#723: In Case You Missed It: January 2024 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Chris Beresford-Hill (1:44)

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

SPEAKER_3 (1:48)

Can I ask you a personal question?

Tim Ferriss (2:07)

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 and get a feel for both the episode and the guest. 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. 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.blog.com/podcast and find all the details there. Please enjoy.

SPEAKER_3 (2:57)

First up, Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and Effortless, Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most.

Tim Ferriss (3:14)

So you have that farewell with your daughter, sending her off to Manaus, which I've always wanted to visit, but that's a separate story. So where do you go from there? Because people have these realizations. Maybe they go, I have no idea. They go on a rafting trip with friends, and they think to themselves, oh my God, this was so nourishing. I deepened my relationships with three of my most cherished friends, and I need to do more of this. But then it like sand through the fingers, slips away as they reenter their daily lives. And that's kind of it. Things get busy, things get crowded out. So what do you do, or what did you do, or what are you doing after you have that realization?

Greg McKeown (3:54)

Let me answer this in a conceptual way first of all. I have all sorts of limitations that make focus challenging, that make prioritization challenging, that make relationships challenging. And all of us have our own mix of literally, our DNA can predispose us to various weaknesses. And so, the key for me seems to have been I have to build, I mean, the word gets overused, I build a system that's equal to that challenge. And so, I have like a paper planner that I built and designed myself and keep adapting all the time. As soon as I learn, oh, that's kind of a weakness for me. I build something in and oh, that's a tendency where I make trade-offs that not pleased with later. I build something in so that it acts on me.