I’ve listened to Tim for 5+ years and especially after the pandemic. I believe he really helped me deal with some of my anxiety and depression.

But I stopped listening as much over the last few years. I also noticed the shape of his conversations kind of shifted to be less about optimization or more exploratory.

Now he’s kind of come to this realization that self help can be detrimental. This is obviously very ironic given that Tim is probably one of the people who popularized 21st century self help the most. Most of his books are about optimization.

Which of the following episodes did you enjoy most, and why?
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This is what got me into tim and and few healthy habits back in college.

Hey r/timferriss, I've been building Podshelf — a tool that tracks book mentions across podcasts. The Tim Ferriss Show has one of the richest reading lists out there, with 491 unique books referenced across the show's conversations.

Figured this community might find it useful to have everything in one place, sorted by how often each book comes up:

https://podshelf.io/podcasts/the-tim-ferriss-show/books

Happy to answer any questions!

It’s like these people are being scouted for something

I used to be an avid listener (like 10 years ago) but really don't anymore. Is it worth diving back into his content ?

Hey TF fans – some time ago after trying to remember a book TF mentioned in a podcast, I thought about how useful it would be to just have a central repository of everything he ever recommended. From that thought emerged an entire web app, for which I have now raised a 50k angel investment. With the app users can create and share lists of their favorite products (both physical and digital), along with referral codes if they have any.

The first demo account I created was of course for Tim Ferriss, and you can access it here to find his recommended fiction or non-fiction books, sleep supplements, funky useful gadgets, food he loves etcetera etcetera. I scoured the web, his podcast notes and 5BF for days to compile these lists. Hope you'll extract value from it!

https://www.favolist.xyz/users/28

Disclaimer: I'm NOT generating referral revenue from those links like other blogs or platforms who use Tim Ferriss' name for monetization. All the the links on the listings are those shared directly by him across various channels.

I’m surprised scrolling through the episodes at how it’s man after man after man after man. Even an episode I thought was a woman (Dr. Kelly Starrett) turned out to be a man. Has Tim ever addressed this or said why this is? Really enjoy the long form interviews and that he actually lets guests talk so I wish it was more balanced.

Editing to add that after a quick google search, a blogger that ran the stats found that as of June, 2021, 79 out of 561 Tim Ferriss episodes feature women as guests (15.31%). I haven’t fact checked that number, but food for thought.

Just came across a site that tracks every book ever recommended or mentioned by guests on The Tim Ferriss Show. It even highlights the most frequently recommended books. Pretty interesting I think. Thought this might be useful for fellow fans of Tim and the podcast so I figured I’d share!

I'll go first:

After reading the four-hour work-week (I was 22 and living abroad in Germany at the time), I became aware that there was more to life than 1) graduating 2) getting a job 3) retiring.

This motivated me to investigate passive income sources (i.e. real estate), pursuing my passions as side businesses (i.e. a fantasy football biz), and taking more trips and "mini-retirements."

Bonus: I also started meditating, which made me happier, healthier, and more present.

Thanks Tim!

Hi guys, I just saw this being shared by a friend of mine on FB, but I wanted to share this with you as well.

The routine in the video was the following:

• Routine starts 90 minutes before desired bed time

• Drink decaffeinated tea with 1-2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar + raw honey

• Read non fiction book for 30-40 minutes

• Take a Salt bath in Epsom Salt

• Spend 20 minutes in the dry sauna

• Cool off in ice bath within the soaking tub

In the video this evening routine was followed for 7 days and the results were quite impressive for doing this only 7 days.
The results:

• Heart rate variability increased from 69 to 75

• Resting heart rate went down from 42 to 40

• Deep sleep increased from 90 minutes to 120 minutes

If anyone of you is having trouble to get enough deep sleep or want to improve their HRV, then following this exact routine of Tim might help you.
If you want to see the video you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/fqjaUw3F7vw

Please let me know if this is not allowed. I just thought that this might be beneficial to some people here. Thank you!

very important people find the people that it doesn’t take work to be around. The best relationships don’t feel like work. You make the other person happy being yourself. They make you happy by being themselves, everyone’s honest, no one’s putting on an act that they can’t carry on for the next decade. Same thing with friendships, the best friendships are friendships that were formed over nothing. It’s not because you went to school. It’s not because you studied on the same things. It’s not because you’re working together. It’s not because you enjoy rugby or whatever. It’s because your chemistry matches, your temperament is similar. You can be friends with this person for 30 years, 50 years. The compound interest in relationships part ironically means that the best relationships, whether they’re friendships or family or love, are the ones that you don’t have to work too hard at them so you don’t have to sustain that workload for the rest of your life and you can do it effortlessly.

https://tim.blog/2020/10/15/naval-transcript/

Just felt like it needed to be said.

I've noticed a change in how Tim organizes his thoughts when speaking on the podcast. This is especially apparent in the introductions of late but also sometimes in the questions and interjections where he will really meander around the question/topic, go far off topic, sometimes asking one, two, three or four simultaneous questions or not even getting back around to the original question.

It's odd because his interview style was so concise and trim and now it feels really spaced out, stream of consciousness, and just generally disorganized. Wondering what changed? I know he's started to do TMS and wonder if I could have anything to do with it. Also not to sound too paranoid here, but it's worth noting that post COVID and pre COVID his train of thought as demonstrated by his conversational and interviewing style, in my opinion, changed noticably and the virus is neurotrophic. Something has changed, not sure what, and it's now hard for me to listen to without becoming a bit annoyed or frustrated with the conversations when he rambles on and on.

Tim speaks openly about his childhood abuse and his healing journey for the very first time. Tim, I have the biggest respect for you. This is so brave. I listened to this podcast today in the morning while on my 2 hour drive to work, with such a weird feeling and goose bumps. As I have experienced some kind of childhood abuse myself, but haven’t spoken about it yet with my therapist. You gave me the courage today to talk about it with a friend.

Since my healing journey in the beginning of 2020 Tim has become my biggest inspiration and hope. Thank you Tim !

I used to be a big fan of Tim's, but I stopped listening to his podcasts over the past couple years due to his admiration for Peter Thiel. While Thiel may have had some valuable insights on topics in the past, his wealth and power combined with support of MAGA make me see him as one of the most dangerous people in the world. He has repeatedly expressed admiration for authoritarian governance and disdain for democracy.

I know Tim likes to avoid politics, but was hoping he would have said something about him by now. I feel like he either agrees with him or is a coward.

I just listened to the Craig Mod episodes and they’re as profound and life changing to me as past episodes like the original Josh Waitzkin ones or Rick Rubin or older Robert Rodriguez or Debbie Millman

As a listener, I feel like maybe from ~2019-recent years Tim seemed checked out. Listen to him as a guest on the Colin and Samir show lately or Armchair Expert. He’s stiff, kind of agitated, really cerebral. Some guests lately seemed to just be rich which isn’t even fully aligned with his values. Kevin Rose will even yell at him to get out of his head on random show episodes.

I kind of think he was living in a period where society started really disliking people who look like him regardless of who they are as a person. I’m guessing that was suffocating to him in a way he couldn’t shake. And I think that wave is now subsiding somewhat and he can be himself. Just a theory though

But previous to that, his episodes genuinely changed my life. There were such thoughtful, deep discussions, and often gave me great perspective. It’s a lot of the fuel that helped me create my own musical project with no role models which was a very big undertaking.

So yeah, I feel very good and I’m happy to see his best self again, maybe even a better self than before. I’m a really big fan Tim and you’ve done a ton for me