#683: In Case You Missed It: June 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferriss. 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 where we press play in your podcast app, or as usual, you can head to tim.blogslashpodcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

Tim Ferriss (2:57)

First up, Simon Coronel, world champion of magic and illegally classified alien of extraordinary ability by the US government.

Simon Coronel (3:11)

When I joined Accenture, I realized I had this sort of flash forward to going, yeah, I'm young and idealistic, I'm going to join for a couple years, then quit and do something that leads me towards something, whatever, I don't know. And I just had a sudden flicker of like, wait a minute, I've heard this story, I've heard how this can go. And then you blink and you're 40 in middle management and wondering where the decades went.

And I kind of sensed, wait, that could be me. You never know who you are until you're there in the moment, until you're faced with the actual trolley lever, right? You don't know which what you'll do.

And so I went on this round-the-world pilgrimage with all my remaining savings at the time. It was the first time I came to America to see the Magic Castle, to see Vegas and all the Cirque du Soleil shows and all the stuff I'd heard of.

Tim Ferriss (3:57)

And this is before?

Simon Coronel (3:58)

This is before Accenture. This was in the monthly, because I realized it was gonna be a while before I had free time.

I was gonna go into this high-pressure corporate environment and I did it as kind of a almost creative pilgrimage to kind of, I thought it was like almost injecting inspiration into intravenously to kind of keep that fire burning.

Tim Ferriss (4:15)

Stockpile some fire.

Simon Coronel (4:17)

Exactly, hide my soul in my sock where they can't find it and drag it into the corporate drudgery. That was sort of the mindset at the time.

And I think that was good because I did have a sense I wanted to do something, but I didn't know what or when. And so at Accenture, while I was there and earning a, you know, okay salary, I still lived pretty frugally and I stockpiled savings. I deliberately didn't buy a car, even though I could have afforded one, and instead I spent the money on trips to the US to keep getting inspired and connecting and everything and building savings. I didn't live extravagantly because I kind of had a sense whatever's next, I don't know what's next, but it's going to be good to have a stockpile of savings. And then I realized that the phrase I wrote once in a diary entry was fear and enthusiasm battled and fear kept winning. I'm like, I want to leave and do something cool and do the thing and go full magic or something, but ah, it's scary, I don't feel ready. And then finally, after sort of three more, I was at the company for five years. And after three years longer than I intended to be, just out of fear and out of the golden handcuffs and the stability, and one day finally, some pieces clicked together in my head. There was an actual moment where I realized I'd read an article by a palliative care nurse about her observations on people's end of life regrets. And the number one, as is well documented, is that they never tried the thing. They didn't try the thing, always wandered, never found out. And I realized, yeah, I don't want to die that way. I want to know, even if it fails, at least you know. So I was like, okay, number one, I have to try the thing.