Motivation Daily by Motiversity - Tim Ferriss's Ultimate Advice Will Leave You SPEECHLESS

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

Tim Ferriss, best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, entrepreneur, investor, and podcaster, delivers one of the best motivational speeches you will ever hear. Special thanks to Tom Bilyeu: http://bit.ly/ImpactQuotesSpeaker:Tim FerrissGet Tim Ferriss's bestselling booksThe 4-Hour Workweek: https://amzn.to/34LmGivTools of Titans: https://amzn.to/3tyPp4HTribe of Mentors: https://amzn.to/3qyZsVrDisclaimer: The links above are Amazon affiliate links, if you use the links we receive a small commission, thank you for your support!Music:Epidemic Sound Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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that you've imposed on yourself because your expectations are too high. And he's like, just lower your standards. Lower your standards till you get started. In terms of patterns, we were talking about some of the things I've spotted. Meditation or journaling are performed by close to 100%.

the people that I interviewed. What can I learn from the people I hate the most? Now, this does two things. It forces you to separate your morality from your search for effectiveness. It also helps you to develop some degree of empathy. And those two are very powerful. So what can I learn from the people I hate most?

It is a very, very useful practice. So I'll journal on that very often. Are you being busy or are you being productive? What makes you angry was one of the key pieces of advice that I was given by a writer named Poe Bronson. When I asked him, what do you do when you have writer's block? He said, what makes you angry? We're just write that. Happy write your faults.

And of course there are weaknesses you should address, but then there are flaws that can be converted into strengths. So I think that's another way to catalyze creativity or just creating anything. is to realize that some of your biggest flaws may in fact be assets. This is Derek's recommendation to his younger self, and really to any 20 or 30 something, but it applies to everybody, which is, in effect, you can do almost everything you want in life, but you can't do it at the same time. And if you can just dedicate yourself to one thing for even a year,

and then the next thing, for a year, you can do those 10 things. He said, when I start to get really stressed out, I just stop. Because I realize 95% is enough for getting almost all of the results that I want and making it sustainable. The impact that I want to have on the world right now would be creating a benevolent army of super learners who test the impossibles. Are you hunting antelope or are you hunting field mice? And the story he would tell is that of a lion in the Serengeti. He's like, if you're always chasing field mice as a lion, you'll get a snack. You might even survive, but you might end up starving because you're getting these little scooby snacks.

That's not his words, mine, that make you feel good and give you the illusion of accomplishing something real. And for me, that's translated into are you being busy or are you being productive? Yes. So copyright your faults. This is from Dan Carlin. But copyrighting your faults. Dan was a radio guy before he was a podcast guy. And he was constantly getting criticized because he would go into the red.

He would shout and he was really loud and he'd go up and you'd peek and drive all the audio people crazy. And then you'd get really low and whisper. And they're just like, dude, come on, you're killing me here. Making my job really hard. And his supervisor, supervisors at the time they're like, look, kid, what people want is this like deep, dignified baritone voice for the radio. I don't have a voice for radio, so I can't do it. Later on, he had such a distinctive voice that people started complimenting him.

And he's like, okay. So now this so-called weakness that he was unable to fix, so he didn't fix it. Not only that, but he avoided fixing it by having the interest. The guys would be like, please welcome or please enjoy it. Dan Carlin, and he'd say, he shouts, he whispers or something like that. He had the intro guy do a caveat so that he didn't have to change his personal style, which later then became this huge asset. And his term is copyright your fault.

He's like, now if someone imitates me, he's like, that's my jam. He's like, that's my schick. And so that could be a question you ask, right? Right? How might some of my biggest weaknesses be strengths or assets? I think that's a very useful question to journal on, and which I, which I tend to do just about every morning is freehand journaling and what are called morning pages. But which, okay, we're talking about creativity, morning pages we should talk about. Julia Cameron describes them as spiritual windshield wipers. And the way I would translate that is when you do morning pages, and you might just be

complaining, like your lesser self, your worst self coming out on pages, just bitching and moaning, is you get that out of your system for the day. So you don't have it ricocheting around your head like a stray bullet for the rest of your waking hours interrupting everything else. You just trap it, you freeze it on paper. And that practice has been tremendously liberating, not only from a well-being standpoint, but from just freeing up my CPU so that I can focus on things that are more important. Because if I have all that, like, God, that guy in the dad and the dad, like I should have said, like all that bouncing around all day, it's like you have antivirus software, just slowing down. It's just slow.

It's like, yeah, because you're thinking about these stupid grudges that you're holding against people for trivial bullshit. Like, who cares if the guy at Starbucks bought the last thing of cashies, you idiot? That's deeply troubled. Yeah, like, Ferris pulled together. So if I get it on paper, though, I'm like, okay, I've dealt with that. Now, in the book, you encourage people to bounce around. What's one thing that you hope nobody skips?

So the book's broken into three sections. You have Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, which is a nod to Ben Franklin. I mean, they're all interdependent, right? Because they're sort of the three legs of the stool, healthy, wealthy, and wise. So I do think you need all three. So Derek Sivers is this, like, programmer monk,

philosopher-king startup entrepreneur, who started CD Baby, which was the largest marketplace for independent musicians at the time, sold it for, I think, $24 million. But he and Seth Godin, I think, are two examples of people who are very good at genuinely, in real life, following contrarian rules that work exceptionally well. So Derek has a couple of one-liners that I think are really fantastic. I'll give you a few. is if more information were the answer, we'd all be billionaires with six-pack apps.

That's a good one. Just absorbing, not even absorbing, just reading and watching and listening to more isn't enough. You have to apply it. You have to use incentives. You have to have rewards and punishments set for yourself so you actually get things done, timelines, et cetera. So that's one.

Another one is, don't be a donkey. And that, so he says that to himself all the time. Like, don't be a donkey, don't be a donkey. And the reason is there's a, I want to say, it might be a philosopher's paradox, but I don't think it is. I think it's just a parable about Buridan's ass. So it's about a donkey who is thirsty and hungry,

and there's water on one side, a few feet away, and hay on the other. And he can't decide whether to do the hay first, the hay first, or the water. the hay or the water, and he dies of thirst at the end of it. He couldn't do them sequentially. So this is Derek's recommendation to his younger self, and really to any 20 or 30 something,

but it applies to everybody, which is, in effect, you can do almost everything you want in life, but you can't do it at the same time. And if you can just dedicate yourself to one thing for even a year, and then the next thing, for a year, you can do those 10 things. But if you try to do all ten at once, you're going to be bird in his ass. Should I do this? Should I do this? Or should I focus on this? Should I focus on this?

So don't be a donkey.