#631: In Case You Missed It: September 2022 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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SPEAKER_2 (1:44)

At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.

Tim Ferriss (2:07)

Hello, boys and girls. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers of all different types to tease out the routines, habits, and so on that you can apply to your own life.

This is a special In-Between episode, which serves as a recap of the episodes from the last month. It features a short clip from each conversation in one place so you can jump around, get a feel for both the episode and the guest, and then you can always dig deeper by going to one of those episodes. View this episode as a buffet to whet your appetite. It's a lot of fun. We had fun putting it together. And for the full list of the guests featured today, see the episode's description probably right below wherever you press play in your podcast app.

Or as usual, you can head to tim.blog.com/podcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

SPEAKER_4 (2:58)

First up, bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté, highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics that includes addiction, stress and childhood development. His new book is The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture.

Tim Ferriss (3:22)

Let me come back to The Rage for a second, because I would love to get your advice, or at least hear of some of your learnings over the last decades. Because I recall from our first conversation that in your 40s, you're a successful doctor, you're a driven workaholic, you had challenges in your marriage, your kids were, at least based on my notes, afraid of you at points because of your rages.

What have you learned about rage and anger? How do you relate to it or metabolize it? And I ask as someone who has a long history of running on anger as maybe a corrosive fuel of sorts. So I would love to just hear you expand on that in any way that makes sense.

Gabor Maté (4:13)

Sure. So there was a great neuroscientist, his name was Yak Panksepp, P-A-N-K-S-E-P-P, who tragically died a few years ago of cancer. And he distinguished a number of brain systems that we share with other mammals. They include care, he capitalized these. So C-A-R-E, care, then something he calls grief and panic, then fear, lust, seeking, play and rage. These are all brain systems that we have. They're all necessary for mammalian life. They're all necessary. By rage he means the anger that arises when our boundaries are being transgressed.

If I were to infringe on your boundaries, either physically or emotionally, the healthy response for you is to mount an anger response. No, get out.

Stay away. That's healthy.