#599: New Insights from Sam Harris, Dr. Peter Attia, Ramit Sethi, and Elizabeth Gilbert

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show, where it is usually my job in the long-form interviews to deconstruct world-class performers of all different types to tease out the routines, habits, favorite books, et cetera, that you can apply to your own lives.

This episode is gonna be something different. It's an experimental format that I'm super excited about. I've been thinking about it for a long time, and it really scratches an itch that I've had for years. I'm asked all the time, what are your favorite podcasts to listen to? And the fact of the matter is, I'm so busy with this podcast that I don't always get to listen to what I want to listen to, right? There's so many great podcasts out there, even when they are by some of my closest friends.

So my answer to this predicament was to ask them to send me one of their top segments each from their podcast that I can listen to, and just as important, also share with you, my dear listeners. So my team edited these together, and here we are. This episode is a compilation of 15 to 30 minute clips from some of the best podcasters in the world, and certainly some of my favorites. And I told them that these segments have to be valuable as standalones. So you will get value from them. At the beginning of each clip, you'll hear an intro from the host, where to find their work and podcast and so on. At the end, I'll also share one of my favorite clips from an episode of this podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, from one of the long form interviews.

You will notice that the first host is Sam Harris, and he actually includes some audio from his app, The Waking Up App, which I asked for, and I put him first very, very deliberately because I want to give you all some of my favorite meditations that you could listen to repeatedly, and to use this episode basically as a boot up mechanism or a reboot mechanism when you're feeling stressed or immersed in the chaos or just need some perspective. So that is why Sam is first. So you can view this episode as a buffet. I strongly suggest you check out the shows included.

And if you like my podcast, you will very likely enjoy the featured shows in this episode. For a full list of the guests featured today, see the episode's description, or as usual, head to tim.blogslashpodcast for all the details. And before you go, please let me know what you think of this episode. What do you think of this format?

What can we do to improve, make it even better?

Let me know on Twitter, at T.Ferris, that's T-F-E-R-R-I-S-S. And if you can, please cc at Team Tim Ferris, cause that will also notify my team who will want to keep an eye on these things. Whether we continue this series or not depends on you. Of course, I'm still gonna do the long form interviews. That's gonna be the meat and potatoes of this podcast, but I want to experiment with different formats because it is fun and I need to keep this thing fun fun for me. Just one quick note regarding the Peter Attia segment. Peter uses several acronyms and here are the definitions or this is what they mean. So ASCVD is atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. So just think of it simply as cardiovascular disease. TRF, time restricted feeding, ALM, appendicular lean mass, ALMI, appendicular lean mass index, and BFR, blood flow restriction. The most important of these to know for this particular segment are the cardiovascular disease. So if you hear CVD, cardiovascular disease, then time restricted feeding, TRF and blood flow restriction, BFR.

All that said, please enjoy.

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