Greetings, friend!
Welcome to tim.blog, my home on the interwebs. My name is Tim Ferriss, and I am an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans. I am the host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has more than one billion downloads. I also publish 5-Bullet Friday, a free, weekly email that describes the five coolest things I’ve found or explored that week. It goes out to a few million people and takes just a few minutes to read. You can find more of my bio here.
Since this blog has been ongoing for more than a decade, I created this page as a helpful place for new visitors to discover some of the most popular content.
It’s easier than wandering through 1,000+ posts!
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CONTENTS
- Practical Philosophy
- Fitness & Health
- Productivity
- Business & Entrepreneurship
- Language Learning
- Book Recommendations
- General Learning
- Travel
- Popular Videos from My YouTube Channel
- Popular Presentations & Interviews on YouTube
- Stay in Touch
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”)
Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life
Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month
Why You Need a “Deloading” Phase in Life
How to Say “No” When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation”)
Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide
On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
Forget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead
How to Use Philosophy as a Personal Operating System: From Seneca to Musashi
Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs
The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades
How to Cure Anxiety — One Workaholic’s Story, Six Techniques That Work
Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment
The 30-Day Challenge: No Booze, No Masturbating (NOBNOM)
FITNESS & HEALTH
The Morning Cocktail I Drink Instead Of Coffee
5 Morning Rituals That Help Me Win the Day
From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
The Science of Fat-Loss: Why a Calorie Isn’t Always a Calorie
How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
The Perfect Posterior: Kettlebell Swings and Cheap Alternatives
How to Keep Feces Out of Your Bloodstream (or “Lose 10 Pounds in 14 Days”)
Pavel: 80/20 Powerlifting and How to Add 110+ Pounds to Your Lifts
PRODUCTIVITY
“Productivity” Tricks for the Neurotic, Manic-Depressive, and Crazy (Like Me)
The Psychology of Automation: Building a Bulletproof Personal-Finance System
Public Speaking — How I Prepare Every Time
The Not-To-Do List: 9 Habits to Stop Now
What My Morning Journal Looks Like
BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Ideal Lifestyle Costing (Incl. Monthly Expense Calculator, Dreamlining Calculators, and Worksheet)
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA (I)
How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA (II)
How I Built a #1-Ranked Podcast With 60M+ Downloads
The Margin Manifesto: 11 Tenets for Reaching (or Doubling) Profitability in 3 Months
How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples: AppSumo, Mint, Chihuahuas)
How to Gather 100,000 Emails in One Week (Includes Successful Templates, Code, Everything You Need)
Real-World Blueprint for a $5-Million Week
Hacking Kickstarter: How to Raise $100,000 in 10 Days
LANGUAGE LEARNING
12 Rules for Learning Foreign Languages in Record Time — The Only Post You’ll Ever Need
How to Learn (But Not Master) Any Language in 1 Hour
How to Learn Any Language in Record Time and Never Forget It
How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
The Best Books and Articles I Read in 2019
My Favorite and Most Impactful Reads of 2020
My Favorite and Most Impactful Reads of 2021
Books I’ve Loved — Tim’s Four Must-Read Books
You Are What You Read: 14 Thought Leaders Share Their Bookshelves
Tribe of Mentors — Recommended Books from Mentors and Top Books from Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose Discuss Their Top 5 Must-Read Books
The Top 10 Fiction Books for Non-Fiction Addicts
The Unusual Books That Shaped 50+ Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies
GENERAL LEARNING
How to Take Notes Like an Alpha-Geek
Ten Lessons I Learned While Teaching Myself to Code
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster in 20 Minutes
Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too
TRAVEL
How to Never Check Luggage Again
How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules
How to Be Jason Bourne: Multiple Passports, Swiss Banking, and Crossing Borders
How to Travel to Exotic, Expensive Cities on $50 a Day
POPULAR VIDEOS FROM MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL
How I Journal and Take Notes
How to Remember What You Read
How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking
Should You Specialize or Be a Generalist?
Life Is Short: How to Add a Sense of Urgency
How to Use Your Phone… So That It Doesn’t Use You
My Daily Practices and Habits to Fight Depression
Breakfast Routine with Tim Ferriss
Evening Routine with Tim Ferriss
How To Tie A Perfect Tie… Every Time
How To Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling
How to Cope with Feeling Unfocused or Overwhelmed
How to Start a Business or Podcast From Scratch
How to Apply Stoic Philosophy to Your Life
How to Create a Better Morning Routine
Skills to Master to be More Productive
POPULAR PRESENTATIONS & INTERVIEWS ON YOUTUBE
Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | 2nd TED talk
Tim Ferriss shares how to master any skill by deconstructing it
Smash fear, learn anything | 1st TED talk
”How to Cage the Monkey Mind” | Talks at Google
Tricks for Combatting Procrastination
Tim Ferriss on Super Learning and Pushing the Limits | Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu
Tim Ferriss Interview: How to Overcome Fear, Practice Self Love & Build a Writing Routine | MarieTV with Marie Forleo
“The 4-Hour Body” at NEXT Conference
“The 4-Hour Body” | Talks at Google
Google IO Ignite — Practical Pessimism
Tim Ferriss on Ketosis, Microbiome, Lyme Disease, and Biomarkers | Found My Fitness with Dr. Rhonda Patrick
STAY IN TOUCH
You can follow me on Twitter (1.9M+ people do), visit me on Facebook, follow me on Instagram, and subscribe on YouTube. I tend to stir the pot, and some of it is definitely NSFW.
I also invite you to sign up for “5-Bullet Friday,” my uber-popular, short bullet-point email that describes the five coolest things I’ve found or explored that week. It sometimes includes VIP treatment only for subscribers, such as exclusive content, private Q&As, invitations to events, etc. Simply click here to subscribe.
And what is The Tim Ferriss Show that I mentioned earlier? It’s one of the most popular podcasts in the world with more than 900 million downloads. It has been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three times, it is often the #1 interview podcast across all of Apple Podcasts, and it’s been ranked #1 out of 400,000+ podcasts on many occasions.
Past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Silverman, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Sia, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, Balaji Srinivasan, Dr. Michio Kaku, and many more.
In each episode, I deconstruct world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, sports, business, art, etc.) to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use. This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.
To listen to any of the past episodes for free, check out this page. You can also subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, or on your preferred platform for listening to podcasts. You can find the most popular episodes from 2021 here, from 2020 here, from 2019 here, and some earlier popular episodes here.