#769: Q&A with Tim — Reinvention, Visualization Techniques, Making “Risky” Decisions, Parenting Considerations, Intuition, New Hobbies, Dating, and More

27:28But I'm looking at anti-inflammatory protocols that could have an effect on this type of issue, but I haven't looked at it well enough. So I don't want to give you any opinions. Let's see. What are some of my heresies? I mean, I think a heresy that I have is just, I think a lot of what we try to do in modern life is a very new experiment. So I think if we look back at older societies and they're not all rose colored, it's very seductive to look back at indigenous group X, Y, or Z and say, oh, you know, they had it all figured out. They were in tune with nature. And it's like, well, if you go back, you also very often even now see domestic abuse and lots of alcoholism, other issues.

28:12So it's not ever perfect anywhere. But I would say, if we look at what gives people meaning, I think we've been led astray with a lot of kind of brainwashing and theory that doesn't map very well to anthropological study or really just common behaviors that you see around the world that seem to have some durability. And Nassim Taleb talks about this a lot. So I would just say broadly thinking that in a lot of ways, individually, just in terms of like rugged individualism, we've gone off track a bit. and that a lot of the, I'd say, common ways that we plan our careers and lives are actually at odds with ultimately what's going to give us fulfillment, I would say.

29:01I can unpack that more another time. All right, let's see. So a couple of people asking about conferences. Maybe, maybe at some point I'll do a conference. It would be quite small. It wouldn't be more than 200 people. So if I ever did it, it's a lot of work, frankly. And when I did it last time, it was basically not-for-profit because I spent so much money on the quality of the event. So I don't know. I'm not sure I have the energy to do it as a non-profit. And if it were not to be a non-profit, it would just be stupidly expensive. It would be like 30 grand a person or something obscene, which I would feel kind of silly putting out there.

29:37How realistic is it to consider the healthspan possibility, RJ, to get to 150 years old in good health? I'm not really sure how to evaluate this, to be honest. I'm more focused these days on experiential lifespan and trying to harness, and I've spoken about this before, but trying to organize events, gatherings of friends, in some cases, very intense physical experiences like long, difficult hikes or pilgrimage trails with people I really care for to basically pack a few months into, say, a week at a time. I think that's a reliable actionable way to extend your experiential lifespan, to feel like you've basically packed 150 years into your, let's say, 85.

30:24Most attempts at extending longevity in any meaningful way have all failed to date, right? And maybe we are, in fact, at this cusp of all these amazing discoveries that will lead us to live a really long time. Maybe that's rapamycin. Maybe that's some type of time-restricted feeding. Maybe that is folistatin. Maybe it's who the fuck knows. you know there's always something there's always some new pence de leon fountain of youth that people have found especially on the internet i'm not super bullish on that stuff here's the thing i would say for myself they're likely to fail so i would rather have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised later than to take all these things and suffer what will most definitely be significant side effects that we haven't foreseen with a lot of this new stuff.

31:14So like Falstaten, for instance, like it basically cripples FSH and animal models. So it's like, do you really want to be infertile? Can you reverse that after the fact? Like, yeah, great. You have eight pack and you look younger than you did eight weeks ago, but now your balls don't work. So I'm not ready to make that trade. You know, maybe after I have three or four kids, sure. But I would just be very careful with that kind of stuff. So 150, I mean, if we're talking about that in the next, basically putting people on a glide path that will land them there in the next 10 to 15 years, I'm pretty skeptical.

31:47I mean, especially with increases in environmental toxins and other issues that will besiege humanity over the next 10 to 20 years, certainly. I mean, more weather issues, forced migrations, all sorts of shit. I'm not dystopian about it, but it should tell you something that I'm not, about my personal beliefs at least, that I'm not doing a lot of that stuff. Yeah. I mean, if you account for infant mortality and antibiotics, and then you look at, say, my entire family history on both sides, it's like, yeah, males tend to die around 85. That's just the way it goes. So I would love to live longer, but I'm not going to take a lot of unnecessary risks where I see significant a potential downside.

32:27So long answer. I'm interested in it for sure. Like I track some of the science.

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33:58All right, Andy Bruce, any tips on walking the Kumano Koto, taking your 11-year-old son with you? That's cool. That's fun. There are a million different ways to walk this pilgrimage trail in Japan, which is the sister trail of the Camino de Santiago in Europe. Those are the only two World Heritage pilgrimage trails. So there are like a thousand different ways you can do the Kumunokodo. It's like tributaries that then filter down to the main shrine and temple because they basically took like Shinto mapping and then put Buddhism on top of it. I would pick one that crosses rivers and water if you can.

34:37That's just a really pleasant feature when you're hauling ass and getting really sweaty and so on. Bring walking sticks for sure, like Paul's. especially for the downhill. You'll be walking on rock a lot. It's very hard on the joints. So nice thick heels, you know, hoka shoes or something like that. I would suggest like you will feel it in your ankles and your knees. You know, my thought is if you're going to do something longer, because some people will do like a week at a time or 10 days at a time, you could spend months on the kumun lo kodo, is do a little bit less than you think you can each day.

35:13Don't push it super hard because you may be then handicapped the next day. If your knee really bothers you, you're not going to want to put a lot of weight on that for the next 10 kilometers or 20 kilometers. I'd do a little bit less than you think you can each day. All right. Something about the tweet, if the kettlebell swings is king of the exercise, where else can you find the king of X? Could be your relationships, finance, anything. I think a lot about barbell approaches to life. For instance, high-risk angel investing and then like muni bonds as boring and as stable as you get right so it's kind of one or the other like high risk high return with small amounts of money or very stable predictable boring and not playing in the middle as soon as you start playing in the middle you're like i'm going to play with tech growth stocks and then you at least in my experience that's how you get your face ripped off or that's how i get my face ripped off so i think about barbell distributions a lot physical fitness and finance and everywhere.

36:09Okay. Aside from Richard Feynman, if I could bring back one person from the dead for a podcast episode, who would it be? Oh, man, there's so many, right? I'm tempted to say like Marcus Aurelius or something, but Seneca, who knows? I mean, probably Seneca because I've just read so much of his stuff and I'm curious if I would find the guy to be an arrogant prick or what the vibe would be in person, right? Assuming we're speaking the same language. I would be super curious about Seneca. He gets very mixed reviews, but I mean, I'm once again listening to an audio book on anger or on Ida IRA. I mean, his writing's amazing.

36:43The guy's writing is amazing. But what would he be like in person? Would I be like, oh yeah, this is the uncle who talks too much. God, this guy's long-winded. Maybe. Ben Franklin, I'd be interested, very interested in. Those are a few that come to mind. I mean, and I could come up with 100 more for sure. But those are two off the top of my head. Do I have any mentors that I contact you regularly for life advice? This is from Jeff. I found at Midlife that I really missed out on having fatherly mentors in my 20s and 30s. Yeah, there are. I talked to one this morning. In fact, he's early 70s, very healthy, really takes care of himself, great marriage, close to his kids, and I think he has grandkids now.

37:21So we did a check-in for about an hour today, caught up, and this is a good reminder for me to do that more often. So I do feel good about that. Let's see. Paula, this is one of my thoughts on ayahuasca and antidepressants. You've been doing ayahuasca for 13 years, only just started taking antidepressants. Unsure if I should mix both. This is from Brazil. You need to be very, very, very careful. So ayahuasca plus certain antidepressants like SSRIs can cause a potentially fatal serotonin syndrome. So you need to be very, very, very careful with that. So I would absolutely speak with doctors about that.

37:57I would not mix them until you get the go-ahead from doctors. And I imagine a psychiatrist who prescribed the antidepressants. I'd be very careful with that. Ayahuasca is one of the riskier compounds, at least of the, let's call it classically known psychedelics, with respect to combining with antidepressants. So I'd be very careful with that. And side note, I learned not too long ago that people who are taking lithium should really not screw around with psychedelics. A lot of adverse events have been reported, at least with some of the classical, let's just call it not entirely tryptamine, but LSD, psilocybin, etc.

38:33So if you're taking higher doses of lithium, now there are some ways that could be conflated because if people are taking lithium, what are they taking it for? They might be taking it for any number of conditions that would be contraindicated with psychedelics in the first place. So who knows, but I wouldn't mix lithium with these things either. All right. How can you incentivize someone to mentor you? I'm not sure how to do that. I think you need to be a really good student. Number one, he said no money possible. I mean, frankly, I pay for it a lot. I mean, I have friends who learn from me and I learn from them and they're older than I am and I consider them mentors.

39:11but at the end of the day i actually find it in some ways cleaner to just pay someone and if you wanted to get mentorship that isn't expensive like maybe you go to toastmasters or you join the eo like entrepreneurs organization or ypo depends on what you're looking for but like mentors don't need to be expensive at all i have a mentor in archery and he's also kind of a mental performance coach doesn't need to break the bank so i would say you know you can go to your local YMCA and find a coach in some sport. And if they're good at all at anything, they will have life lessons for you, especially if they're a bit older.

39:48I would say that's my advice for the moment. Do I babysit sometimes for some of my friends? I mean, I don't really babysit, but I'll watch their kids for a little bit or watch a Disney movie with their kids, like young kids. How did I find it? I think I'm a kid at heart. So for me, animals and kids are, I don't want to say easy, but especially if they're little, I find them pretty easy. I think when, if I have kids, which is the hope at least, if they get to the point where they're like petulant, kind of like mean spirited kids where they're just being assholes, I think I'll have a hard time with that.

40:25I think I will have a hard time once they like know which buttons they're pushing and they're just like, drilling it in that I'm going to have trouble with. But like little kids who just like are dysregulated and lose their shit because they haven't developed their prefrontal cortex like yeah i can deal with that pretty well let's see my opinion uh this is from judy glp1 medications this would be like munjaro or ozempic glp1 agonists i believe they're in clinical trials now for depression slash anxiety yeah i haven't looked at them specifically for that I did put up a blog post recently from Johan Hari on GLP-1 specifically.

41:04So if you want to get some of the science and also a firsthand report of that, I would just go on Tim.blog and search Johan, J-O-H-A-N-N, last name Hari, H-A-R-I. All right. So this piece of artwork, you know, people love this. I love it too. I bought this for$80 at an antique warehouse in the middle of nowhere. I saw it and I just loved it. and grabbed it. I love it every time I see it. Maybe it's less, 60 bucks, 80 bucks at an antique warehouse. Yeah, it's one of my favorite pieces of art. That's a turkey tail below it. There are a lot of turkeys around here. Or not tail, turkey feather. All right.

41:43For agents, book agents and stuff, last time I checked, which was a long time ago, Publishers Marketplace is a great place to look. Also find books that are kind of in the same category or vein as yours. Look at the acknowledgements and you'll very often see the agent there. Then you can reach out to them directly through something like Publishers Marketplace or these days a lot of these agents or agencies have their own websites. Thoughts on how to approach making some great in-person connections? Yeah, I would look at my talk. I gave it South by Southwest, which had the title, How to Build a World-Class Network in Record Time, something clickbait-y like that, but it actually delivers.

42:20I would check that out. All right, this is Dolan. The last set was from Claudine. Thank you for those. This one's from Dolan, if I'm pronouncing that correctly. Basically anything that I would like to talk about that I haven't had an opportunity to talk about yet. For instance, my interest slash journey in connecting with animals and nature, maybe some insights from my personal exploration of psychedelic and non-ordinary states of consciousness over the last 10 years. So I have probably a thousand pages of notes on all this. And at some point, I feel like that might be the most important book that I write, but it's going to be a lot to put it together.

42:56So in a way, the book I'm doing now where I'm collaborating is sort of a possible warm-up for that because I don't think it's a book that I would want to do by myself. It would just be such a heavy lift. And yeah, we'll see. We shall see. But I think if I talk about that at some huge length, it'll probably be in a book. I'd want to think about it because it'll get so strange. It will get so unbelievably strange. Number one, first, all the scientific regulatory on the radar, above the line, logistical stuff that I want to handle in the psychedelic therapeutics world, I want to handle first. Because if I ever write this book, it is going to get so weird that at least 20 % of the people who read it are going to think I'm completely insane.

43:42It'll just be so strange. I wouldn't want it to damage my current credibility that I have to get things done in those worlds, including some of the stuff with animals, man. If you talk to people who've been in this stuff for, let's just say culturally, for hundreds or thousands of years, it's not weird. But to most folks, it's going to sound pretty fucking weird, which I get excited about. But I'm going to wait until I'm like, you know what? I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks because it's not going to interrupt anything else I'm doing. I don't care. Then maybe that book, but it's going to be a little while.

44:16All right. This is from Andres. I'll paraphrase here. Basically, I'm very rational and methodical about decision-making and so on. Rational approach is admirable, but sometimes being irrational or spontaneous can inject a lot of energy and fun. Have I found space for rationality to play a role in my life, the irrational and emotional for decisions? And if so, have they ever led me to alter my well-thought-out plans for the year? So I would say yes. I don't know if irrational would be the word I would use because you have like, let's take moral. I don't know what the proper word would be here, but you have moral behaviors.

44:54You have immoral behaviors, and let's just call those non-moral behaviors. Then you have amoral behaviors that are kind of like in this no man's land. So I would say if you have like rational, irrational, the opposite, then there's like irrational. I don't think that's a word, but somewhere in the middle where it's not driven by logic, it's driven more by feeling. I'm doing more and more of that these days, for sure. I mean, our sort of evolved system here with lots of valuable apparatus for navigating reality predates language by at least this kind of language by millions of years. So yes, I found space for that.

45:35Although I'd be very careful about, But I see this quite a bit in Austin and places like it, where there's this like neo new agey stuff where people are like, I'm just using my intuition. And I think very often that is used by people who just want a justification for doing what they want to do, or doing something that is easier than the hard thing. And they're like, well, I'm just using my intuition, right? Intuition is interesting to me when it points you in a direction you didn't expect. Let's just say you go on a date and on paper, they're perfect. You're like, I'm going to love this person.

46:08And then you meet them and you're like, something's a little weird here. Like I want to like them, but this isn't right. That's where intuition is valuable or like a business deal. Everything looks perfect. And then there's something about it. Like, Oh, my gut just doesn't feel right. That's where intuition is interesting. If you're like, this all looks perfect on paper. And you know what? Even though all my friends are telling me it's a terrible investment, my intuition tells me to do it. Like, that's where I'd be like, well, wait a minute here. Is this just confirmation bias? What are my thoughts on blogging in the age of AI?

46:39I mean, look, AI is amazing. It's really incredible. But writing for me is a way of clarifying my own thinking. And I do think that taking the time to craft words without the assistance of AI is helpful. I might use AI to get past the blank page, but I think it's seductive as a drug. And just like most people can't tell direction without Google Maps now, I think it's very possible, almost inevitable, that people will lose certain faculties that they currently have by overusing AI. So we shall see. But I plan on doing more writing to the old-fashioned way. I have not used binaural beats. I am very interested in that.

47:21And actually, just reminded me somebody owes me something on binaural beats so if you have any recommendations for what types of binaural beats let me know let's see for our dog training yeah maybe never say never best thousand dollars i spent lately i mean it was more than that but on the archery training it's always something like that it's very rarely stuff i mean sometimes it's stuff like there's uh I bought an extra SoRite, P-S-O-R-I-T-E, and a mini rumble roller that I can travel with. And those have been amazing for just rolling out my glutes and piriformis and my legs and stuff before bed.

48:06Really helps with sleep a lot. But that's like, I don't know,$100,$150. I buy very, well, I try to buy very little stuff. just ends up causing me more stress as clutter around my house than the value that adds. So I try to get rid of a lot of stuff. Good question. It was the last thousand dollars worth of clutter that gave me the most relief when I gave it away. That's what I should think about. Am I aware of Javier Millet? I think that's how you say his name in Argentina. I am. I've actually listened to some of his speeches. Pretty interesting stuff. I don't know enough about him, but a number of my friends are big fans.

48:43So I need to do more research. Best thing that I spent an ass load on, what's the best thing I spent an ass load on? Not to get too technical, would be a family trip. I took my parents and brother and his wife on a trip around Europe. And that was definitely an ass load of cash. But I think that was a good investment. I'd recommend everyone read something called The Tail End by Tim Urban. That is a good investment of time. It's very short. All right. Do I like painting, not sketching as a hobby? I haven't learned how to paint. I would like to dabble in ideally watercolor, I think. But do I have any quick tips for getting up to 10 to 20 minutes on the acupuncture mat?

49:26Yeah, that's for people who are curious. The Nyoya acupressure mat, I think, or other. There are a lot of invitations that I'm sure just as good. I don't go to 20 minutes typically, but like 10 to 15, if I'm going to do it, the first three minutes are going to be torture. So you just have to get through the first like three to four minutes is my experience. Otherwise I don't have much to tell you. It can be pretty intense. Thoughts on dating apps. Oh man, this is like Warren Buffett covering his eyes and like pointing towards wall street because half the people are going to have terrible experiences.

50:04I don't know, to be frank. I mean, I think Hinge has been one of the better options so far. I think that in terms of just quality, people have to pass some hurdles and add some information. The League is pretty interesting also because you can search by interest, which is so critical. I don't know why you can't do it on any other app, but you can search for skiing or whatever to find somebody who has similar interests. But the League is really only effective in certain cities. It's not used widely everywhere, but in a place like New York City or LA or whatever, you could find people who are pretty well-educated, interesting.

50:38But a downside is people tend not to use it that frequently. So you might have a great match and they don't see your message for six months. So go figure. It's a jungle out there, folks. Be careful. And there are a lot of people catfishing. So watch out for that too. Do a video call before you meet up with someone. What's my favorite science fiction movie and why? Big fan of the second Dune movie, frankly. Ex-Bachina, I remember really enjoying. There are a lot of great science fiction movies. I think Her was fantastic. At the time, it seemed insane. And it's basically already there. If you look at the latest editions of ChatGPT and so on, things like Replica, with a K, Replica.

51:18Yeah, Her is basically already here. It's pretty nuts. Give me a second. Taking a note. Thank you for the binaural thing. Brainwave. Smart mind. okay i'll check it out with questions about cock punch it'll it'll be more interesting once i release the rest of the stuff or a bunch of it then you'll have a lot more to chew on and i'll give you a foreshadowing it's not really a foreshadowing it is a statement that i hope is a statement of fact and that is i will have some fan fiction writing competitions like elimination competitions and so that will reward people who really dig into the details they'll also have to be decent at writing, of course.

51:59Claudine, have I let the enormity of 10 years of TFS really land, not just from a metrics POV, but from a positive kindness deepening, et cetera, human level. It's been such a force for good and light in this world. Thank you, Claudine. That's very kind of you to say. I would say that I did when the celebrations were happening, but I could do a better job. I could do a better job of sitting with that. So thank you for the reminder. It's easy for me to just move on. Like, yeah, yeah, good job. But you just did your job, so don't get too happy with yourself. And like, what's next? What's next? Right?

52:33Like, yeah, you did your job. And that's fine. But don't get too smug about it or self-satisfied. But I find that can be very self-defeating. Right? So I did take time to celebrate for the 10th anniversary. I had a great time. The in-person meetup in Paris was great. and it was really fun to in-person hear the stories from people who were deeply affected by the podcast. So thank you for the reminder. I will take a moment today to revisit that. Thank you. I should travel to meet girls. Well, I mean, why was I in Europe for six to eight weeks? Who knows? Maybe it was related to that. Is it possible that my mood improved during this Q &A?

53:11Yeah, it's entirely possible. I was exhausted, guys. I'm not going to lie at the beginning of this, but I enjoy these interactions. So it is certainly possible that my mood improved as a function of my energy going up. So thanks for that, everybody. Where do I see myself in 30 years? Good Lord. I don't know. Hopefully not six feet under. We'll see. I'll be 30 years. I'll be 40, no, 76, 77. Fuck. So I don't know. Hopefully I'll be doing black diamond skiing because we found the fountain of youth. Have you suggested a workout routine? This is mags for my parents. If not, what would it potentially look like?

53:50How would you approach it? Yep. I would say super slow protocol. Look up Ken Hutchins and the super slow protocol. And yeah, my dad's lost, I don't know, 80 pounds, like let's call it 40 kilos in the last year. So he's made a lot of progress. That's slow carb diet. It's all straightforward from for our body. and then super slow as applied. So super slow in very basic terms is minimum five seconds up, five seconds down. So if you're doing a pressing movement, five seconds slow, right? Up, five seconds down. One set to concentric failure. Could be even slower. Could be 10 seconds up, 10 seconds down.

54:30But especially in elderly, quite effective for building muscle mass and increasing bone density without injury. So that is probably what I would, I mean, that's what I prescribed to my parents. That plus walking to the extent that it's possible, right? Kind of barbell, once again, with slow carb diet as the glue that holds everything together. How do I record a podcast while walking? This right here. This is ATH-M50X. It's an Audio-Technica headset. It has a USB-C attachment. Plug that into your iPhone. And then you can use Riverside or some other app. There are a lot of different ways to record.

55:10All right, let's see here. This is from Mariana. Over the years, I've followed and learned from you and your guests. I've heard you say several times that I'm interested in parenting. Have you ever considered being a single-parent family by choice? I, too, for many years was trying to find the perfect partner. Until I turned 41, my doctor told me it was time to unfreeze my eggs since I was still single and looked for the partner. Decided my best option was to be a single parent. So I got a non-anonymous donor and had my son when I was 43. freeze. I was six now. We travel the world together. Could not be happier with the drama-free life we have.

55:37Just wishing to see you fulfill your parenting dream and wondered if I would consider this option too. Yeah, I would consider it. I would consider it. I think for a long time it was no, but I would consider it. I would. I mean, of course, ideally I would have the partner, but I would consider it. Yeah, it's not off the table, but I'm still fighting the good fight, getting back into the dating as much as I'm just like, fuck, this is a young man's game doing this online dating bullshit. Frankly, just the communications burden is so much. Anyway, to answer your question, yeah, it's on the table for me.

56:16Joel, I see yours. One of my big goals is to create the world's first coffee mug to sell for more than a million dollars. I like that. I like that as a goal. I don't really have a great recommendation for how to chip away at it, you could look at from a PR perspective, at least people who have sold pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge or sold hamburgers that are like gold plated or like have some type of gold on them for like$300 at some pizza joint, right? And the reason they're doing it is to get attention for everything else. So what I would say is you could think about selling a million dollar coffee mug and make that your pass fail, or you could come up with a compelling argument for why a coffee mug, particular coffee mug, should sell for a million dollars, and then use that as a PR hook to bring attention to everything else that you're doing, which is probably quite a bit easier.

57:09But if you do that and someone buys it, great, fantastic. You did it. You sold one for a million bucks. Now, that said, if that is the only measure of pass-fail, then it's extremely binary. But if you were to use it as a means by which you draw attention to everything else you're doing, then I I think it's pretty interesting. So there you have it. Have I been to Brazil? Yes, I've been to Brazil five or six or seven times, actually. All over the place, in fact. How big is my staff? Pretty small. A few people? Two, three people? Four? Yeah, something like that. Three or four, I guess, at this point.

57:44It's from Hussain in Toronto. After the 10th anniversary, I tried to organize a follow-up meeting. However, I had to cancel due to little interest. I'll try again at the end of the summer. Can you think of a cost-effective Tim Ferriss way to make attendance at these events irresistible? Well, you might consider, I'm just making this up, so this is on the fly, but you might consider partnering with another organization like EO or YPO or whoever, who might be looking for membership. And you could say, you know, I'd love to host this type of events for fans of Tim Ferriss or however you want to phrase it, listeners of the Tim Ferriss show or readers of such and such book.

58:19And perhaps we can do an event where they come for free, get exposed to these following speakers. I think having speakers would be helpful. So you could try to do that on your own, or you could make it more of an event, right? Some type of activity. So you could do, I don't know, Tim Ferriss show paintball extravaganza, right? And get 10 people to go do paintball or something. Who knows, right? You have to make it, what are they considering as alternatives? It's kind of like with Molly, let's just say. My dog Molly. I remember at one point I was working with this dog trainer and she saw me giving kibble to Molly as the treat, just her regular dog food, but in little pieces.

58:59And she goes, what is that? I was like, oh, it's kibble. She's like, oh man. She's like, you're not going to train your dog that way. She said, it's a crowded bar. You got to tip with 20s. She's like, you're giving her bullshit. You have to have really good treats. You have to tip with 20s. It's a crowded bar, right? To compete with the squirrels and the dogs and the other stuff, the smells. so I would say those are a few ideas but if you have a small group of friends you can just take their temperature with a couple of different options and see how it goes right I mean those are a few initial thoughts but maybe helpful maybe not all right I think those are the only ones that I can really answer well from the pre-submitted questions I'm going to take a look at a few things that are left here.

59:45Timothy Keene, this is visualization or affirmations. I haven't used affirmations much, to be honest, I don't think. Actually, that's not true. With five-minute journal and things like that, it's kind of these statements like I am or whatever, I'll also frequently have something like you have plenty of time or there's plenty of time, so that I don't feel artificially rushed, which never produces great results or great feelings for that matter. Or something like, frankly, this is true for a lot of people on this Q &A. You've already won the game. You speak English. You have a computer. Hopefully you're healthy.

1:00:20You've already won the game. So just, number one, take a breath. Realize there's no game on some level left to win. You've already done it. You've already crossed the finish line. So everything else is gravy. So just take a chill pill and breathe. and then for visualization you know i use that mostly with athletic stuff sometimes if i'm going to get it on stage for like a speaking engagement i'll visualize how it's going to go i'll run through it visually just like i have a vr headset on like i'll close my eyes i'm very visual so i'll imagine the whole thing walking out sitting in the right chair looking to the audience how i'm going to hold the mic etc and i'll run through some of that as rehearsal let's say those are those are what come to mind yeah check names i didn't realize that hodinky was check for watches That's hilarious.

1:01:03Yeah, what would this look like if it were easy? Cindy, question that I still ask myself all the time. What do I like to ask my, this is Victoria, ask my fans when I meet them? I ask who they would like to hear on the podcast. If they could only pick one or two guests and they can't say Elon Musk or some huge name. No huge names allowed. Who would you like to have on the podcast? That's the question I ask. And I actually have had a lot of those answers translate to guests on the podcast. Randy, if we did a fan meetup, would you endorse it or say it's okay. I mean, this is where I have to be careful about taking on too much responsibility with these things.

1:01:36So probably not because if I did that, then anyone who's ever hosting a meetup would come to me for the same thing and it would just create a huge comms problem for me and my team. So I'd probably need to be hands off. To have a fan meetup, I don't think you need my permission. You know, if you're turning into like some crazy business, then using my name, then it turns into a separate thing. But do I like electronic music? Yes, I do. I mean, I'm pretty old school. I mean, I listened to Shingo Nakamura quite a bit for like chill mixes, Deadmau5, pretty old school, but I wrote 4-Hour Body to a continuous mix, like a three-hour set of Deadmau5.

1:02:13There's all sorts of stuff, but it's usually something that's going to give me a fair amount of energy. I listen to like lo-fi beats type stuff when writing sometimes if I need something a little down tempo for God knows where. I listen to a lot of heavy, heavy metal when I'm writing, oddly enough. State Story Strategy. Yeah, I still use State Story Strategy. People can look that up. I got that from Tony Robbins. I would consider having more comedians on the podcast, but I feel like other people do a better job, honestly. Like Rogan, there's so many comedy podcasts out there. I want to differentiate myself in some way that feels authentic to me, category of one kind of stuff.

1:02:50But yes, Austin is now a comedy center. It's pretty wild. All right, you guys. I think that's me for now. I'm going to get outside and shoot some arrows. And I really appreciate everyone's time. Thank you for the hosting, first and foremost. So awesome. So fun to see all of these events around the world. And would love people to stay in touch with anyone they met at those events or look to explore, explore, see what, see what we can learn from each other. right? It doesn't have to be limited to anything I talk about. No, just find people who have, who are philosophically values aligned and see what you can learn from each other.

1:03:27Go for some bike rides or something. It doesn't have to be coffee and wine. Get out and do something, right? Try something new together. Anyway, that would be my wish for you all. And really appreciate everybody being so engaged. And I hope you have a wonderful week and to be continued. Maybe we'll do some more meetups. All right, you guys. Thanks, everybody. Bye. Hey, guys. This is Tim again. Just one more thing before you take off, and that is Five Bullet Friday. Would you enjoy getting a short email from me every Friday that provides a little fun before the weekend? Between one and a half and two million people subscribe to my free newsletter, my super short newsletter called Five Bullet Friday.

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