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What Tim Ferriss says about depression & mood

Everything Tim Ferriss and guests said about depression & mood across 46 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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The MAPS 'Capstone' campaign raised $30 million to complete Phase 3 trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, with more than 2,500 donors giving from $1 up to $5 million.
00:08:19Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
In MDMA Phase 2 trials, patients with treatment-resistant PTSD for an average of 17 years saw about 53% no longer meeting diagnostic criteria after just three doses plus 12 weeks of psychotherapy.
00:13:29Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
At five years out with no further treatment, 67% of MDMA patients no longer met PTSD diagnostic criteria, while placebo-group responders often relapsed.
00:13:59Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Ferriss says that after a few follow-up questions, 90%+ of the time his answer to 'should I do a psychedelic?' is no, because preparation and post-care are essential.
00:25:54Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Ferriss describes his funding strategy: provide seed capital to de-risk and destigmatize, paving the way for foundations and federal funding, which he hopes arrives within three to five years.
00:36:19Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Ferriss argues you don't need to treat 100 million people to change the world; helping one person overcome paralyzing trauma can have an enormous ripple effect.
00:45:10Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
On patents, Ferriss warns the most critical ethical risk is broad patent land-grabs that could lock up the field, and urges watchdog opposition at the patent office.
01:15:36Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Rick Doblin/MAPS took roughly 30 years to raise their first $30 million, an amount the Capstone campaign matched in just a few years.
00:08:51Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) sends far more people to emergency rooms and carries higher toxicity than psilocybin or MDMA.
00:11:56Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Blinding psychedelic studies is hard because participants can quickly tell they received an active drug; researchers use 'active placebos' like niacin to mimic physiological effects.
00:19:38Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Belief is powerful: placebo can make treatment work 30-50% more often, while nocebo (believing it won't work) can make it 30-50% less likely to succeed.
00:21:12Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
MDMA must hit a threshold dose (roughly 80-120 mg) to be effective, making it a poor candidate for microdosing; sub-threshold doses were used as the placebo.
00:23:19Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
About 25-27% of the sub-therapeutic placebo group also lost their PTSD diagnosis at two months, showing the 12-week therapy alone is potent.
00:23:50Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Ferriss notes we operated on newborns and infants without anesthesia until 1987, illustrating how much of accepted medicine later proves wrong.
00:31:37Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Ferriss observes the psychedelic world's biggest weakness is lack of focus: 'if everything is your priority, nothing is your priority.'
00:48:48Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
Licensed professionals can lose their license for a mental-illness diagnosis on record, creating a paradox of untreated burnout among front-line caregivers.
00:58:05Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
There is no indigenous culture that progresses sequentially through psychedelics; these are not 'psychedelic cultures' but cultures that use plants for specific purposes like warfare and hunting.
01:05:48Tim Ferriss (with hosts Dr. David Rabin and Dr. Molly Maloof) · The Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 2020
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
Huberman recommends everyone view sunlight for two to ten minutes every morning upon waking to trigger a healthy cortisol pulse and set timers for both wakefulness and later melatonin/sleepiness.
00:16:35Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
His preferred sleep cocktail is 50mg apigenin, 300-400mg magnesium threonate or bisglycinate, and 200-400mg theanine taken about 30 minutes before bed, paired with morning light.
00:36:20Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
He avoids melatonin because it suppresses the reproductive/sex-steroid axis and most supplements contain 10 to 1,000 times natural physiological levels.
00:32:08Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
The physiological sigh - a double inhale followed by an extended exhale - offloads carbon dioxide and brings stress levels down very fast in real time, often after just one to three repetitions.
00:48:53Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
A 20-minute non-sleep deep rest (NSDR) protocol after intense learning accelerates neuroplasticity by about 50 percent, per two recent Cell Reports papers.
00:46:20Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Huberman recounts a July 4, 1994 street fight at age 19 that became the turning point flipping him from a struggling, depressed dropout-track student toward neuroscience and academia.
01:08:26Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
He reveals he has done therapy with the same individual for 32 years, currently three sessions a week of psychoanalysis.
01:24:53Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
For testosterone, he uses 400mg/day Tongkat Ali and roughly 425mg Fadogia agrestis, which together raised his total testosterone by about 200 points without down-regulating LH.
02:00:35Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
The eyes are literally two pieces of brain squeezed out during early development - the only parts of the central nervous system outside the cranial vault.
00:06:41Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Ideal morning light exposure is about 14 to 16 hours before you want to sleep, and your 'temperature minimum' (about two hours before natural waking) is the anchor point for shifting the circadian clock and beating jet lag.
00:24:20Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Belladonna ('beautiful woman' in Italian) was historically made into a tincture women put in their eyes to hyper-dilate their pupils because it was considered attractive.
00:14:31Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Inhales speed the heart up and exhales slow it down (respiratory sinus arrhythmia), which is the basis of heart rate variability - so emphasizing longer exhales calms the system.
00:50:55Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
The Spiegel eye-roll test predicts hypnotizability; Tim scored about a 4, very hypnotizable, with eyes rolling back as the lids slowly closed.
00:53:29Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Clinical hypnosis shows roughly 60-80% success for smoking cessation, up to 90% improvement for anxiety, and 50-75% reduction in chronic pain in controlled studies.
00:57:05Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Turmeric is a fairly potent DHT antagonist; people sensitive to creatine-induced hair loss tend to see their DHT plummet on turmeric.
01:50:41Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
In a Dominican Republic genetic condition (guevedoces), children appear female at birth then sprout a penis and descend testicles around age 12 due to a DHT surge, revealing 5-alpha reductase's role.
01:55:53Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Most people benefit from delaying caffeine 90 minutes to two hours after waking so cortisol can clear residual adenosine and avoid an energy crash.
02:16:44Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2021
Gut neurons sensing fat, amino acids, and sugar signal via the vagus nerve and nodose ganglia to trigger dopamine release, making us seek those foods even when the mouth is numbed and regardless of taste.
02:26:34Andrew Huberman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 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
Kornfield cites Solzhenitsyn from the gulags: the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being, so we cannot simply round up the evil people.
00:09:59Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Kornfield reveals his father was 'an angry, paranoid wife batterer, somewhat mentally ill,' yet also a brilliant scientist who helped develop some of the first artificial hearts and lungs.
00:10:30Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
In the monastery his anger boiled up unexpectedly, and Ajahn Chah told him to sit in his hut in full robes during hot season and 'feel the fire of it' to expand his window of tolerance.
00:11:30Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
The key reframe on anger: underneath it is hurt, fear, or humiliation, so dropping to 'I really feel hurt when you say that' turns 'I'm right and you're wrong' into a genuine conversation.
00:18:24Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
For hypervigilance, Kornfield teaches a compassion practice of thanking the frightened, protective part of yourself ('Thank you for trying to protect me') while affirming present safety.
00:31:31Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Kornfield describes sitting with his dying, terrified scientist father and challenging him to treat death as an experiment, sharing his own out-of-body and past-life experiences.
01:08:18Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Out-of-body experiences are 'more common than you think,' often occurring during accidents or distress, with thousands of detailed accounts of people accurately reporting things they could not have seen.
01:13:49Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Kornfield leads Ferriss through a live guided meditation; Ferriss receives an imagined silver pendant with a bluish-green stone symbolizing 'unending connection' and the words 'Take it easy.'
01:29:33Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
The ancient Greeks called anger a 'noble emotion' because there is something of value in it.
00:08:16Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Benjamin Franklin's line: 'What begins in anger ends in suffering.'
00:21:32Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
A Wall Street Journal front page from about a dozen years ago reported 45 million American children on antidepressants, ADHD, antipsychotic, or similar medications.
00:40:28Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Anthropologist Wade Davis's line, quoted by Kornfield: 'Despair is a failure of the imagination.'
00:46:27Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Joanna Macy and John Seed created the 'Council for All Beings,' a despair-and-empowerment practice where participants speak for parts of the natural world like salmon or monarch butterflies.
00:54:34Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Kornfield did the math himself: using Avogadro's number, there is roughly a 99 percent chance your next breath contains a molecule from Julius Caesar's dying breath.
01:06:38Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Thich Nhat Hanh's image of the Vietnamese refugee boats: if even one person stays calm and steady, it shows the way for everyone to survive.
01:01:11Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
The Dalai Lama on the Chinese taking Tibet: 'They've taken so much from me. Why should I let them take my happiness?'
01:24:22Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Ram Dass, after 20 years half-paralyzed in a wheelchair, said he came to love everything, including the wheelchair that carried him.
01:18:50Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Kornfield reads the thousand-year-old advice of Tibetan master Atisha, ending with 'rely on a joyful mind' and 'don't expect a standing ovation.'
01:46:22Jack Kornfield · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2022
Matt shares that not meeting your mentors is fine - you can grow up with a book, speech, or essay; he credits Tyler Cowen's blog and a single piece of advice ('write every day') for setting his trajectory.
00:30:01Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt reveals he changed his mind on having kids - after deciding ~6-7 years ago not to, he's now rethinking it at 40, influenced by AI optimism and the book Empty Planet (humanity won't have enough people, not too many).
01:04:21Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt announces he is taking his first-ever sabbatical (Feb-Apr 2024) after 18 years - Automattic gives every employee 2-3 months paid off every 5 years, and he's the 'biggest hypocrite' for never taking one.
01:30:11Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt names irrelevance and not being needed as a core fear, and asks Jerry Colonna's question: 'How am I complicit in creating the conditions I say I don't want?'
01:38:25Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Lightning round of changed minds: nuclear (now pro, build as many plants as possible), psychedelics (modified from full legalization to caution), and later TikTok and breathwork.
01:44:55Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Tim opens up about lifelong depression and nearly killing himself in college, and lays out concrete tools: the 'STATE -> story -> strategy' order, ketamine and accelerated TMS for acute cases, and Byron Katie's The Work.
02:01:57Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
The two diverge on meditation - Tim finds 20 min twice daily helpful, but Matt warns meditation can be dangerous at high doses (hundreds of hours), citing oversensitivity and the Jhana scene in San Francisco.
02:26:25Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt describes a GMO mouth bacteria (Lantern Bioworks) that replaces the lactic-acid-producing bacteria to eliminate cavities, now being administered in a crypto-libertarian city in Central America.
02:30:16Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
WordPress, co-founded when Matt was 19, now runs over a third of all websites in the world; Automattic has over 1,900 people in 97 countries and has been fully remote since 2005.
00:01:03Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Every new Automattic hire starts with two weeks of customer support, and every employee rotates back into support one week per year - including Matt himself.
00:07:34Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Apple shut down the multi-messaging app Beeper (which had supported iMessage) the week before recording, forcing Beeper to refund its paying users.
00:15:50Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt frames publishing, commerce, and messaging as the three Automattic pillars, arguing that truly free versions of all three would constitute a free society.
00:25:42Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt's high-school economics team did mock Federal Reserve FOMC meetings, role-playing figures like Greenspan and Bernanke; he later met Alan Greenspan and Tyler Cowen.
00:48:29Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Automattic's 2024 initiative is the 'Data Liberation Front' - open-source two-way import/export tooling to break proprietary lock-in (some CMS like Wix don't even allow export).
01:09:48Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
X/Twitter under Elon Musk was caught inserting a 5-10 second delay on links to certain media sites via its t.co redirect; Google was caught using AMP to disadvantage rival ad networks.
01:17:32Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
On security, Matt recommends keeping apps/OS updated, using a password manager like 1Password, and switching to passkeys (which replace passwords with a secure key exchange).
01:21:56Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Will Durant's posthumous book Fallen Leaves: 'Happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them.'
01:39:32Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Matt's mom's depression checklist - 'Did you sleep? Are you drinking water? Have you been in nature?' - plus 'Am I hangry?'; echoes Kevin Kelly's advice that if you don't know what you need, it's probably sleep.
02:12:28Matt Mullenweg · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2023
Real explains why RLT therapists deliberately take sides rather than play the neutral mirror, calling the standard 'all problems are 50/50' doctrine nonsense: some problems are 99-to-1.
00:11:35Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
His core 'bitter pill': objectivity has no place in personal relations; the relational answer to who's right and who's wrong is 'who gives a damn,' and proving you're right never works.
00:15:16Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
The repair skill of entering 'compassionate curiosity about your partner's subjective experience,' and the advanced move of 'outing yourself' (admitting fault) to defuse conflict.
00:20:01Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
He introduces 'normal marital hatred' (borrowed from researcher Ed Tronick): the essential rhythm of all relationships is harmony, disharmony, and repair.
00:23:39Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Male depression often shows up as 'covert depression'—self-medication, rage, philandering, and withdrawal that defend against an underlying depression; the cure for covert depression is overt depression.
00:42:26Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real distinguishes 'political patriarchy' (oppression of women) from 'psychological patriarchy' (traditional masculinity), arguing the latter damages everyone by forcing boys to cut off half their humanity around age 3-5.
00:48:13Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
His field spent 50 years bringing people up from the 'one-down' (shame) but ignored bringing grandiose people down from the 'one-up' (entitlement, contempt); RLT treats grandiose men 'breakfast, lunch, and dinner.'
01:29:25Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
The distinction between gratification (short-term pleasure) and 'relational joy' (the deeper pleasure of being connected), which grandiose, successful clients often have no idea exists.
01:32:31Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
RLT divides the psyche into three parts: the wise adult (prefrontal cortex, evolves last around age 26), the adaptive child (automatic fight/flight/fawn/flee), and the wounded child (the flooded amygdala part from early life).
00:04:11Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real's 'relational reckoning' test for staying or leaving: 'Am I getting enough in this relationship to make grieving what I'm not getting worth my while?'
00:33:33Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real cites his mentor Pia Mellody, who ran The Meadows: treatment order is addiction first, then personality issues, then underlying childhood trauma.
00:46:39Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Tim Ferriss reveals he shut down his sensitivity after childhood abuse (not from family), then around 2013 chose to reopen it after a relationship ended—a 12-year project.
01:01:20Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real has two sons—Justin, a 'massive jock,' and Alexander, a gay professional ballet dancer—and frames his goal as raising 'whole people' rather than feminizing men.
01:07:33Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real ran a men's group with Maasai warrior elders in Tanzania; an elder said a great Morani knows which moment calls for fierceness and which for tenderness.
01:08:03Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real's most famous quote: 'Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods... until one person in one generation has the courage to turn and face the flames.'
01:10:44Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real claims not being intimate is as bad for your body as smoking a pack and a half of cigarettes a day.
01:23:12Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real recorded the audiobook of 'Fierce Intimacy' in one booth session over three days with no notes, which is why a Kindle/text edition doesn't exist.
01:37:47Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Real's most-gifted book is Jim Gilligan's 'Violence'; Gilligan was medical director of Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and both agree violence is a shunt from shame (one-down) to grandiosity (one-up).
01:38:18Terry Real · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2025
Soman spent a year and a half mapping out a 'Game of Thrones version of Neverland' fairy-tale fantasy, wrote two chapters, then abandoned it overnight because it felt like chasing the easy money instead of the right idea.
00:06:49Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
DC Comics hired Soman to write a 20-page short story; after six months it fizzled before printing, which he saw as the universe confirming that mercenary jobs done 'not 100 percent like me' always fall apart—at least ten times in his 20s and 30s.
00:19:43Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman reveals he never did drugs growing up, then during COVID after reading The Body Keeps the Score he Googled 'ketamine treatment New York City' and started clinical IV ketamine therapy that he says changed his life and let him avoid antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds.
00:58:34Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
The intake doctor's three candidate questions—emotional numbness, a volatile childhood where emotions weren't welcome, and 'Do you know how to have fun?'—made Soman cry in the office because no one had asked it the right way.
01:00:46Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman shares his 'double' idea: flipping shadow-self psychology so that you assume you are the shadow and a better, fully capable version of yourself is waiting to take over your life.
01:08:20Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
His first experience of the 'double' came backstage at The Kelly Clarkson Show post-lockdown, where rising panic was overtaken by a calm presence saying 'We've got this,' and he ended up chill enough to crack a sex joke with David Duchovny.
01:11:04Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
On cross-collar dating: after 22 years dating lawyers, bankers, and accountants in New York ('two clouds in the sky'), Soman moved to a St. Louis goat-and-cattle farm for his partner, framing it through Hinduism as sky energy (Shakti) pairing with Earth energy.
01:31:45Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Tim recounts nearly dying of anaphylaxis from eggplant in a San Francisco restaurant, then 'like an engineer' going back the next day to replicate it—when his throat closed to the size of a coffee straw with no ambulance, EpiPen, or Benadryl available.
01:47:31Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
When School for Good and Evil launched, there were eight other magic-school books that year (including ones tied to Glee's Chris Colfer and Mattel's Ever After High), but Soman wasn't worried because his was 'so weird' and uniquely his.
00:14:51Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman's 'Your bull might be gay' story: his partner's farm runs ~100 cattle with one bull impregnating 60 heifers a year; a sweet new bull seemed to ignore the females but had secretly gotten them all pregnant—becoming a motto for catastrophizing.
00:22:20Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Christopher Marley (@christophermarleystudio) is an ex-supermodel turned artist who makes art from reclaimed preserved animals—beetles, butterflies, snakes—sourced from remote Amazon tribes; none are killed for the art.
00:34:25Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Mike Regula (R-E-G-U-L-A), an ex-Navy SEAL, moved to Austin to start Course of Action (OneCOA), using SEAL concepts to help men reconnect with what they want, individually and in groups.
00:48:41Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman three times hosted YALLFest's 'SmackDown' show in Charleston—a variety act opening with an eight-song, six-costume-change dance number—doing it every two years so the off-year host's disaster makes him the returning hero.
00:51:22Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman's ketamine boosters run every ~10 weeks, alone, in total silence with no music, visuals, or post-session therapist; the active session lasts exactly one hour.
01:05:09Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman calls the Netflix series Quarterback (following Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota in 2022) his greatest source of spiritual revelation, treating the QB receiving plays through his helmet as the perfect metaphor for following the flow.
01:14:19Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman's three go-to book recommendations: The Secret History by Donna Tartt (immersive world), A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara ('emotional hijack'), and Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (like a Taylor Swift album in prose).
01:25:43Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024
Soman notes both he and Taylor Swift moved to Missouri for '6'5" aggressively masculine, athletic men,' citing Swift/Travis Kelce as the model cross-collar couple where each cheerleads the other.
01:36:06Soman Chainani · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2024

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