How to Secure Financial Freedom, Maximize Productivity, and Protect Your Health (#299)

Tim,

I’m an earlier riser (5am on most days) for productivity reasons. How does your suggestion on the slow-carb diet of having a breakfast with 30g of protein, 30 minutes upon waking, reconcile with that type of daily schedule? Any thoughts on how to plan meals around that type of daily schedule? If it matters or helps, I usually get to bed around 9pm.

Thanks for all you do!

fred

Nice picture of Tim for this segment. Good to see him content.

Wondering if you’ll ever start transcribing the podcasts? I’ve bookmarked several of these, but find it difficult to focus on an audio format. I know podcasts are really convenient and widely used, but I think there is a good percentage of people who don’t dig the audio format. Would love to read them if you ever decide to convert them to written form.

Wonderful podcast Tim. Thank you for sharing your insights.

Hi Tim,

Thank you for a great episode and for all the value that you’ve brought to people lives, especially mine!

Question regarding diet, I’m a fan of your slow-carb diet but recently watched a documentary on food (can name it if you need/want to know) which suggests all animal products aren’t too good for us. My question is do you have an opinion on this or can you point me to an MD in the opposite camp to balance the argument?

Thanks again,

Gav

Hey Tim- I’m a long time fan- thanks for sharing your life (successes and failures) with the world.

I know that behind every great entrepreneur is also a great team, and I’m curious as to what your “team” looks like. Do you use one assistant to organize everything or do you use many? Do you employ your assistants, or do use a virtual assistant group? What do your brainstorming sessions with them look like- for example, how do you explain to them what you want to accomplish, and then have them take the actions to get so much stuff done?

Thanks in advance!

I heard a “y’all” come out of your mouth during this episode!! 🙂

Hope you’re enjoying Austin so far!

-Rachel, Austinite

Hi Tim,

I’ve been following your work and have to tell you that I pay attention the same way that you watch a fire–with one eye closed and leaning back. You light up the part of me that thinks I’m not quite working hard enough or smart enough, until I hear you say things like, “What would this look like if it were easy?” And the way you interviewed Catherine Hoke recently. Now I’m leaning in.

I’ve been a very impressive person until recently when I quit a high powered job. I might have even been on a track to be interviewed by you someday, or at least I’d think that was a sign I was living right. Now I’m writing a book about our relationship to our work–we’re not good enough unless it’s hard and complicated. This will be a life long study for me. To that aim, I think it would be perfect if I could interview you in the future. Could you put me on your calendar for sometime in 2028? I turn 40 that year and it would be a milestone.

Hi Tim, I loved this episode but was sorry to hear what sounded like a cold? My go-to is a constant drip of hot water with fresh ginger and lemon, apple cider vinegar and a snowflake-size drop of oregano oil. Hope you feel better soon!

Tim, For whatever reason, this talk and the most recent Ted Talk reminded me of Poet William E. Stafford, late of Oregon. Something about his generation and the stoicism that was native to it and the emotional clarity of his poetry stuck me as something you might grok. I think a link will be messy in this so here is one of his poems:

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

BY WILLIAM E. STAFFORD

If you don’t know the kind of person I am

and I don’t know the kind of person you are

a pattern that others made may prevail in the

world

and following the wrong god home we may miss

our star.

For there is many a small betrayal in the mind,

a shrug that lets the fragile sequence break

sending with shouts the horrible errors of

childhood

storming out to play through the broken dike.

And as elephants parade holding each

elephant’s tail,

but if one wanders the circus won’t find the

park,

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty

to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

And so I appeal to a voice, to something

shadowy,

a remote important region in all who talk:

though we could fool each other, we should

consider—

lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the

dark.

For it is important that awake people be awake,

or a breaking line may discourage them back to

sleep;

the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —

should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.

//izl

Hi Tim,

Love the podcast. You briefly talked about meditation in this podcast and I had a question about it. I am 56 and want to start meditating. However, I sit a lot for my job and don’t need another reason to sit more. What do you think about Qigong (I’ve heard it called moving meditation) in place of sitting meditation. Is it as effective? I would really appreciate your, or any one else’s, advise on this….thank you

hey Tim …. thank you, omg thank you. been looking for valuable skills for securing financial freedom to pair with some visualization videos for the law of attraction. What do you think about them ? [Moderator: link removed.]

I really enjoyed this episode. Aside from this discussion, I have heard you mention the 50% divorce rate a few times. While that is technically correct, I think it is a bit misleading. Any social scientist with any credibility would advise you against using a single univariate statistic to explain a data-driven decision. So, I don’t think it’s a good idea to say that a 50% divorce rate is a deterrent to marriage. Just looking at bivariate relationships tells a much different story. For men with college degrees, the divorce rate is only about 20%. Once you factor age, income, and race into the equation (assuming your potential wife would also have a college degree and be over the age of 25), your divorce odds would only be about 10-15%. Those statistics actually make a pretty strong case to get married and are really optimistic! Maybe things are different at the highest level of success, but most marriages between college grads are really stable and, I would personally argue, very meaningful and fulfilling.

Guys, The question where Tim talks about not having to go full in as an Entrepreneur and assessing if you are cut out for entrepreneurship (structuring yourself, being able to deal with uncertainty), reminded me of a Podcastepisode of ArtofManliness (I havent`t read the book yet) [Moderator: link to AoM Episode #251 removed.]

Hi Tim,

I love the podcast, books, and all other things you do.

i was wondering if you can share your view on vaccinations/ anti- vaxxers.

You always have an interesting and unique perspective on things.

Thanks.

P.S. the 4HWW changed my life.

Hi Tim, In regards to the question on financial freedom I would highly recommend listeners to check out Robert Kiyosaki’s board game “CASHFLOW”. It is far more educational than any book I have read on the topic and puts everything in a practical context.