#779: In Case You Missed It: October 2024 Recap of "The Tim Ferriss Show"

Tim Ferriss (0:00)

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Bruce Greyson (1:42)

Optimal minimum.

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, 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.blog/podcast and find all the details there.

Bruce Greyson (2:53)

Please enjoy.

SPEAKER_3 (2:54)

First up, John Battiste, an Academy Award-winning and five-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and composer. His new album, Beethoven Blues, which showcases Battiste's interpretations of Beethoven's iconic works, is out now. You can find John on Instagram and Twitter at JohnBattiste.

Tim Ferriss (3:18)

What other mantras can you share?

Jon Batiste (3:21)

Oh man, this is deep. You going in.

Tim Ferriss (3:23)

I'm going in. I'm going in.

Jon Batiste (3:25)

Scuba gear intact. Tim. Yeah, you know.

Tim Ferriss (3:30)

Because I believe in the power of mantras.

Jon Batiste (3:33)

Oh, you.

Tim Ferriss (3:33)

I do. In meditation, in repetition, the ability to, in a sense, end up with the mind of no mind to cleanse the palate. I mean, there's so many different ways you can use mantras also, which is why this is as deeply interesting to me. It can be a concentration practice. It can be sort of an erasing practice to regain some equilibrium. There's so many different ways to use repetition. Could be drumming too. It doesn't have to be, could be instrumental. There are so many different ways that you can enter unusual, uncommon states using repetition. So I'm very, very interested in this, which is why I'm asking.

Jon Batiste (4:16)

Yes, for sure. So two of the ones that I, not for stage, but just more for crisis that I go to is be still and know, which is from the Bible, be still and know that I am God. It is this idea that I'll give you a practice. So be still and know that I am God, be still and know that I am, be still and know that I, be still and know that, be still and know, be still, be. Just this idea, I've sat with that and each phrase has a different meaning, even be still and then breath.

Or room tone, there's messages in that space, there's messages in the crevice. So I've done that and sat in that, and it's changed my entire perspective on a crisis or something that I felt perhaps I was wronged or perhaps, there's so many opportunities for us in this life to transmutate darkness into light or even darkness into perspective. Another one is Thy will be done, which is one of surrender. Now, we believe there's a divine power. There's however you name it, whatever your relationship to it is. We've, for the most part, had an experience. There's something beyond explanation. The universe is carrying us in some way. Thy will be done is trusting that there's a divine logic to it all. When there's nothing that you can do, thy will be done, thy will be done, thy will be done. Because the belief of this divine logic allows for you to understand that there's a path and you are accounted for in that path. You are accounted for. There's so much that is allowed for you to be, the culmination of so many things has led to you and there will never be another you. You're the only one. That specificity alone is something that comes to me when I'm in that, that will be done. It's a revelation of so many other things, which is also allowing for the right thing to occur and for me to be accepting of it versus for me to control it without knowledge of what the true right thing is. So there's so much that you have to cleanse yourself of from believing or from holding on to, that's not actually connected to the best outcome, but you can't always know that, especially in crisis.