Happy New Year!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening to The Tim Ferriss Show, which will hit its 10th anniversary soon.
Below are some of my favorite TFS moments from 2023. I’m using them, and I believe you can use them, as launching points to become healthier, wealthier, and wiser in 2024. I’ve thrown in a few laughs, too, as those are perhaps most important of all.
The clips below cover a wide range of topics—the very tactical and practical (exercise routines, optimizing to-do lists, building habits, goal setting), life-transforming decisions and big-picture moves (rites of passage, personal reinvention), and much more.
2024 is going to be very big! Secret plans are already in the works…
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Sending all the best to you and yours, and please enjoy (click on the guest’s name for the full episode):
1. Arthur Brooks explains how to create lasting satisfaction:
2. Dr. Peter Attia on his personal rules for alcohol consumption:
3. Derek Sivers goes into when and why you should stop playing “the game“ you’re playing:
4. Dr. Andrew Huberman addresses the importance of neck strength training:
5. Dr. Shirley Sahrmann recorded her exercise routine after discussing it on the podcast:
6. Sam Corcos explains his approach to getting things done (and ditching the standard to-do list approach):
7. Kevin Kelly on cultivating a strong rest ethic:
8. Atomic Habits author James Clear on how to build good habits in 2024:
9. Professor John Vervaeke on reading for personal transformation:
10. My thoughts on AI companions, and how they will reshape society (from a recent Q&A):
11. Live demo with famous pickpocket Apollo Robbins:
12. Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains how to “stretch time” with novelty:
13. Founder of Shake Shack Danny Meyer on the four quadrants of performance:
14. Famed explorer Wade Davis on the importance of rites of passage:
15. Why We Sleep author Dr. Matthew Walker on the impact of coffee on sleep:
16. Investor Bill Gurley on the superpowers of Jeff Bezos:
17. Award-winning game designer Justin Gary on the art of goal setting and how to make progress:
18. Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project Sheila Heen on inviting (and giving) feedback:
19. My friend Kevin Rose on his magic rice cooker:
20. Dr. Willoughby Britton on how to choose your next meditation retreat:
21. Co-Creator of Exploding Kittens Elan Lee on the keys to creating a great game:
22. Neuroscience professor Dr. Gül Dölen on whether psychedelics can help with autism:
23. Seth Godin on why we need meaning:
24. Jake Muise on becoming a lava cowboy and rescuing cows with a helicopter:
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I LOVED your interview with David Eagleman. My husband, Danny ordered the Neosensory wristband for hearing loss the next day. It has been a life-changer! He still uses hearing aids, but I don’t believe he needs them. Danny should be David’s spokesperson!
Thanks, Tim!
It would so excellent if this was available as pure podcast rather than YouTube links in the blog. Regardless thank you a deeply additive, masterful podcast.
true that 🙂
Le Crème de la crème.
Thank you Tim
Thanks for the summary, there are some great moments!
Why not put them together and use it as a podcast / youtube channel episode? It would be easier to consume and you would have more valuable content posted.
This is outstanding! Just what I was hoping to find.
Hello TF team! Would you consider altering the initial stock Youtube like & subscribe click and ding features at the beginnings of these videos? I get that repetition makes an impression and that you’d want people to do both those things, but I feel like I’m being hypnotized into annoyance while trying to get to the message in each respective video. 24 dings in this case, like a slot machine… If it must stay, perhaps a lag beforehand pairing with the intro, instead of having (In my humble opinion) overused, obnoxious and repetitive sounds playing over TF or Guest and taking away from or distracting from the real content. Thanks for all you do, this content is still great 🙂
Hi Tim, I love the podcast. I’ve heard you say that you’re experimenting with ways to evolve it or explore what’s next. I’d like to suggest interviewing outside of your current demographic (this list is almost all white men, almost 1/3 bald white men). There are so many fascinating women of color building our world right now – you would multiply your audience and exit the feedback loop.
Love this – If you could add text transcripts, that would be amazing, for those who don’t have time to watch the youtube clips!