Tim Ferriss (Pt 1) on Biohacking Basics and Rewiring Your Money Mindset

3 Dec 2024 · 1 h 6 min

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Tim Ferriss (Pt 1) on Biohacking Basics and Rewiring Your Money Mindset

Episode Description

In this episode of Money Rehab, guest-hosted by Tracy DiNunzio, the conversation revolves around biohacking and financial mindsets with Tim Ferriss, a renowned author and entrepreneur. Tim discusses his abstinence from alcohol, separates fact from fiction in biohacking, and offers insights on identifying and repairing toxic money mindsets. This is the first part of a two-part conversation.

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Key Themes and Takeaways

Introduction to Tim Ferriss

  • Background: Tim Ferriss is a multi-talented entrepreneur and author known for his work on self-improvement and productivity.
  • Notable Achievements:
  • Author of five New York Times bestsellers.
  • Early investor in successful tech companies like Uber and Facebook.
  • Host of a highly popular podcast with over a billion downloads.

The Importance of Mindset

  • Money as a Story: Tim emphasizes that money is essentially a narrative we tell ourselves. The way individuals frame their relationship with money can significantly impact their feelings of success and fulfillment.
  • Scarcity vs. Abundance Mindset: Reflecting on his upbringing in a financially constrained environment, Tim discusses how scarcity can shape negative beliefs about money. Understanding this can help individuals reshape their money narratives.

Biohacking Insights

  • Abstinence for Clarity: Tim explains his practice of abstaining from certain habits (e.g., alcohol, social media) to reset his reward centers and gain clarity.
  • Meditation and Reflection: Drawing from his experiences and interviews, he notes that a significant percentage of high achievers engage in some form of meditation, which aids in mental clarity and focus.

Practical Tips on Personal Finance

  • Identifying Toxic Mindsets: Tim encourages listeners to reflect on their automatic behaviors or beliefs regarding money that may be harmful or limiting.
  • Choosing the Right Games: He introduces the idea that life and financial pursuits can be viewed as "games" with specific rules and goals. It's crucial to consciously choose which games to engage in and define what success means personally.

Health and Well-Being Considerations

  • Health is Foundational: Tim discusses the intersection of wellness and productivity, advocating for basic health interventions like weight training and balanced diets as foundational to effective personal and financial management.
  • Minimalism in Health: He promotes the idea that often, less is more when it comes to health practices—focusing on quality over quantity in routines.

Notable Quotes

  • "Money is a story that you tell yourself. Come up with a story that you can live with."
  • "Anything beyond your basic needs is a game."
  • "If you don't have 10 minutes a day to meditate, you need 10 hours."

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Conclusion and Next Steps

  • Up Next: The second part of the conversation will delve further into Tim's optimized daily routine, health hacks, and his approach to relationships and personal connections.
  • Listener Engagement: Nicole invites listeners to submit their money questions for potential inclusion in future episodes, fostering a community dialogue around financial literacy.

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Additional Resources

  • Podcast: [Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin](https://www.moneyrehab.com)
  • Submit Questions: Email moneyrehab@moneynewsnetwork.com

This episode serves as an insightful exploration of the intersections between financial habits and personal well-being, encouraging listeners to rethink their approach to both money and health.

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3:16Hi, it's not Nicole Lappin. This is Tracy D 'Nanzio, and if you listened to yesterday's episode, you know that I'm here guest hosting for our dear Nicole while she's on maternity leave. My guest today is Tim Ferriss, a man who needs no introduction, but I'm going to give him one anyway. Tim is a world-renowned expert on self-improvement and self-actualization. He's spent a lifetime studying and teaching the habits and mindsets of the world's most successful people. Tim has built, invested in, and advised huge tech companies like Uber, Facebook, and Shopify. He's written five number one New York Times bestsellers.

3:56He's had his own TV show, and he's probably best known for his podcast, which has over a billion downloads, and where he's interviewed everybody from Jerry Seinfeld to Tony Robbins to the dude from My Octopus Teacher. Tim brings free, practical education into the lives of tens of millions of people across the globe. I've been lucky to call Tim a friend and a mentor and an investor for over a decade now, and I feel lucky to know the very generous man behind the impressive resume. Tim and I got together in New York and talked for so long that we needed to split this episode into two parts. so today you'll hear tim talk about the biggest lessons he's learned from that star-studded guest lineup over the years why he thinks money is just a story that we tell ourselves and how to tell yourself a better one and he'll separate fact from fiction when it comes to biohacking tomorrow you'll hear tim talk about so much more we'll get his current daily routine and then we'll go really deep on relationships and money and who tim is dating and where he's finding matches now But for now, let's start with part one.

5:10Tim Ferriss, welcome to Money Rehab. Thank you. Nice to see you. It's so good to see you, my old friend. I am so excited to have you here, especially right now, because I don't know if you realize this, but we are almost exactly 10 years out from when you had me on your podcast on the Tim Ferriss Show. 10 years, back in the day. I know. It flew, right? Yeah, it's so fast. It's so fast. And you were just getting started. I think I was something like episode 30. Yeah, early days. And I have 800 or something. Something like that. Yeah. So my first question is, do you remember that you were a little bit drunk?

5:47When you interviewed me. Early days, I'm guessing, just to defend myself, I'm guessing this was probably during South by Southwest. Am I wrong? I don't remember. My guess is that I may have had some type of commitment beforehand and that I would have had tequila. No, okay. If I had to guess. Or did I get drunk in the episode? You got drunk in the episode. You had wine. Always a risky move. Is there any chance that you remember what you were drinking? For wine? Uh-huh. See, I don't drink much wine anymore. I would say I'm actually going completely dry this month, which is not a reflection of being drunk all the time otherwise.

6:28I can talk about alcohol and podcasting. I learned pretty early that you have to really be strategic about how you mix those two. Okay. Because how you perceive yourself as sounding and how good you perceive your humor to be is actually quite a few notches above reality. When you get past, I would say, two drinks. But I'm going to guess Rombauer Chardonnay. Nope. You remember what I was drinking. I remember what you were drinking. What was it? K Brothers. Amory Vineyard. Oh, wow. Block six. Does this ring a bell to you? No, but that highlights how much of it I had. Okay, you were into it. It was like a wine that you recommended.

7:09Okay. So have a little gift for you. Oh, wow. Look at this. Yeah. Oh, incredible. This is a wine that you were drinking when we did our podcast. Holy moly. I was going to ask you. That's really cool. Isn't that wild? That's really sweet. Okay, so there's one difference, though. Yeah. This is a vintage 2013. You were drinking a vintage 2010. Do you remember what you paid for it? I don't. I have no idea. Okay. The bottle of wine you were drinking when we did our podcast together 10 years ago cost about$100 when you bought it, but it now costs over$1 ,000. Really? Yeah. So that just proves that I'm not always a good investor.

7:44No. I sold early. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So this is 2013 because we love you, but not$1 ,000 worth. Thank you. I don't even love myself$1 ,000 worth. Thank you so much. You're welcome. So this will be, I will break my booze fast with Block 6 Cherez. Thank you. So booze fast, tell me about it. Every once in a while, I will abstain for anywhere from a week to a month from anything that I think has become impulsive or oversaturated in my life as a behavior. So what other things are you giving up? I find it easier to abstain from multiple things at a time. I feel like the incremental cost of each additional abstinence is lower.

8:25So if you're going to abstain, I like doing more than one at a time. I mean, I'm not sure we want to get into this right now, but no booze, no masturbating and no coffee for the next month, which is the hardest. No, no. Just based on my response, I'll let you guess. Really? Really? But there's benefits to that, I believe. To the most biblical abstinence, yeah, there are a lot of benefits. I just feel like anything that has become a coping mechanism for when you feel something you don't want to feel, which could be feeling distracted, it could be feeling stressed, it could be feeling rushed, it could be feeling on edge.

9:15If suddenly you have a coping mechanism to deal with that, which can be very socially acceptable. It could just be one glass of wine every night. It could be going out with friends to a party. It could be going to Netflix, right? It could be getting on your phone and wasting an hour before you get to bed on Instagram. It could be any number of things. And when I suspect I may have one or more of those things, I like to prove to myself that I can stop. And also, this is not too technical, but basically reset my reward centers so that I'm not suffering from some type of hedonic adaptation with things that should be rewarding.

10:05Totally. Hedonic adaptation. Yeah, it's true for money. It's true for lifestyle inflation. It's true for so many different things. and if you overindulge chocolate you eat it too much what happens you stop getting the same reward from eating said chocolate so you either need something higher octane or you need more chocolate and i don't think that leads good places typically so there are some places where adaptation is great weight training exercise fantastic but those are positive stressors Whereas a lot of the things that we use as coping mechanisms, I would say are neutral or negative stressors.

10:46Yes, totally agree. How do I know when I am suffering from too much hedonic adaptation with all my little habits? If you find a, I'd say if there's a degree of guilt associated with it, if you're like, it would really be probably good for me if I dialed this back. Could be anything. Could be sleeping in. Could be sleeping too much. Could be sleeping too little. there isn't any specific category and it's not like I constantly take a fine tooth comb over my whole life looking for these things I think that they're pretty obvious if somebody just sits down and reflects for a second what am I doing when I feel off kilter or I want to feel better what do I do and let's look at the list of things if it's go for a run okay cool If it's overeat late at night as a binge, probably not.

11:37Right? Oh, God damn. Stop it. So, look, I screw up all the time, too, not to make it seem like I'm just hitting home runs and pointing at center field all day. That's not how life works. but I would say at least once a year I like to do an extended fast of whatever my latest list of it's not really a list like few compulsive things might be could be sweet right I've gone a month without having anything sweetened that'd be an example is it hard in the beginning and it gets easier yeah yeah yeah for sure yeah first week is the hardest Tim every time I talk to you I feel like I need to overhaul my life just a little bit in a good way.

12:20Just one degree. Yeah. One degree here or there makes a big difference. You've had conversations with hundreds and hundreds of the world's top performers. What are one or two of the biggest unlocks from guests that you've had in your years podcasting? In the 10 years? Just pick out the top ones. No offense. Just give me one or three. I would say off the top of my head, a few that come to mind would be, and it's very, I'm going to make a meta observation about this first one, which is 70 to 80 % of the people I've interviewed have some type of meditation practice. It can take many different forms.

13:03It could be some type of repetitive exercise. It could be some type of seated meditation. But it also raises the question, for anyone who's studying successes, in quotation marks, I think this is a very important stress test, and that is, or at least a skeptical stance you should take, which is, is this what made them successful? Or did they start doing this after they were successful? Okay. It's very easy to get those mixed up. Yes, narrative fallacy. Narrative fallacy. It's very easy to mix those up. So I don't really know the answer. I don't know if it's possible to know the answer. But suffice to say that a very high percentage have some type of meditation practice, which has been a great motivator for me to do the basics.

13:50I meditate 10 minutes twice a day is what I'm doing right now. Okay. Like first thing in the morning and... I usually meditate after I have a little bit of tea, let's just say. That's fair game. Try not to do it right after eating. I don't think that's fantastic. I tend to be a little distracted by the digestion. And then before dinner or before bed is usually when I would do it. In the middle of the day, I find it too hard. I find it too hard with like transcendental meditation. They're like 3 p.m. I'm like, that's a really, really inconvenient time before dinner or before bed. Good for you for before dinner.

14:26I'm like too distracted by hunger usually. Just use an app, like make it easy. Do the easy thing first. That's true with any type of new behavioral change. Like do the easy thing first. If it's exercise, like choose something you like. And if you can't find something you like, do the least necessary, not the most possible, right? If you're like, I'm going to make this New Year's resolution and exercise an hour a day. It's like, if you have no exercise habit, do 10 or 20 minutes three times a week. Start there. And then you can pass that past failure you've set for yourself. And you can always increase the scope of it.

15:00But set it up so that you can win in the beginning. So for me, 10 minutes twice a day, I can't legitimately excuse not doing that. If you don't have 10 minutes twice a day, you don't have your priorities straight at all. You have no control over your life if you can't save 10 minutes twice a day. So I'll use an app. There's an app called The Way with a guy named Henry Shookman that I've been using now for the last month or so. I invested in it a long time ago because I love Henry. He's actually been on the podcast twice. He's a Zen master. I hate that term, master, but he's one of the few Zen teachers, one of three or four authorized to teach in the United States in this particular Zen tradition.

15:42And I really find it deeply settling in some way. Like the metaphor I would use, and I'm borrowing this from someone who wrote this a long time ago. Can't remember the attribution. Some Japanese monk. And he said, basically, meditating is a practice. It's called practice for a reason. Because you may sit down and feel like you're doing nothing. You may feel like your monkey mind is just going berserk with your eyes closed. But each time you sit and you're still, it's like taking a muddy glass of water and putting in just a little bit. of clear water. And every time you sit, you're putting in clear water.

16:21And as you sit more and more, it becomes more and more transparent and the sediment settles. And that's, I think, very reassuring for people who sit and they're like, I can't do this. I'm not built for this. And it might take a while. What I've noticed for myself is after, and you don't need to use this app. You can, I think that the waking up app with Sam Harris is also great. The introductory course specifically, I think you could also do TM. I did TM for a long time. TM, Transcendental Meditation, not trademarks. Yeah. And that's one observation. I would say as it relates to this audience, Seth Godin, and I'm paraphrasing here, he is very wise and leads a very unorthodox life that he's crafted through deep thinking and is a very present husband and father.

17:11I really admire him a lot. And he has said something along the lines of money is a story, right? Past a certain point, money is a story that you tell yourself. So come up with a story that you can live with. I think that's really important. What does he mean by that?

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17:49what does he mean by that money is and can be an abstraction of sorts be very hard to survive by eating your money right you're using it in exchange for other things. And so some people want success. Okay, what is that? And so if you don't like define that very carefully for yourself, what does success mean? Then you're going to wander in a lot of unproductive directions. This is true with power. I know I always want to be powerful. I want to be free. Okay, what does free mean? So I think definition of terms is really important. And with money, when we define it, But it's really telling the story of what money means to you, what it signifies, what it enables or disables.

18:34What is the story you're telling yourself? So for instance, when I was younger, I didn't grow up. My family didn't have a lot of money. So the story that I heard effectively, because we were operating from a really scarce mindset because we didn't have money. And it was never said this directly, but like, if you have money, all your problems go away. Right. It's like, wouldn't it be nice if we had money? If money only grew on trees, you have to have money to make money, which isn't true, by the way. Then the story I subconsciously crafted from that had all these features that ended up not being true.

19:06Right? Like having to have money to make money. Not true. And also, money will solve most of your problems. Not true. Money solves money problems. How you relate to it will determine whether you feel like you have enough or not enough. will determine whether you feel successful or not successful. How much of a role it plays in your life overall compared to other things? Family, personal interests, friendships. Where does money fit into the lineup? All of these, I think, are worthwhile questions to ask oneself because I know, and you also have met some of these people, people who have hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars who feel like they just need to hit this slightly larger number, and then they'll know everything can be okay, which is patently absurd, right?

20:01But that is the story that they've chosen to tell themselves, which is informed also by their peer group. So if you have a billion dollars, but all the people you're hanging out with have two, five, ten billion dollars, then you're not going to feel successful. if the story you tell yourself is that you measure that self-worth by the size of your bank account or stock portfolio, whatever it might be. So the way that Seth encapsulated that, as I interpret what he's saying, because he has made a lot of decisions in his life to, for instance, not start additional startups, and in place of that, focusing on having dinner with his family every night and cooking with his kids.

20:43and making hand-carved canoes and all these various things that he's done. And that's not by accident, right? He decided that, and I'll give another paraphrase. Let me think about this. This is from Tim O 'Reilly, who is founder of O 'Reilly Publishing. At one point, maybe still, very successful, influential technology publisher. So if you want to learn C++ or whatever, you would buy an O 'Reilly book. And I find him deeply fascinating. And one of his quotes, which goes well with Seth's, is effectively money is like gasoline. But just make sure if you're on a road trip, the goal is not to do a tour of gas stations.

21:34Oh, that's good. It's good, right? That's very good. And I'm not getting the quote totally, but you get the gist of it. Totally. And I think a lot of folks end up doing tours of gas stations. That is also unhealthy. What are some of the things that a bunch of wealthy, successful people tell themselves or tell each other that becomes unhealthy? I think that one is rationalizing all sorts of reasons why they need to make more money. because they often have been so fixated on competing to validate themselves and making money to validate themselves that they've let most of their other interests completely atrophy.

22:18They don't know how to do anything else. But after they've made X amount of money, for some people that's a million dollars where they feel like they've made it. For some people that's 10, 20, 100 million, a billion, whatever it might be. At that point, am I allowed to curse? Okay. They can't say, I don't have enough money without looking like a complete asshole. Right. They can't say that. Yeah. That has been taken away. So what do they do? They come up with all of these workarounds where they're like, now it's about compounded annual growth rate. What's the percentage growth rate now that I can't really with a straight face talk about some magical number I need.

22:56So now it's an addiction. It's an addiction. So they shift to that. They shift to legacy, which is this very nebulous thing. And by the way, if you give your kids too much money, from what I've seen, it completely ruins them as far as I can tell. So that is also ridiculous. Come on. We don't even know. Most of us don't know like Alexander the Great's full name. So are you really going to be remembered like 200 years from now? Of course you're not. Like, come on, let's be realistic. So that whole fool's errand, I think, is silly. there are aspects psychological aspects to it that i can relate to right feel fear of death mortality okay fine i get it like you're looking for something to exist beyond you okay fine yeah then there's the i i'm not gonna i'm not gonna give money to charity just yet because if i just compound and then when i'm much older or dead it'll be such a bigger number i'll be able to have so much more impact so much more generous i call bullshit i call 100 % bullshit yeah yeah that is just people who are rich and stingy wanting to be richer that's it full stop because the problems are also compounding just like capital so you could intervene with less money now to help bend the arc of history with respect to certain problems versus 20 years from now i think at least for me, it's important to have some identity diversification by maintaining some other deep interests so that you don't paint yourself into a corner where you have one path for self-validation and that is more money.

24:31That is a really bad position to be in. So Tim, what was it like for you? Did you have a number where you were like, this will be enough? Have you made enough? Oh, Number one, I don't really have a super high burn lifestyle. Yeah. I'm not cheap. Maybe I'm cheap with certain things, but... You're minimalist. Yeah, minimalist. Like, everything I'm wearing right now, except for the shoes, I got for free. Like, I'm not flashing a lot of fancy brand identity. Yeah, you also rolled in here wearing, like, shorts. Yeah, I came in wearing shorts, which I also got for free. There is that. You can take the boy out of Long Island, but maybe not the Long Island out of...

25:08I've got plenty of clothes. I've got more than enough clothing. I don't feel like I need more money. I'm very fortunate in that way. If you look at some of the decisions I've made over the last handful of years, they are clear indicators that I have come to that realization. In the sense that, for instance, before we started recording, and maybe some of it was included, who knows, but we were chatting about recording and how impressive this entire studio is and how my recording studio basically fits in my backpack. Two turntables and a microphone. That's Tim's whole setup. It's two lav mics that I could hold in the palm of my hand and one headset if I'm doing recordings remotely.

25:52That's it. It can literally fit in my backpack. I could have four such studios in my backpack, no problem. and have largely minimized video in part because I do not want to have a fixed location. I do not want to require people to travel to me. I want flexibility and options. All of that is at great financial cost. So if you did video and had a whole studio and did a fancier production, you could probably be growing your audience and distributing across more channels. Yeah, YouTube is the growth mechanism. Didn't you have a TV show at one point? I did. I remember seeing you on my Apple TV. Oh, yeah.

26:32I did two TV shows. And I think at that point, this was also quite a while ago. So this was when TV was, as network television and cable both combined, more relevant. But in a cable cutting world, it just really isn't necessary. And there's so many amazing productions on YouTube, on Instagram, on TikTok. And there are people who are really good and rival anything you would see on broadcast. And they do it for far less money, far less bloat, far less bureaucracy. It's wonderful. And that's not the game I want to play. And I think it is worth contemplating. I think about this a lot, that above a certain point on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you have shelter, if you have warmth, if you have food, a handful of other basic necessities, everything beyond that that you choose to do is a game of some type.

27:37And people might say, well, hold on, I need to pay my mortgage. And you just, yes, true. but that's shelter that's right there in the basics yeah that's shelter that's in the basics right or you're renting now so i would say i'll say two things and this will actually tie into another podcast guest so you're choosing to play a game and the first key is to be aware that's what you're doing and that the goal for me is not first and foremost to get good at the game meaning whatever game I've subconsciously or accidentally ended up in is to choose the right game Tim this is good I want you to say it again slowly yeah anything beyond your basic needs is a game there's a game there are rules that you're implicitly or explicitly agreeing to there are conditions for winning or not winning okay and these are all stories that you tell yourself probably in a peer group.

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28:33Right. And you don't have to play that game. There might be costs to not playing that game, but you don't have to play that game. It's not a matter of life and death. And I think much of my time is spent thinking about the games I want to play and what games am I playing right now that may not be serving me, which is very closely tied to what stories am I telling myself, right? What thoughts am I taking to be true? I believes. And you can come up with a lot of interesting workarounds or alternatives once you start poking at that stuff. And for instance, if you happen to live in, I'll give some coastal examples because they're just easy.

29:21If you choose to live in say LA, what are, what's the game a lot of people are playing in LA? It's the fame game, right? If you're in New York, what's one game that a lot of people are playing in New York? It's the money game. Go to D.C. Okay. What game are people playing there? The power game. Yeah. And then there are many other, there are a million other games. You can play with yourself. Yeah. Like internal games. Yeah, there's tons of that. I would just say, like, if you had to make a parody, like a Seinfeld episode, that's too dated. But if you had to make an episode that was like a parody of your friend group, what would be the games that your friend group are playing?

30:05Because chances are you're playing the same games, right? It's like, what would a Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm episode pick your, I'm going on the string of Larry David from Seinfeld to Larry David. We get the idea. If you're going to make a 30 minute parody of including your friend group, right? Yeah. Like, what would you make fun of? Yeah. Because chances are those same things apply to you on some level. And you can get there maybe through humor to some important truths that might be hard to tackle head on otherwise. Do you think most people are playing a game that they landed in by default?

30:42Yeah, for sure. Like not even really knowing what game they're playing or why. Sure. Or they started playing a game deliberately, like I did with entrepreneurship, with a certain set of beliefs about the game. In other words, when I make X amount of money, when I make a million dollars, I will be a millionaire officially. And that will mean I have one. And then I can make X percent per year. Also another assumption and belief based on that. And I can do all the things I want to do. But then to focus, to get to that million dollars, what happens? You ignore all of these facets of your life, potentially, or you neglect them.

31:21And then you get to a million and you realize the one thing that you've become really good at to the exclusion of other things is making money. So what do you do? Now you decide you need five million. Right. And also because if you want to feel good about yourself, you want to wake up every day and do what you know you're good at so you can win at something. It's very hard to switch gears when you've only developed that muscle. Yeah, exactly. For me, having some type of sports component has always been really important because things can take away your money very easily. Like this is fortune, meaning the fates.

31:51Yes. Chance. Yes. Can do really gnarly things to your money. And if you have all your eggs in that basket, I think it makes you fragile. So for me, if my business or my podcast or whatever isn't doing as well as I would like it to do, you can measure that a bunch of different ways. If I had a good day, like I came here from archery, right? If I had a good day doing archery and I'm taking it really seriously, it's still a good day. And that makes me more anti-fragile. It makes me more resilient. So I try to have at least a few of those kind of interests that are, not to get too fancy, but uncorrelated.

32:27This is a show about money. You can talk about uncorrelated investments. You can also talk about it with identities. And you can talk about it with interests. It's like a diversified portfolio of your identity. So you're not overly committed to one thing. And if it goes bust, you go bust. Yeah. Do you think there was any area that as you were building your money, your fame, your career that you neglected? Oh, sure. Yeah. There have been times certainly when I was neglecting self-care. Okay. Sleep, consuming too many stimulants to stay up, maybe drinking too much. It could be anything like that when you are just running on fumes, when you've pushed it too hard.

33:11Yeah. Something's got to give. Yes. And that might be time with your friends. It might be time with your significant other. It might be time with your family. It might be getting to the gym or doing some type of exercise. It might be your diet, right? Maybe you're stressed out, so instead of reaching for a glass of wine, you reach for a bag of chips. It's the same thing. Yeah, totally. Different tool, same job. So what happens to Tim Ferriss when you're not taking care of yourself? I feel like in the last decade or two, I've been quite good about catching myself before I get to Code Red. You are quite good at that.

33:49Yeah. So what happens, Tim? I mean, the first thing to suffer is typically sleep. Okay. And in a sense, I'm grateful for that because it is self-limiting. Like you just run out of steam. Yeah. If you don't sleep, if you sleep poorly for long enough, you're going to crash. And then that's the wake up call. But in the last probably 20 years, certainly, mostly, especially in the last decade, I think with certain non-negotiables, I've been pretty good at avoiding that. And I think mentally just categorizing certain things like, for instance, the meditation, you categorize that brushing your teeth or taking a shower.

34:32Like you must. You're not going to go like a week without showering if you're exercising, right? Okay, then you can't go a day without meditating. That's a good thing to put in all of our brains. How many people love brushing their teeth? I'll do it, but it's not like getting a massage. I'm not like, oh yeah, baby, Swedish massage for my gums. I'm not into it, but I do it. Why? Because you've conditioned yourself to do it. It is non-negotiable. You've told yourself it's non-negotiable. I don't know. I'm going to tell myself now that not meditating is so gross, it's like not showering. Yeah, exactly.

35:01Because you're like, how could I not find 10 minutes a day? I don't find 10 minutes a day all the time. Yeah. And I'll get in bed and be like, oh, how did I not do that? That's also one of the benefits of just saying, it doesn't matter when you do it. If you do it right before bed, great. Yeah, just get it in. I would say, and this is borrowing from somebody else, I can't remember the attribution. If you don't have 10 minutes a day to meditate, you need 10 hours. It's kind of like symptomatic of other problems. I would say, okay, fine. Like if we're in a negotiation and you're saying, I don't have 10 minutes twice a day.

35:30Fine. Okay. 30 seconds twice a day? Do you have that? Nobody really with a straight face can say no. It's like, all right, now we're just determining. It's not whether you do it or not. We're just negotiating the duration. Maybe that's it. You flip the switch to doing it, and then you build. One song? There was a point when I was running really ragged, and I just decided, okay, I'm going to listen to, I was really into it. I think he's an amazing musician, Prince. So I wanted to listen to some feel-good Prince song. I was like, all right, I have to meditate once a day to one song. That's it. and yeah that was the foot in the door you don't have to get the whole body in the door just get the foot in the door and it's like a little reward because you get to hear a song that you like sure hold on to your wallets money rehab will be right back and now for some more money rehab

36:31okay so you were like the original or one of the original biohackers and now all that stuff has gone super mainstream yeah we're all like we're listening to huberman and peter t all these guys you're friends with and and it's like we need to all be millionaires and have seven hours a day it's like i have to cold plunge but i have to also heat i need my red light i have to don't drink coffee when the morning routine is three hours long it's and the evening routine and all that so help us separate the wheat from the chaff if i'm not a millionaire if i don't have a three hour time span for my morning routine what are the must-haves so i've changed perhaps my viewpoint on a lot of this in the sense that i used to test everything imaginable i was the human guinea pig i I was way out at the edges.

37:23And I don't really do much of that anymore. In the sense that I think health very often is what we abstain from as much as it is what we do. It's a very, and look, I love the United States. I love it. But it's a very American thing, at least prototypically American thing, to think more is better. it's very much part of the ethos of the country and to look for things to do because i think americans have that protestant work ethic and if it is to be it is up to me and i must make it happen which implies doing things which also often implies adding things right which is why the supplement markets do so well in the u.s but i have started to look and i will answer your question directly and give you a couple of easy things that what you don't do is as important as what you do so for instance i maybe you're not going to see it on camera but i have a lot of people ask me about believe it or not skincare right i'm 47 and they're just like what do you do because like the photos of me from 10 years ago look the same as they do like i haven't i don't look discernibly different and i and uh i just among other things i'm like number one maybe it's genetics who knows i don't think so though like my family it's not they all look like benjamin button or something cover your sims family yeah i'm just saying it doesn't seem to be purely genetic i would say as an example right the only soap i use and this is not a paid endorsement or anything is dr bronner's unscented baby soap that's it for everything now i have the luxury of doing that because I'm bald too, but I want to avoid phthalates.

39:14I want to avoid, which often can be found through fragrances, right? They very often come together and make whatever I put on my skin as innocuous as possible. And the skin is an organ. You absorb a lot through your skin. I very rarely, this is not medical advice, but very rarely use any kind of sun protection. I just moderate my skin exposure to sun. If you have to put a bunch of chemicals on your skin to be out in the sun for long periods of time, don't be out in the sun for long periods of time. There are some exceptions, right? If I'm going to go surfing, fine. I don't want to be turned into a lobster.

39:48And you have light eyes, right? So that kind of goes with the skin. Yeah, very sensitive. Very sensitive. And so on and so forth with food. Your whole skin care routine is Dr. Bronner's and go in the sun sometimes. Yeah. I literally don't. I don't put other shit on my face or on my body. I think it is a gamble. You just don't know. Like more is more, but more is not better. And doing more, the temptation to do more. I'll give you, this is going to be a little digression, but I'll give another example. Right. So people have issues, whether it's not medical advice, again, not a doctor, don't play one on the internet.

40:25So talk to your general practitioner, but whether it's digestive issues, IBS. rheumatoid arthritis or whatever, people are looking for what to add, what pill to take, what thing to do to fix it. There is an interesting book. I don't love every aspect of it, but I believe it's called The Oldest Cure. It's a book about fasting. And how many issues seem to resolve themselves if you just fast? It's not suitable for everyone. but by the way we're evolved to handle fasting yeah how many things just go away if you stop if you give your body a chance to rest as all animals do and just take a break from food or take a break from carbohydrates and go on a ketogenic diet for instance a lot of these intractable sometimes considered untreatable psychiatric conditions respond really well to something that's now called metabolic psychiatry, which in simple terms is putting people on a ketogenic diet.

41:32And it's protein of fat. So Chris Palmer of Harvard, if people want to look into this, has spoken really well on this. I interviewed him on the podcast, but he has a book as well. And people who are on a dozen medications for borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, go on a ketogenic diet, and literally within a week, 90 % of their symptoms go away. So for me, I think about maybe a better way to put it is subtraction as much as I think about addition, whereas previously, I think I was very addition focused, because that's how you come pre-programmed. If you are in the US in a lot of places, but you come pre-programmed to look for what to add.

42:12And I think that in a lot of cases, that's a mistake. Okay. So for these are things I think of, I'm not going to say it applies to everybody but just in terms of of health yeah your mileage may vary so number one diet and exercise it sounds so boring but the further along people get if you look at say peter tia who is very credible and knows how to read research knows how to perform research and does a great job i think on the drive his podcast and also on his website and in his membership pieces of his program of breaking down scientific studies and showing where things are hyperbole, where things are exaggerated and where things are mistranslated by the media.

42:59Very valuable. He has a series of blog posts called studying the studies, which I encourage everybody to read. But the point of saying all that is that the more he learns, the more he's like, yeah, you got to do weight training. You got to do zone two, which is getting your heart rate, certain types of cardio and probably good idea to limit some of your carbohydrate intake and that's what you should do. And for instance, I've spoken to researchers at the very, very tops of their fields who specialize in things like metformin. So metformin is a drug that like a lot of drugs, like GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic and so on.

43:41These were designed for type two diabetics in most cases or in a lot of cases. and then rich people start toying with them for weight loss or whatever it might be longevity you say it like that because it's always it gets in the hands of longevity medicine doctors and we figure out yeah so it starts with rich people who test it on themselves and then it might start with bodybuilders or people like wasting diseases right these sort of edge cases then bleed in and then they become bigger things but i was talking to this and a lot of these so i'll give an example of something that some very wealthy people do.

44:14They might use something like metformin for longevity. They don't really have their diet or exercise super dialed. They're half-assing it, but they take metformin. And when I talked to, I'm not going to mention by name, but a very famous researcher at a very well-known university, and he's like, yeah, I don't think it makes any sense for you to take metformin. And I was like, what do you mean? And he's like, you're already getting 99 % of the benefits by having your exercise and diet dialed. He said, if you have a huge deficiency in those areas, yeah, you'll see some benefits because you're using it as a correction for other deficits.

44:50But if you're already doing what you're doing, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's not what I expected you to say. I expected you to say that nobody should take metformin until or unless they've got their diet and exercise dialed in. We're adding all these things when 99 % of the lifting is just doing this. but you're saying people should use it to compensate if they're not no he's not saying they should use it to compensate they do he's saying people do use it to compensate but if you're already getting exercise you don't need exercise in a pill and we know that exercise as long as you don't get injured has pretty limited side effects right we've been exercising as a species for a long time right we've been doing manual labor for a long time whereas metformin really who knows right there are lots of drugs that come out like thalidomide remember that one oops there are drugs a long time takes a long time to figure out wow that was a disaster and now people are having like three-eyed babies fantastic yeah i do think less is more and if someone were going to you don't need a thirty thousand dollar cold plunge right number one if you wanted to do something like that you can get like a hundred dollar inflatable cold plunge on Amazon.

46:05No, but in fairness, I have that. And it's super annoying. Because you have to put so much ice in it. It is annoying. Look, I've done it too. I've done it. It's annoying. But it's not expensive. It's not. And it's a good way to see if you're really good at it. Try before you buy it. Try before you buy it. Does it benefit you a lot? Are you really good at it? Also, forget about the inflatable thing. Look, go to a gas station. This is what I did for years. Way back in the day. Just buy bags of ice. Put it in your bathtub. Yeah. try it try it out for a few weeks because you see what it does for you that you're doing it for just a couple of minutes and so for all that labor and all that work that you have to do to create the cold plunge or all the money you're going to spend is that the highest return roi for yeah it depends like for me it's a very good investment because it helps with anti-inflammation without me chewing on advil all day with various sports injuries i've accumulated which comes back to the exercise because like don't overdo it oh i mean i've had 20 plus fractures so oops but secondly mood elevation oh interesting so for anti-depression for anti-anxiety cold for me is the best pill you can buy how do you figure that out do you like not do the cold and then do the cold and see a change in your mood oh yeah super on your own little experiment super obvious oh it's super obvious it's not subtle it's not subtle and cold baths used to be prescribed by doctors for melancholy back in the day.

47:32What is this? Depression. It's just an older label for it. And then that fell out of favor because it's a pain in the ass to administer, right? People would go to these sanatoriums and they'd sit in a bath with their head popping out with a cover. It looks bizarre. People didn't want to go to these places just to sit in cold baths. Sounds pretty miserable. And nonetheless, I do think there was a kernel of something valuable there. In terms of longevity and so on let's ask a clarifying question because this is important what are we really trying to accomplish what is the outcome that you want because there's also not to get too fine tuned here but there's lifespan like at what age do you die and then there's health span meaning how mobile how fast how active how cognitively sharp do you want to be for how long yes these are different things totally and different protocols they're different For instance, you could do, we know that caloric restriction works for life extension.

48:29But do you want to live a life? Unfortunately, speaking, let's just say as a male, I mean, I was going to say it might make your hair fall out. I don't have to worry about that. But hair falling out, plummeting testosterone, no libido. Is that the life you want to have? Like 70 good years where you eat well than 90 restricted states. Yeah, also, which is why I do not think, I'll give you two opposing perspectives, in a sense.

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49:19i'll give you two opposing perspectives in the in a sense so the first is i told you i have a low cost like low burn lifestyle generally the one place where i do spend a lot of money is with very good concierge doctors all right so if you're going to make money for something i think the highest leverage use of money is probably personal trainers which i do not currently use, but I use coaches for various sports. And then it would be really good doctors who have great access for you and your family to specialists, have access to the latest research, who can move mountains to make things happen quickly, who know how to do really high in diagnostics.

50:05That's where you spend money. Okay. Most of the ingredients that a doctor who's very good in my opinion who's looking at the full spectrum of inputs peter tia wood right it's not just which problems do you have which pills can i prescribe it's the diet the exercise etc those don't need to cost a lot and exercise look you can get a gym membership for what 20 to 100 bucks a month and if you're not exercising yet you don't even need that and you don't even need that you don't even need that you get one kettlebell you can have an amazing gym my gym for many years even though I could afford to do the fancy stuff was a few kettlebells in my garage.

50:45That's it. And I was in incredible shape. I was in such better shape than I am now. And that's it, right? And the other place I would spend money is on quality food. Not everybody can, but if you can avoid pesticides to the extent possible, that's a good investment, right? Look up the dirty dozen. For instance, there's a list of vegetables called the dirty dozen and then clean 15 or something like that. I put this all in the four hour body, not trying to sell that book, but a lot of it holds up. That came out in 2010, and it highlighted a lot that has since become mainstream. Cold exposure, glucose monitors, continuous glucose monitors.

51:20I remember that that book was like a little fringe almost at the time, and now it's all the stuff we've all been doing. Yeah, it's all mainstream now, a lot of it. So if you look up these vegetables, those will basically indicate, in the case of the Dirty Dozen, the fruits and vegetables that are most typically covered with pesticides and other types of industrial chemicals. And you just avoid those or maybe choose organic for those if you're going to consume them. And then the clean 15, those that are generally going to have the lowest load of pesticides and so on. Like you do not need to be a millionaire to do that.

51:57I was doing that when I I was making 50 grand a year. Like you can pick and choose, like do what you can. It doesn't need to be perfect. Okay. Just like, it's like the meditating. Can't do an hour a day? Fine. Can you do 30 seconds a day? Great. Like maybe you have one thing you like, raspberries or blackberries. I'm making these up, but berries often get a lot of spray. Yeah. Okay. Maybe just for the berries, you pay the extra$2 for the organic. If that's an assurance that there are low pesticides. It may not be. Yeah, is it? Is it? It gets a little tricky, but I'm saying like, do what you can, right?

52:34Fair. And that's it. So I really think a lot about minimizing chemicals, heavy metals. Like I very rarely eat tuna, for instance. Any bioaccumulator, like larger animals that would accumulate. Right, because they eat the smaller fish and they have, so it has what, more mercury? More mercury and other things. Might have other heavy metals, things like arsenic. so that's easy not eating tuna is pretty easy not eating tuna yeah it's pretty pretty easy so they're little things like that or for instance in the case this is going to be out of reach for a lot of folks but if you're going to eat say red meat which i do try to get we can leave the ethics aside but just try to get the most nutrient dense clean meat you can and maybe that means you hunt once a year like I do.

53:25But seriously, maybe that means you hunt once a year. And that's a few months of meat. And then you trade with people to get other things like I do also. You do that? You trade the meat that you hunt? Yeah, I don't sell it. That's illegal. But if I have a friend who's got a moose, I got an elk, and then I have a friend who's got a million pounds of tomatoes and I can't even look at another tomato. And then I have another friend who does a salmon fishing trip once a year and I can't have another salmon sandwich. great then you can mix and match and that is something very poor people do all over the place it is hunt right so if you're like well i can't afford whole foods fine okay there are options yeah i'm not saying that you're going to love all the options but there are options so like the og biohacker is saying diet exercise eat clean skip the tuna don't make it so complicated don't Keep adding.

54:23And every once in a while, am I going to have a poke bowl with tuna? Yeah, sure. Fine. Every once in a while. Skip the tuna mostly. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying that it's very easy to believe. I've spent a lot of money testing all sorts of things. It's very easy to believe, especially if you're on social media where half of the influencers are trying to sell you something because they get a kickback or they get a sponsorship payment or they have some rev share, whatever it might be. you need to go to this clinic to get peptides to get stem cells to get this that or the other thing and you go to the website and you're like oh my god this is twenty thousand dollars there's a lot of bullshit out there and there are also some good things out there but we live in a capitalist society i'm a capitalist i think there's a lot to be said for market-driven solutions it's not a perfect system lots of issues too but you're dealing with social media platforms that want to make money people are attracted to those also sometimes because they want to make money so you just need to know that you're swimming in those waters so when you go online you might find various biohackers and they're almost all selling stuff what does that mean it means that to emulate them is going to be surprise surprise expensive but for instance like very hard to sell fasting like who's gonna who's gonna profit from fasting i'm getting rich off of telling people to you know stop you for a few days for giving out tips that like make you no money oh none whatsoever that's like a big thing if i wanted to make i could have made I mean, I could have made probably, and I don't think this is an exaggeration, probably$100 million from now.

56:09If I had launched a supplement company with the 4-Hour Body, I did not want people to question my credibility or my motives. So my currency is credibility. That is the story I tell myself, that it is more valuable than the cash. I think that's right. And another thing, it's pernicious out there, right? Because you've got influencers who might be trying to sell you something. And even when they're not trying to sell you something explicitly, they're benefiting from making more outrageous statements than not. Yeah. Because it's an attention economy, too. And they're getting clicks. And people are like, ooh, what?

56:45Really? Oh, my God. I need rapid mice on or I'm going to die? Ah, I have to click here and learn about it. And you never did that either. Like, you refuse to traffic in outrage or sensationalism. Yeah, I don't do that. That is where it is most expensive for me. Yeah. Because the game you're playing is to be credible, to be like a reliable source of information. Which means, for instance, I try not to do it. Sometimes it slips through because I have multiple people working on stuff. But the clickbait headlines for videos and so on, I really try not to do that. And I get severely penalized for that.

57:18I want to just clarify one thing, too. That not everyone on social media who is selling something or getting a rev share is doing that in bad faith. Right. There are, everybody's got to make a living. And also there are people who really believe in whatever they happen to be recommending. Right. Look, I think disclosure is important. Right. But like the way app with Henry Shookman, like I'm an investor. I invested super early when they basically had nothing because I had him as a podcast guest and I was like, this guy knows what he's doing. And one of my friend's lives was totally transformed, Kevin Rose by Henry.

57:54And I was like, okay, sure. But I'm disclosing it. So the disclosure are super important and there are some really fascinating things out there right so just because someone is selling something or recommending something they get a rev sheer on does not mean that you shouldn't pay attention but you should be aware that you might be asking a barber if you need a haircut totally right in which case the answer is going to be yes there are some drugs that i think are interesting but i'm not at a point where i would rapamycin okay you do you think it's interesting. I do think rapamycin is very interesting.

58:31It's an immunosuppressant. It's used in organ transplants, right? So you have to be very careful with something like this. But Peter Tia talks much more credibly about rapamycin. So I would listen to something that he's put out related to rapamycin. And I remember interviewing a number of experts on a trip to Easter Island, actually. And we talked about rapamycin. This was probably close to ten years ago. Wow. Eight to ten years ago. That was way ahead of when it entered into the kind of main thing. It was super, super early. Yeah. And that's because rapamycin was first isolated and identified on Easter Island, even though it occurs many other places.

59:12What? And the native name for Easter Island is Rapa Nui, which is why rapamycin is called rapamycin. So to come back to your question, let me lay out just like a couple of things that are critical for me i think the meditation of some type right archery i think is meditation for me as well right but i don't want to split too many hairs here weight training non-negotiable right as you get older cardio is not enough for men and women i would say i would say especially women with the risks of osteoporosis and so on and sarcopenia which is age-related muscle loss if you don't want to fall break a hip and then die a handful of years later which is very often what happens you need to have muscular strength the most reliable way to do that perhaps the only way to reliably do that in modern society is to do resistance training and if you are a woman listening to this you are not going to become super bulky and look like professional bodybuilder.

1:00:21It ain't going to happen overnight, certainly. So strength train. And at least most of the guys I know, they're attracted to strong women. Doesn't mean CrossFit Games champion, but like strong women, dancers. But women, I would say, and I don't know the exact number, but it's something that they have one-twentieth to one-tenth of the circulating testosterone of men. men have trouble putting on muscle yes a lot of men want to put on muscle and they have a hard time so don't worry about getting bulky but do focus on getting strong and the way to do that keep it simple once or twice a week very slow cadence weight training what does that mean that just means like five to ten seconds up five to ten seconds back until you have muscular failure where you can't get any further push for another five seconds you're done with that exercise hit all your major muscle groups, it should only take about a half hour, maybe less.

1:01:19Do that once or twice a week. You're done. You're done. And then there are other things like the aerobic training zone two, stuff like that. Also doesn't need to be expensive, right? Get a bicycle, run up, run up a hill. Do kettlebell swings. There are a million ways to do it. The expense is not an excuse. And by the way, if you're like, I can't afford a kettlebell, there's something called a T-bar kettlebell you can go to a plumbing store and buy materials for five to ten dollars where you can make your own adjustable weight kettlebell then you do need plates but the plates are like a dollar a pound so fine and if you want purely bodyweight stuff that is really effective gymnastic strength training gst with a guy named chris summer who's the former coach for the men's national team in the u.s no weights required and you done gymnastics i have done gymnastic strength training.

1:02:12I'm not really built for gymnastics, just too many fractures and wrist issues and stuff. But you can get in tremendous shape without weights at all. It's still resistance training. You're just using body weight and different ways to approach that. So this is just a long way of saying that you don't need to spend what a lot of these folks online pride themselves on, which is I spend$200 ,000 a year. I spend a million dollars a year on this and this. You don't need to do that. Let them do that. They might find something interesting. And give you information. Yeah, great. Hopefully for free. Yeah, fantastic.

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