' Maté from his own retreat, saying his dark, dense energy was so heavy it interfered with their chants for everyone else.
00:11:53Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
The shamans intuited that Maté had experienced a 'big scare' when very small and assigned one healer to work with him alone over five private ceremonies.
00:12:25Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Maté recounts going into a rage over a minor text from his wife at the airport, tracing it directly to being given away by his mother as a one-year-old infant.
00:24:50Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Maté publicly acknowledges he was sexually abused as a child, explaining how suppressing the resulting rage became a survival mechanism.
00:30:30Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Maté argues no one has ever discovered a gene or group of genes that causes any mental health condition; what is inherited is sensitivity, not disease.
00:44:30Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Describing prison enneagram work with men who have killed, Maté says these 'killers' are among the loveliest people, deeply traumatized sensitive kids nobody ever paid attention to.
01:09:33Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
In a live exercise, Maté helps Tim surface his authentic calling, which Tim names as 'animal communication' and 'pure knowing.'
01:24:38Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Maté's works have been published internationally in nearly 30 languages.
00:01:32Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
The Myth of Normal took about 10 years of research and a year longer to write than Maté expected.
00:02:34Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
At the Peru retreat there were 24 participants, all health professionals (doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists).
00:11:22Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp identified mammalian brain systems including CARE, GRIEF/PANIC, FEAR, LUST, SEEKING, PLAY, and RAGE.
00:28:27Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Maté cites Buddhist teacher Tara Brach's RAIN method: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
00:33:38Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Loneliness has doubled in the last 30 years; Britain appointed a Minister of Loneliness, and loneliness is reportedly as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
00:55:33Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
In Canada, Indigenous people are 5% of the population but 30% of the jail population, and Indigenous women are 50% of the female jail population.
01:03:46Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Olympian Clara Hughes, the first to win medals at both Summer and Winter Olympics, walks roughly from northern Canada to Mexico for six months each year to reconnect with herself.
00:57:36Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
While writing the book, Maté experienced panic and saw a therapist weekly for several months mid-project.
01:20:31Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
A documentary about Maté's work, The Wisdom of Trauma, features Fritzi Horstman doing trauma work with high-level offenders in a prison yard.
00:58:07Dr. Gabor Maté · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2022
Koppelman admits he does NOT take feedback well in the instant it's given, sometimes spending up to 12 bad hours cycling through rage, sadness, and self-pity before he can reach intellectual clarity and act on the notes.
00:12:00Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
His key feedback rule: before giving notes he asks the person 'what kind of feedback are you looking for' and 'is this finished?' - peer-level feedback contains almost no praise, only where the work falls short.
00:14:33Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Two months before recording he was 249.4 pounds; sitting on the edge of his bed after finally stepping on the scale, he feared crossing 250 and hitting 300, which catalyzed an immediate change.
00:26:36Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
About a year and a half earlier he lost a lifelong friend, Dennis Shields, who never drank but became addicted to opioids after back surgery in his 40s and was dead by 50; Brian dedicated a Billions episode to him.
00:27:41Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
He made a deliberate decision to minimize the difference between his public and private selves, choosing to fail or succeed in public so he can connect more deeply and serve others going through the same struggles.
00:30:21Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
He cites Francis Ford Coppola making The Godfather as proof that masterpieces hide enormous doubt; Koppelman wants his own Twitter feed to show how hard it was to reach the point of making Billions.
00:45:06Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
The full origin story of writing a Shakespeare-style charity monologue for Vincent D'Onofrio in about a day for the New York food bank, written in Final Draft under the name 'a man' so Vincent could choose how personal to make it.
01:10:46Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
He reveals he first met Tim by writing a thoughtful letter (not a 'can I take you to coffee' note) after reading The 4-Hour Workweek, before either of them had a podcast, which seeded a years-long friendship.
00:56:33Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Koppelman and his wife Amy, also a writer and filmmaker, were two days away from their 29th wedding anniversary at the time of recording.
00:19:16Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
His food-addiction therapist's core insight is that sugar and flour are specific triggers for food addicts, so he eliminated both completely.
00:30:53Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
As an accountability practice he photographs and records every single thing he eats - even one bite of a slice of orange - and shares it with his therapist.
00:32:25Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
After his root canal he was prescribed Tylenol 3 (Tylenol with codeine); he took one pill and threw out the remaining 12 because of his fear of opioids.
00:35:33Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
He named the first coffee of his day 'the Royale,' and his Twitter community spontaneously turned it into a shared ritual and then designed a mug (theRoyaleBK.com), with proceeds going to the NYC food bank.
00:48:12Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
After meeting Jocko Willink on the Billions set, Koppelman says he has exercised four to five days a week and never stopped since that day.
00:59:42Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Steven Soderbergh's book on the making of Sex, Lies, and Videotape walks through every day of production, post, Sundance, and selling the film, and includes the full script.
01:05:33Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Koppelman re-reads Sidney Lumet's 'Making Movies' about once a year and calls Haruki Murakami his favorite living fiction writer, repeatedly recommending Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.'
01:06:36Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Tim shares that his own childhood best friend died after a friend gave him fentanyl for a headache, and that an aunt died of percocet and alcohol about a year and a half earlier.
00:34:00Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
Vincent D'Onofrio, the monologue's performer, is widely recognized as Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket and appears in Godfather of Harlem.
01:19:41Brian Koppelman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2020
A newly discovered set of 1987 lecture recordings by Sasha Shulgin is being published as a three-volume set called 'The Nature of Drugs' through Transform Press.
00:07:46Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Ibogaine's anti-addictive effect was not an African tradition but was discovered in the 1960s by a New York heroin addict named Howard Lotsof, who realized he had no withdrawals or desire for heroin after taking it.
00:38:35Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
The Bwiti iboga ceremony includes a spiritual army wearing military outfits with iboga guns and knives to guard participants from bad spirits, and a ritual of burying people alive overnight to contemplate mortality.
00:43:48Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
5-MeO-DMT can be synthesized from melatonin, with 100 grams of melatonin yielding roughly 100 grams of 5-MeO-DMT, equivalent to milking thousands of toads.
00:52:46Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
There is essentially no evidence of historical indigenous use of the Sonoran Desert toad; the first human to smoke its venom was independent researcher Ken Nelson in the 1980s.
01:06:50Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
At a xenon clinic, a 'breatharian' patient who had not fasted vomited while unconscious under a quadruple-strapped mask, and the clinic proprietor (who later died) was found using xenon himself instead of supervising a sedated producer.
01:24:27Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Morris says the iboga ceremony was the moment he realized ritual could be as powerful as the substance itself and could dramatically magnify therapeutic effects.
01:28:38Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
The federal Analog Act allows prosecutors to charge a substance that is an arbitrarily-defined analog of a Schedule I drug as if it were that drug.
00:09:50Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Shulgin was responsible for the discovery of an estimated 200 novel psychedelic compounds and authored PIHKAL and TIHKAL.
00:13:59Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Shulgin observed that every drug has 'no side effects for the first five years,' before its limitations become apparent.
00:29:01Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Ibogaine binds to hERG potassium channels that regulate heart rhythm and has a mild topical anesthetic effect, so high doses can cause fatal arrhythmias.
00:44:52Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
An iboga tree must be about five years old before its roots can be harvested, and harvesters in Gabon typically kill the entire tree.
00:48:32Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
5-MeO-DMT is more pharmacologically distant from DMT than psilocybin is; it dissociates users entirely, resembles a near-death experience, and can cause violent physical reactions.
01:11:00Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Xenon makes up only about 0.0000087 percent of Earth's atmosphere, requiring distillation of millions of liters of air, so a single breath costs roughly sixty dollars.
01:13:36Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Anesthesiologists consider xenon nearly the perfect anesthetic: not metabolized, recyclable indefinitely, extremely potent, fast onset and recovery, and no known toxicity.
01:14:37Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Xenon was reportedly used for endurance enhancement by athletes around the Sochi Olympics, and a company called Nobilis is developing a xenon inhaler for PTSD.
01:16:10Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Florida Water and Agua de Cananga, cologne-like ingredients used in remote Amazonian ayahuasca ceremonies, were originally manufactured in the United States, showing such traditions have long incorporated outside elements.
01:37:26Hamilton Morris · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2021
Williams describes treating Deirdre Lehman, one of the most severe patients they had ever seen (catatonic, suicidal bipolar depression), and having her go from that state to completely normal in roughly 24 hours with accelerated TMS.
00:04:29Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
A paper in PNAS identified a depression biomarker: in healthy people the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex fires slightly before the cingulate, but in about 70 percent of depressed patients this signal is flipped, and only patients with the flipped biomarker responded to SAINT.
00:08:15Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
SAINT compresses a full six-week (about 30-session) FDA-cleared TMS course into a single day by giving 10 triple-dose sessions of 1,800 pulses, delivering roughly seven and a half months of TMS in five days, with average remission at 2.6 days.
00:29:33Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
In treatment-resistant patients where conventional TMS yields about 16 percent remission, SAINT achieved 90 percent remission in the open-label pilot and 79 percent transiting through remission in the randomized controlled trial (13 percent for sham).
00:52:30Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Williams' Stanford ibogaine trial in 30 veterans with traumatic brain injury produced results so striking he ordered the postdocs to delete the code and redo the analysis, suspecting an error; the second run reproduced the same dramatic improvements, now holding out to a year.
01:06:38Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
To address ibogaine's roughly one-in-300 risk of fatal Torsade de pointes arrhythmia, every patient received IV magnesium upfront; about a thousand operators have gone to Mexico with this protocol and no torsades cases, versus a death in a 10-person New Zealand study.
01:28:52Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
An anecdotal deep-brain-stimulation case: a man treated for OCD became obsessed with Johnny Cash and sold all his other albums, reverted to old tastes when his battery died, and regained the obsession after a battery replacement, illustrating how little is understood about content-level brain effects.
02:13:06Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Williams frames psychiatry in three eras: 1.0 (Freud/content), 2.0 (the serendipitous chemical era beginning with Thorazine), and 3.0 (the current circuit/neuromodulation era).
00:16:11Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) was originally developed by Tony Barker in the UK as a motor probe based on Faraday's law, inducing current in electrically conducting brain tissue while bypassing skin, scalp, and skull.
00:22:10Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
SAINT uses 90 percent of resting motor threshold, depth-corrected for prefrontal atrophy in older patients; there has never been a TMS-related seizure at sub-motor-threshold intensity, so risk tracks intensity rather than pulse count.
00:34:07Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
TMS produces an anti-pain (antinociceptive) effect by releasing endogenous opioids, which can be blocked with opioid-blocking drugs as shown in studies by Joe Taylor.
00:37:21Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
RCT patients averaged about nine years in their current depressive episode, five (plus or minus two) medication failures, and a lifetime depression load of roughly 25 years.
00:39:33Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
On average it takes about seven years to diagnose bipolar disorder from a patient's first depressive episode.
00:49:50Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Comparative remission benchmarks cited: electroconvulsive therapy about 48 percent, a single ketamine infusion about 30 percent, with later-stage pharmaceutical interventions under 10 percent.
00:53:36Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Williams first learned about ibogaine after randomly picking up Daniel Pinchbeck's 'Breaking Open the Head' while stranded in the San Salvador airport on the way to kite surf in Peru.
01:04:29Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Ibogaine is described as a 'neurogen' acting across many receptor systems (kappa, mu, NMDA, SERT, some 5-HT2A) and upregulating BDNF and GDNF, unlike classic psychedelics that work mainly through 5-HT2A.
01:20:45Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Williams and Raag Airan are packaging ketamine into nanoparticles delivered by IV and opened with focused ultrasound to drop the drug only into the cingulate, aiming to test 'tripless' therapeutic effects by targeting specific brain regions.
02:16:51Dr. Nolan Williams · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2024
Karr reveals she tried to kill herself in grade school by taking aspirin, which led her into therapy unusually early in life.
00:08:46Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
She got sober in 1989 after years of being unable to stop drinking despite trying every method, marking the turning point of her life.
00:39:29Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Her prayer practice began not from belief but from a sponsor telling her to get on her knees 'for yourself,' which produced unexpected moments of quiet 'south of the neck.'
00:44:06Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
After praying for money on her knees, she received an unsolicited $35,000 grant three weeks later, a story she swears is true.
00:51:54Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Writing The Liars' Club was so taxing that she would suddenly fall asleep mid-afternoon and sob; she warns aspiring memoirists to treat their trauma before writing about it.
01:18:50Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
She admits she would have kept drinking if her son had been an easy baby, but his chronic illnesses forced her to get sober.
01:38:35Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Her estranged sister died suddenly of pancreatic cancer that summer, and she found unexpected spiritual gifts in reconnecting with her sister's family.
01:39:36Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Karr reveals that about 30 percent of her closest male friends reached out after Tim's podcast to describe their own previously hidden experiences with sexual abuse.
01:43:17Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Karr's mother was married seven times, twice to Mary's father, and had shot at multiple men, leaving bullet holes in the kitchen tile.
00:05:43Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
As a child too short to reach the table, Karr used a water-stained Riverside Shakespeare as a booster seat and memorized speeches from Hamlet and Macbeth.
00:13:24Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
A high-school assistant principal badmouthed her to Macalester College admissions for being a 'bad citizen,' which she believes actually helped her get in.
00:19:08Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Of the six people Karr lived with after leaving home, four went to jail and two were dead before age 20; only she and one friend got sober and 'made it.'
00:21:47Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Her hyper-selective Syracuse graduate program receives around 1,200 applications for just 12 positions.
00:27:33Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Karr opens class by staging a scripted fake fight with colleague George Saunders to demonstrate that memory is a filter, not a perfect recording.
00:29:37Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
She has kept a commonplace book of beautiful language since 1978, on the advice of poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, and has 40 years of index cards with quotes.
00:38:27Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
She threw out roughly 1,200 finished pages of Lit and was about seven years late on her book contract before completing it.
01:11:00Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
At 65, Karr walks four miles each morning, does Pilates three or four times a week, and takes dance classes, saying she has never been happier in her life.
01:22:35Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Asked what she'd put on a billboard, Karr chose: '90 percent of what's wrong with you could be cured with a hot bath.'
01:45:21Mary Karr · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Lahey describes getting blackout drunk at her mother's June 2013 birthday party, after which her father told her 'I know what an alcoholic looks like and you're an alcoholic and you need help,' marking the start of her sobriety on June 7, 2013.
00:18:38Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She explains that doing too much for children undermines their self-efficacy and long-term motivation, and that extrinsic motivators like paying for grades destroy intrinsic drive to learn.
00:33:14Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey introduces 'desirable difficulties' (from the book Make It Stick) and Wendy Grolnick's research showing kids with highly directive parents are less able to push through frustration and complete hard tasks.
00:34:45Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She distinguishes hollow confidence from competence, arguing self-esteem rises from real competence built through experience, not from praising kids for innate qualities, which actually lowers self-esteem in low-self-esteem kids.
00:38:24Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Citing Shane Lopez, she defines hope as believing your life can be better and that you have the power to make it so, and calls it a key solution to intergenerational poverty.
00:47:10Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey argues addiction prevention works best by giving kids honest data about prevalence and brain effects tied to their own goals, rather than 'just say no' messaging that kids recognize as lies.
01:04:41Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She explains inoculation theory: giving kids rehearsed refusal scripts makes them more likely to resist, and the effect generalizes across drugs, sex, and drunk driving.
01:05:13Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She recounts her editor calling her first book 'unpublishable' and proposing a ghostwriter; she negotiated for two probationary chapters, turned her feedback into a 'what not to do' checklist, and it became a bestseller.
01:12:28Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey works as a recovery coach at Sana in Stowe, Vermont, where 100% of her salary goes to a scholarship fund for young adults.
00:04:10Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She cites Marc Schuckit of USC that roughly 50-60% of addiction risk is genetic, with epigenetics and environment (including trauma) making up the rest.
00:21:44Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey realized her own over-parenting when she discovered her nine-year-old couldn't tie his shoes because she had always done it for him.
00:43:31Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She debunks the myth that Europeans raise moderate drinkers, noting the EU has the highest rate of alcohol consumption in the world and that moderation can't be taught.
00:53:53Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Alcohol withdrawal can be fatal, which is why medically-assisted detox with a physician is critical; the head of addiction medicine at University of Vermont is Sana's chief medical officer.
00:59:30Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey notes the hippocampus is smaller in regular teen pot users, and that memory damage to the developing brain is more likely to be permanent than in adults.
01:03:37Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
She praises Dax Shepard's 'Day 7' episode where he admitted relapsing after 17 years, calling it his most important contribution to recovery advocacy.
01:09:18Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
After turning in her first book, Lahey was thrown from a horse, landing on her head and temporarily losing her memory and ability to read due to post-concussion syndrome.
01:11:25Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Her best investment has been learning about her kids' passions (crystals, FL Studio music production, economics), even flying to D.C. to see musician Adam Neely's band Sungazer.
01:29:43Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Lahey reveals that billboards are illegal in Vermont and that signage is tightly regulated to not be ugly.
01:34:25Jessica Lahey · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2021
Dax describes putting his mother on the podcast and learning, for the first time on-mic, that she stayed in a physically abusive marriage because the shame of having failed twice felt worse than being beaten up.
00:06:55Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
He recounts his rock-bottom moment before filming Zathura: going to Hawaii to avoid cocaine, finding crystal meth instead, then sitting suicidal in a San Francisco airport bar despite being about to make the most money of his life.
00:14:45Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax explains his fear and reasoning around publicly disclosing his relapse, including how a friend told him that relapsing made him far more helpful to listeners than 16 years of sobriety married to Kristen Bell.
00:19:27Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
He maps out the baby-step path of the relapse, starting with taking Percocet alongside his dying father, and the proactive measures he's now taking, including identifying the resentments he was trying to escape.
00:25:37Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax attributes Armchair Expert's success to launching big with famous friends and Kristen Bell, then realizing through live shows that listeners crave real, unrehearsed vulnerability.
00:40:01Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
He reveals he will never invite Howard Stern on the show, not over a favor but because he knows Stern doesn't want to do it, though he left the door open via Baba Booey for book sales.
01:10:34Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax names the flop of his film Chips as his favorite failure, saying the collapse of his writer-director identity is what led him to start the podcast and gave him a better life than he'd imagined.
01:30:51Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Asked for a billboard message, Dax offers 'Be as kind and forgiving to yourself as you are to the people you love,' admitting he is brutally self-critical.
01:36:38Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Tim Ferriss started his podcast in 2014 and initially studied Inside the Actor's Studio and Terry Gross while developing his interviewing approach.
00:02:49Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax credits his AA program of 17 years and watching people own their flaws as the inspiration and premise behind Armchair Expert.
00:11:36Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Monica Padman started as the family's babysitter, became Kristen Bell's writer and chief of staff, then was 'poached' by Dax to co-host and fact-check the podcast.
00:31:45Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
The show runs a Monday-celebrity, Thursday-expert format, and Dax notes experts are easier to book than celebrities because they usually have a book to promote.
00:38:29Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax cites that roughly 25% of people experienced childhood sexual trauma and 40% experienced physical abuse, arguing these struggles are far more common than people feel.
00:45:38Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
He references a Malcolm Gladwell chapter (David and Goliath) noting dyslexics are both more likely to end up in prison and more likely to become CEOs.
00:46:40Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax says his dyslexia forced him to develop a strong oral memory, letting him interview without relying heavily on notes.
00:47:12Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Both Dax and Tim give their podcast guests final cut, letting them remove anything they regret saying, which Dax believes makes guests more willing to be vulnerable.
00:47:42Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020
Dax praises Howard Stern for evolving publicly, supporting gay rights and Hillary Clinton despite a largely male fan base, and for getting people to like guests they expected to dislike.
01:07:30Dax Shepard · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2020

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