#206: Testing the "Impossible": 17 Questions That Changed My Life

Tim Ferriss (0:08)

Now is the appropriate time.

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Whether those are your favorite books, what they do in the first 60 minutes, after they wake up, whatever. So this episode is a little bit different. Many of you have been asking me about an audiobook version of Tools of Titans, my new book, which is a compilation of all these habits and routines and so on. About 200 plus folks in the book. There is no audiobook or audible version coming soon because I'm going to be doing something very, very fun and interesting with all of that audio, but it takes some time. So it's gonna take at least a few months, but many, many of you have asked for audio. So I'm gonna give you a sample. And in fact, I'm gonna give you a chapter that is in the book that you've never seen before, never heard before. And there's a lot of that. In Tools of Titans, I'd say about, let's say 60% is the distilled wisdom and tactics and so on from 10,000 plus transcripts from the podcast, interviewing all these folks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Foxx, General Stanley McChrystal, special ops commanders and so on. And 40% is brand new. New tips from old guests, new guests per se that you haven't met before, like Jack Dorsey, for instance, and a lot of new chapters for me. So this is one of them. This is called testing the impossible, impossibles in quotation marks, 17 questions that changed my life. So let's jump into it and we'll have some fun with it.