**The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts Episode 100: Brené Brown****Show notes and links at tim.blog/podcast** Tim Ferriss: Hello, my friends. You muscular, little Oompah Loompahs. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. My name is Tim Ferris. My job is to deconstruct world-class performers, people who are the best at what they do and …
Adam Grant — The Man Who Does Everything (#399). Adam is an expert in how we can find motivation and meaning, and lead more generous and creative lives. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers.
“When you feel like you’re not productive, it’s not necessarily because you’re lazy or because you have bad habits, it’s because you’re not working on the right projects and you haven’t found the ones that are intrinsically motivating and meaningful to you.” — Adam Grant Adam Grant (@AdamMGrant) is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he …
Q&A with Tim — On Happiness, Dating, Depressive Episodes, and Much More (#390)
Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different episode. As many …
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Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention (#387)
“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix.” — Chuck Palahniuk Tristan Harris …
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Chip Conley — Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal (#374)
“The question would be: ‘What mastery can you offer?’ So have a friend of yours ask that question of you five times, and you’ll be sort of surprised at, by the fifth time you get asked that question, and you’ve had to come up with four other answers before that, what kind of revelation you …
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Adam Savage on Great Tools, Great Projects, and Great Lessons (#370)
“A true creator knows that you follow the thing to where it’s going, not to where you think it ought to go.” — Adam Savage Adam Savage (TW: @donttrythis IG: @therealadamsavage FB: therealadamsavage) has spent his life gathering skills that allow him to take what’s in his brain and make it real. He’s built everything from ancient Buddhas and futuristic …
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