#706: In Case You Missed It: October 2023 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

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Hello, boys and girls. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris 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.blogslashpodcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

SPEAKER_3 (2:57)

First up, Arnold Schwarzenegger, legendary bodybuilder, actor, businessman, philanthropist, and 38th governor of California, and bestselling author of Be Useful, Seven Tools for Life.

Tim Ferriss (3:17)

So let's talk about one of the rules.

Never think small. You seem like the walking archetype of not thinking small. You've lived multiple lifetimes compared to most people. How would you suggest people think of never think small, or what stories come to mind that from your life exemplify that?

Arnold Schwarzenegger (3:36)

Just the very beginning. I mean, for me to go and say, I want to compete in the Junior Mr. Europe competition rather than just in the Mr. Austria competition. I trained just as hard as everyone else in the gym. Their goal was just smaller. They said, I want to be Mr. Austria. And I said, I want to be Mr. Europe. So I'm going to start with Mr. Junior, Junior Mr. Europe, the best-built man of Europe. I'm going to go to this competition. And I was thinking bigger, and I was training as hard as they were. Everything was the same. But then when I won that competition, because I had a very clear vision, that's what I want to win, that immediately launched me into getting a job, become a trainer in Munich in a bodybuilding gymnasium. Now imagine how in heaven is that? You're a young bodybuilder, you're 18 years old, you just won your first international competition, you win some local competitions in Austria, you win some powerlifting competitions, some weightlifting competitions, but now you're a junior Mr. Europe, and you have this trophy, and now you're getting a job to train in the second biggest gym in Munich.

So that was like absolute heaven. So with 19, I started training, become the trainer in the gym. So now I had the opportunity to train day and night. When I wake up because I was sleeping in the gym, I was waking up and I was training, I was taking a nap in the afternoon, I was training before going to sleep at night after dinner. I was training day and night.