#688: In Case You Missed It: July 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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SPEAKER_3 (1:48)

Can I ask you a personal question?

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_3 (2:58)

First up, Richard Koch, entrepreneur, investor, and author of the books, The 80-20 Principle and Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It.

Richard Koch (3:14)

Now, I'm writing a book called 80-20 Beliefs.

And in order to do that, I've interviewed 50 people that I know very well and who I trust to tell me the truth and they trust to tell me some of the intimate things about their life, particularly what went wrong.

And I asked them two questions, very simple questions. One is, is there any belief that has really made a big difference in your life that at any stage you have changed? So you used to believe X and now you believe Y.

And 90% of the people, 9 out of 10 people, and that's a very small sample, but it's an extraordinary coincidence if they're all saying this and it's not quite true generally, say that they have at some stage changed an important belief. And a belief, I'm not talking about something which is an academic belief, you know, where you might believe that one politician is better than another or you might believe in green values or you might not. I'm talking about belief that has made a big difference in your own life.

And why has it made a big difference in your own life? Well, it's because you've acted in a certain way and that's generated certain results.

So I ask people, what belief have you changed? And very often that, in fact, almost invariably triggers a saying that I actually believe something which was not in my own interest and I call that a toxic belief.

For example, a friend of mine who's about 60 years old, she looks a lot younger, we'll call her Sally, shall we? Sally had quite a nice life. She moved from England, which is, you know, it's cold and rainy and horrible, to South Africa, which, you know, is sunny and very nice, to Cape Town, actually, which is the nicest place in South Africa unless you happen to want to track wild animals. It's good for almost everything else. It's got wonderful beaches, it's got mountains, it's got very nice food, and it's quite cheap as well. So, you know, it's a good idea to go to Cape Town if you want. It's slightly dangerous now, but that's another matter. Anyway, she had a very nice life until the last five years. And in the last five years, catastrophe struck. Her husband was diagnosed in the very early stages of having Alzheimer's disease.