#319: How to Succeed in High-Stress Situations

Tim Ferriss (0:24)

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Hello, boys and girls, and welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show. This is Tim Ferris. And each and every episode, it is typically my job to deconstruct world-class performers in long-form interviews, whether they come from the worlds of military, entertainment, sports, investing, business or otherwise. This episode is going to be a special intervention slash helping hand, as much for me as anyone else, from the outside looking in the last two to four weeks have been disaster after disaster for me. I had a very unexpected and sad death in the family.

Several large business deals that were in process for six plus months fell apart at the last minute.

And the list just goes on and on and on. I may, in fact, have to sue someone for breach of contract, which I'm always loath to do.

And it's been high stress, it has been high stress. And the question then is, how does one respond when faced with the unpredictable?

One of the tools is a book. And there are several books that I've thought about over and over again during this period.

One of them is The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday. You can find them on Twitter, at Ryan Holiday.