#68: Lazy: A Manifesto (15 Min)

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Hello ladies and germs, this is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show. I'm out and about in Santa Monica that explains the noise, the music, the hubbub. It is a sunny day and I am enjoying the sun. Taking a pause, a brief break from the hustle and bustle. And that is what this episode is about. I'm going to share with you a chapter and it is a chapter called Lazy, A Manifesto, which is from a book called We Learn Nothing from Tim Kreider, K-R-E-I-D-E-R, who is a fantastic cartoonist.

And We Learn Nothing is the latest and greatest book in the Tim Ferris Book Club. So please check it out, audible.com forward slash Tim's Books. That's audible.com forward slash Tim's Books.

We Learn Nothing is one of the few books that has made me laugh so maniacally and so consistently in airports, in trains, planes, and automobiles that people stare at me like I'm a complete lunatic about to go postal. It is a hilarious, hilarious book, but it's more than hilarious.

As Judd Apatow would say, it is heartbreaking, brutal, and hilarious. The way he puts it is, Tim Kreider can do in a few pages what I need several hours of screen time and tens of millions to accomplish. And he does it better. Come to think of it, I'd rather not do a blurb. I'm beginning to feel bad about myself. But really what Tim does is he turns his funny and brutally honest eyes to the dark truths of the human condition, asking some very big questions. What if you survive a brush with death and it doesn't change you, for instance? Why do we fall in love with people we don't even like? How do you react when someone you've known for years unexpectedly changes genders?