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Tim Ferriss · 36 episodes · 636 sourced insights

What Tim Ferriss says about trauma & ptsd

Everything Tim Ferriss and guests said about trauma & ptsd across 36 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
Tim discusses for the first time the consequences of his September episode disclosing childhood sexual abuse suffered from ages two to four at a babysitter's house.
00:09:14Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Seven or eight of Tim's roughly twenty close male friends reached out after the episode to confess they had been sexually abused and never told anyone.
00:13:24Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz describes the turning-point moment with a self-harming client when he said 'I give up' and the cutting 'part' replied it didn't want to beat him, shifting him from coercion to curiosity.
00:19:08Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz lays out the core IFS framework of exiles, manager protectors, and firefighters, with suicide often sitting at the top of the firefighter hierarchy.
00:35:18Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz begins a real, unscripted live IFS session with Tim, working with anxiety Tim locates in his throat and chest.
00:43:05Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
In the live demo Tim transports back in time to be with his abused child self, unburdens the boy by putting feelings into fire, and brings in confidence.
00:56:18Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz explains his approach to suicidal clients: seeing suicide as just one part trying to stop pain, and offering to stop the mental 'loop' another way.
01:12:31Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz explains the 'protector war' dynamic in couples, where each partner's protective parts trigger the other's wounded exiles.
01:28:35Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Tim compares IFS for emotions to David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' system for work tasks.
00:04:39Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
The Internal Family Systems model was born in the early 1980s and is now evidence-based, used for individuals, couples, families, corporations, and classrooms.
00:07:12Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Frank Anderson worked at Bessel van der Kolk's trauma center; van der Kolk authored 'The Body Keeps the Score.'
00:25:25Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz named the core 'Self' (capital S), describing eight C-word qualities: calm, curiosity, confidence, compassion, courage, clarity, creativity, and connectedness.
00:36:21Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
In Michael Mithoefer's MDMA phase-one trials with PTSD patients, over 70 percent spontaneously began doing IFS-style work without any coaching.
00:38:56Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Tim reveals he was severely bullied as a very small kid until about sixth grade, on top of the earlier sexual abuse.
00:51:29Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
After the live session, Tim reports the constriction in his throat dropped from a volume of eight to two or less.
01:05:17Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz uses the term 'trailheads' for symptoms that, when followed, lead to the part needing healing, and cites Gabor Mate's 'why the pain, not why the addiction.'
01:35:50Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz cites an Indian saying: 'When the water buffalo battle in the marsh, it is the frogs who suffer,' describing collateral damage in couples conflict.
01:30:06Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
Schwartz's resources include the IFS Institute website, his books 'Introduction to IFS' and 'You Are the One You've Been Waiting For,' and his Sounds True audio course 'Greater Than the Sum of the Parts.'
01:36:52Richard Schwartz · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2021
She reported a story for New York Times Magazine on a prison hospice in a maximum-security prison, staffed by fellow prisoners caring for the dying; one man she profiled, Fernando Murillo, was later released partly because of that story.
00:07:13Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
About a year after graduating college she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia, fracturing her life into a before and an after.
00:37:23Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
After standard chemotherapy failed, her only options became experimental clinical trials, which she found more devastating than the diagnosis itself.
00:40:30Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
A doctor she was interviewing for a story told her she had post-traumatic stress disorder, a revelation since she'd thought PTSD was only for war veterans.
00:57:34Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
To heal, she first confronted a smaller fear by learning to drive, which grew into the dream of a solo cross-country road trip.
01:00:13Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
She built her road-trip itinerary from a wooden box of letters sent by about 22 strangers who had responded to her column.
01:00:43Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
When a New York Times editor offered her an essay, she declined and instead pitched a weekly column with a video component, written from the trenches of treatment without knowing how her story would end.
01:08:01Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
She calls the 100-day, ~15,000-mile road trip the best decision she's ever made in her life.
01:28:28Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
Her defining childhood experience was being a misfit in every culture; between ages 2 and 12 she lived in Switzerland, Tunisia, and the US and attended five or six schools.
00:13:30Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
In Morocco she asked for bread using the Tunisian word 'taboona,' which turned out to be a derogatory term for part of the female anatomy.
00:25:28Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
At age eight she deliberately chose the upright bass as a secondary instrument because it would inconvenience her parents the most, then fell in love with it.
00:27:31Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
At 16 she dropped out of high school, took free classes at Skidmore College where her dad taught, and was admitted early decision to Princeton without a high school diploma.
00:29:03Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
During her first months of treatment she set what she joked was a world record for consecutive Grey's Anatomy episodes watched.
00:44:40Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
Post-treatment imprints included a chest port, scars, infertility from chemotherapy, extreme fatigue, and a compromised immune system from a bone marrow transplant.
00:48:14Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
Her doctors told her she had about a 35 percent chance of long-term survival around the time she pitched the column.
01:08:33Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
The first five minutes of her road trip were terrifying because she accidentally drove the wrong way down a one-way avenue in midtown Manhattan.
01:20:07Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
Before her daily to-do list she writes a 'to-feel list,' a habit from when illness left her only about three hours of usable energy per day.
01:37:14Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2021
Her billboard message would be the epigraph of her book, a line from Cervantes: 'until death it is all life.'
01:48:13Suleika Jaouad · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 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
His biggest recent pivot is on fatherhood: he never felt he'd be a good dad, but after years of friends having kids and telling him he'd be great, he applied his own question ('has anyone less capable figured this out?') and changed his mind.
00:02:05Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His planning horizon is only 6-12 months because if you can hit a long-term plan point-by-point it's too far within your comfort zone; doing well short-term opens unforeseeable doors.
00:06:42Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He champions 'identity diversification'—each time you try something outside your current identity, it buys permission to keep doing so and opens new realms of possibility.
00:07:13Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
A core belief driving his sabbatical: constant productivity is the enemy of oblique thinking, and distance (not stillness) is necessary to make highly leveraged decisions and be a 'category of one.'
00:27:10Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He softened after seeing dozens of materially successful friends still dissatisfied like 'a Hungry Ghost,' realizing success doesn't resolve most issues the way his subconscious assumed.
00:34:33Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He believes giving kids more than ~10-20 million dollars can seriously screw them up—past a certain point, 'more is a lot less.'
00:36:40Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His 10-year through-line is cultivating awareness to self-regulate a hypervigilant nervous system; he argues physiology activates first, creating 'a state in search of a story.'
01:05:53Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He recommends his fear-setting exercise for career paralysis, noting very few moves are fatal and the 'worst case' is rarely as bad as imagined.
01:16:18Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
Cockpunch, his NFT/fantasy project, raised $2 million—all proceeds went to his Saisei Foundation to fund early-stage science.
00:08:49Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He visited New York Comic Con for the first time and was stunned by its scale; he showed comic illustrations he made back in 1995-96 and once wanted to be a comic book penciler.
00:11:27Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He defines joy as 'the forgetting of the self,' whereas the quest for happiness can become an obsessive focus on the self.
00:18:45Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
To keep interview questions fresh, he prompts ChatGPT to generate questions as if James Lipton, Terry Gross, Charlie Rose, or Lex Fridman were interviewing the guest.
00:22:25Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
For longevity he says he doesn't track protocols and recommends just following Peter Attia, whom he's known since 2009 and trusts because Attia turns down lucrative promotional deals.
00:47:36Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His longevity frame is subtractive—not 'what can I do to live longer' but 'what can I subtract,' like avoiding heating food in plastic (phthalates) and using good water filtration.
00:50:14Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He cites the metaphor of writing a novel being like driving across the country at night with headlights—you only need to see far enough ahead to navigate.
00:58:34Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
The core relationship in his 'Legends of Varata' world is a father-son dynamic (Tyroon and his father); he says with $100 million he knows exactly the animated film he'd make.
01:01:38Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He's been using a Zen meditation app called 'The Way,' built by Henry Shukman, twice a day for 10 minutes, and invested in it early.
01:07:24Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He points to the free fear-setting resources on tim.blog—both his TED Talk and the text from The 4-Hour Workweek.
01:16:18Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 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

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