Three Life Commandments, 4-Hour Workweek Exercises I Still Use, The Art and Joy of Inefficiency, Stoicism Revisited, and Much More

Welcome again to another intermediate medium, with one of my favorite formats: the good questions and answers to the old one.

I answer questions sent by the small group but of the test readers of my next The non -book. The community is closed for new members, since we have the correct number of people now, but I hope to expand it potentially once the book comes out.

This episode explores everything, from the nostalgia of childhood and outdoor activities, because sharing with future children to what my personal uniforms, highly comfortable and worship might seem that I was once so inclined, I am. We also cover how I work with AI, stoicism, tools The 4 -hour work week That still uses, and much, much more.

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Tim’s three commandments

1. The movement is medicine.
2. To save yourself, help outside the self.
3. Request what you want more/less.

Central practices of The 4 -hour work week

• 80/20 (Pareto principle): focusing on 20% of activities that produce 80% of their results.
• Parkinson’s law: work expands to fill the available time, so it establishes adjusted deadlines to force efficiency.
• Fear configuration: Define its scenarios of cases of sausages in detail to realize that most liberations are exaggerated.
• Definition: clearly specific what you want from life before optimizing how to obtain it.
• Elimination: Say no to anything that does not serve your defined goals.
• Automation: Create systems that work without their constant participation.

Books and other media

• Consciousness: the dangers and opportunities of reality By Anthony de Mello
• Midnight’s Children: a novel By Salman Rushdie
• Meditation By Marcus aurelius
• I don’t want to talk about that: overcome the secret legacy of male depression By real terry
• Run to the mystery: the adventure of an unconventional life By Tenzin Priyadarshi and Zara Houshmand
• Golden By rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Geatori
• Los Angeles calling the tavern for: thirty poems by Hafez By Hafez, translated by Robert Bly and Leonard Lewisohn
• Brotherhood of the Abyss of Screams: My life with Terence McKenna By Dennis McKenna
• Trickster does this world: mischief, myth and art By Lewis Hyde
• Brain energy: a revolutionary advance to understand mental health, and improve the treatment of anxiety, depression, TOC, PTSD and more By Christopher Palmer
• The endless story By Michael Ende
• The 4-hour work week: Escape 9-5, lives anywhere and joins the new rich By Timothy Ferriss
• “Slow dance” By David Weatherford
• The only thing: the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results By Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
• Mad Max
• The endless story (Movie)
• Arcane
• Within the study of actors

Concepts

• Stoicism: an ancient Greek and Roman philosophy that teaches virtue, wisdom and emotional resistance through the acceptance of what you I can’t Control while focusing your efforts on what can Control.
• Mezcal: A smoked Mexican distilled spirit made of the agave plant. Delicious, but difficult to justify $ 72 per glass without prior notice.
• Sufism: the mystical dimension of Islam that emphasizes the direct personal experience of the divine.
• Epicureism: an ancient Greek philosophy that advocates pleasure and avoids pain as the path to happiness, emphasizing simple pleasures, friendship and freedom of anxiety.
• The nothing (of the endless history): a destructive force that consumes imagination and hope, which represents despair and loss of astonishment.
• Vibos coding: Programming based on intuition and sensation instead of strict methodology or documentation.
• Metabolic psychiatry: treatment approach watching mental health disorders such as metabolic dysfunction in the brain.
• Ketogenic diet: High food plan in fat and low carbohydrates that forces the body to burn fuel fat instead of glucose.
• Electroceutical / TMS accelerated: medical devices that use electrical stimulation to treat conditions, with TMS aimed at magnetically specific brain regions.
• Somatic exercises: movement practices that focus on internal physical sensations to release tension and trauma stored in the body.
• Kundalini activation: spiritual practice destined to awaken latent energy that is believed to reside at the base of the spine.
• “The work” of Byron Katie and the changes: the self -register method by questioning stressful thoughts through four questions, then reversed the beliefs to find opposite perspectives.

Software, applications and tools

• Scrivener: My favorite tool to organize large writing projects.
• Google Gemini AI: Assistant to “personal, proactive and powerful” by Google.
• The road: Henry Shukman’s meditation training application.

People

Show notes

• [00:00:00] Begin.
• [00:04:44] Instruct nostalgia in future children.
• [00:06:29] Secret suspicions about success.
• [00:09:50] Comfortable clothes and commandments for my new worship Religion.
• [00:13:20] Base establishment for large projects.
• [00:15:12] The purpose of me No book Prior view community.
• [00:15:45] How I use and No Use AI.
• [00:18:56] My own success: because or strategies or although Issue?
• [00:19:25] Optimization of efficiency against unknown variables.
• [00:21:12] Why we should all learn to live offline.
• [00:22:35] Excellent sources of Sufism.
• [00:23:21] How an episode of anticipated podcast that will be good can go to bathe.
• [00:26:31] When inefficiency is the optimal choice.
• [00:31:27] Help instead of hurting our friends addicted to work.
• [00:33:42] The right time to announce a new project.
• [00:37:09] Establishment of association parameters.
• [00:39:02] Spiritual speculations.
• [00:41:24] Using today’s advantages to build tomorrow’s applications.
• [00:43:23] Prevent the capture of the audience from making a cartoon.
• [00:46:18] Legends of Varlata vs. The Legend of Cockpunch.
• [00:49:28] Easter egg hunting in IPS.
• [00:49:51] Coyote curiosity.
• [00:53:32] 4 -hour work week Tools that still use regularly.
• [00:55:14] A favorite memory with the best friends of my childhood.
• [00:55:48] A sequel to the movie that would finance.
• [00:56:41] It goes (no) I will sell No Book before your time.
• [01:01:37] Arc stimming targets.
• [01:02:13] Inspiration ships, advertising fences and tchotchkes.
• [01:04:43] Does the study of stoicism risk opaque positive emotions?
• [01:07:29] What focuses on my Saisei Foundation late.
• [01:13:33] Kundalini activation caution.
• [01:14:17] Molly’s ideal journey with me.
• [01:14:42] Separation thoughts.

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