Two of my I'm not going to call them resolutions, but themes that I want to follow this year for myself are beauty and absurdity, and they go together very nicely to do things that are beautiful or absurd that don't necessarily have any explicit end goal or point to them.
And I don't view that as a waste.
I think that a lot of breakthroughs can come from taking your eye off of the productivity track for a little bit at the very least, and focusing on that.
So what if you could spend pretty much your waking hours sitting down with some of the most elite performers across nearly every domain, from health to art, from business and investing to athletics?
Nearly, if you can think about it anywhere, somebody has risen to a level of mastery and expert performance.
Well, today's guest, Tim Ferriss, has devoted pretty much his entire adult life to doing just that.
And along the way, he's been deconstructing their processes, adding on his own awakenings and syntheses and sharing what he's learned in books, in media, in podcasts.
He's the author of a huge new book called tools of titans, and in that he actually shares so many of these lessons, so many of the conversations with the hundreds of elite level performers that he sat down with in his podcast over the last chunk of years, along with a healthy dose of stuff that he's figured out along the way.
This conversation really takes you inside Tim's personal journey.
We share a little bit of a crossover in that we were both brought up on Long island, just outside of New York, so we have a little bit of a conversation about what that was like and also how that formed him and his lens on prosperity and wealth and the choices people make around that.
So really interesting conversation.
Takes you a little bit behind the scenes of what made Tim who he is and how he thinks and where he's headed.
Hope you enjoy the conversation.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
So I think we have.
It's so funny that actually we have so many friends in common who've never actually hung out before.
We both grew up on Long island also.
Where were you?
Out in the east end?
Yeah, I grew up as a townie in the Hamptons.