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Tim Ferriss

A productivity expert exploring high-performance habits, lifestyle design, and health experiments.

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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Sami Inkinen of Virta Health — Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Rowing 2,750 Miles, and Lessons from Fixing Metabolic Health in 100,000+ People (#866)
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Sami Inkinen (@samiinkinen), a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the founder and CEO/president of Trulia and Virta Health. Virta is o...
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Sami Inkinen of Virta Health — Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Rowing 2,750 Miles, and Lessons from Fixing Metabolic Health in 100,000+ People (#866)
Interview with Sami Inkinen on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Sami Inkinen of Virta Health — Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Rowing 2,750 Miles, and Lessons from Fixing Metabolic Health in 100,...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Coaching, and the Power of Micro-Progressions (#865)
Jerzy Gregorek (@TheHappyBody) is a 4x World Weightlifting Champion, co-founder of UCLA’s weightlifting team, and co-creator, with his wife Aniela, of the Happy Body program.  To fill out the form ...
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The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Coaching, and the Power of Micro-Progressions (#865)
Interview with legendary investor Elad Gil on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Coaching, and the...
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The Practice of Self-Inquiry: 10 Questions for People Who Are Too Hard on Themselves
The following is a guest post from Paul Conti, MD, a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry training at Stanford and at Harvard, where he was appointed chie...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman (#864)
Please enjoy this transcript of a special episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, featuring four listener favorites—Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman—whom I invited to an...
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How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman (#864)
Short audio segments from Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana Chapman on how to simplify your life! The post How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Anne Lamott, C...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More (#863)
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Elad Gil (@eladgil), CEO of Gil & Co, a multi-stage investment firm, holding company, and operating company working on the world’s most advance...
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Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty AI Frontier, How Coke Beat Pepsi, When Consensus Pays, and Much More (#863)
Interview with legendary investor Elad Gil on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Elad Gil, Consigliere to Empire Builders — How to Spot Billion-Dollar Companies Before Everyone Else, The Misty...
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How to Keep Your Brain Sharp: A Practical Playbook Beyond the Basics 
The following is a guest post from Dr. Tommy Wood (@drtommywood), associate professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on brain health.  In...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer — From Food Stamps to the Super Bowl War Room (#862)
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with Cathy Lanier. Cathy is the chief security officer for the National Football League (NFL), supervising all operations and activities of the NFL Secu...
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Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer — From Food Stamps to the Super Bowl War Room (#862)
Interview with Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Cathy Lanier, NFL Chief Security Officer — From Food Stamps to the Super Bowl War Room (#862) appe...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: 4-Hour Workweek Success Story Brian Dean — From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies (#861)
Welcome to another episode featuring a 4-Hour Workweek case study—a conversation with someone who has read the book, applied it, and built a life and a businesses I never could have imagined. In th...
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4-Hour Workweek Success Story, Brian Dean — From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies (#861)
Interview with Brian Dean on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post 4-Hour Workweek Success Story, Brian Dean — From Dad’s Basement to Selling Two Companies (#861) appeared first on The Blog of Au...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life (#860)
Please enjoy this transcript of my interview with daredevil Michelle Khare. Michelle lives life to the extreme in Challenge Accepted, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion ...
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Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life (#860)
Interview with Michelle Khare on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More (#859)
Please enjoy this transcript of another in-between-isode, with one of my favorite formats: the good old-fashioned Q&A. Books, people, tools, and resources mentioned in the interview Legal condi...
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Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More (#859)
Welcome back to another in-between-isode, with one of my favorite formats: the good old-fashioned Q&A. Please enjoy! This episode is brought to you by: Additional podcast platforms Listen to th...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: The Random Show, Couch Edition! — Supplements, Hummingbirds, Cock Rings, Optimizing Mitochondria, Breathing and Balance Training, Cool Grip Strength Tools, and More (#858)
Please enjoy this transcript of another wide-ranging Random Show episode, recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose! We cover our recent Zen meditation retreat with Henry Shukman at Mountain Cloud Z...
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The Random Show, Couch Edition! — Supplements, Hummingbirds, Cock Rings, Optimizing Mitochondria, Breathing and Balance Training, Cool Grip Strength Tools, and More (#858)
Welcome to another wide-ranging “Random Show” episode that I recorded with my close friend Kevin Rose! We cover our recent Zen meditation retreat with Henry Shukman at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in ...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman (#857)
Please enjoy this transcript of a special episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, for which I invited five long-time listener favorites to answer a simple question: What are 1–3 decisions that could drama...
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How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman (#857)
Interview with Jim Collins on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman (#857...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck (#856)
Please enjoy this transcript of my third interview with Jim Collins (jimcollins.com). Jim has published multiple international bestsellers that have sold in total more than eleven million copies wo...
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Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck (#856)
Interview with Jim Collins on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck (#856) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Fe...
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The Self-Help Trap: What 20+ Years of “Optimizing” Has Taught Me
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” — Aldous Huxley, Island It was cold out, but none of us were ...
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The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Tim Ferriss — How to Quiet the Ruminative Mind, Avoid Traps of Self-Help, and Focus in a World of Promiscuous Overcommitment (#855)
Please enjoy this transcript of a different kind of episode, where I am in the hot seat. Dan Harris (@danharris) interviewed me for his show, the 10% Happier with Dan Harris podcast, and I thought ...
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Tim Ferriss — How to Quiet the Ruminative Mind, Avoid Traps of Self-Help, and Focus in a World of Promiscuous Overcommitment (#855)
Interview with Tish Rabe on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast! The post Tim Ferriss — How to Quiet the Ruminative Mind, Avoid Traps of Self-Help, and Focus in a World of Promiscuous Overcommitment (#85...
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