Q&A with Tim — Parenting Considerations, Intuition, New Hobbies, Dating, and More

[Music] first and foremost thanks everybody I really appreciate all the hosting and amazing celebrations and going on around the world it was super fun for me to be part of and to watch and to participate in so thank you very much for all of that and what I thought we would do is bounce back and forth between these questions here and I'll I'll do improv jav as improv jav improv Jazz as we go through and I'll pick some questions and then we will also do some live questions so why don't we start with some live

questions I'll hop in here and I'll answer as many questions as I can that were presubmit as well RJ from Malaga Spain believe it or not I have some ancestors from Malaga Spain one of them was killed in a bull fight so be careful with the bull fights all right if you Had to pick a topic for your podcast that I'd stick to from now on topic or theme would you pick probably reinvention of different types I think I would focus on people who have reinvented themselves instead of sticking with the tried and true Groove

people who have taken the time or the space or just the attention to step back and reexamine their assumptions reexamine the things that have worked up to this point that may not be those Things directionally that they want to continue pursuing so reinvention I think Kate and Cody how do you think about over optimization uh today many of us have the resources to enable us to spend countless percentage of our life tweaking and attempting to op optimize every little thing I would say that you want to pick very carefully what you choose to optimize as

a very dear friend of mine I won't mention him by name Because you might not like that but very top 1% of 1% in terms of performer put it to me he's like you want to be incredibly excellent the best you can be in one or two things and then for everything else it's good enough passing grade for everything else and he walks that walk and got a great family he's a great husband and father he's very good at the things he chooses to optimize and for the rest he's not worried Claudine what has brought

me a Ton of Joy or fun recently archery I've been doing a lot of archery training not sure if you can see my forearms they are all screwed up I was shooting both right and left-handed but find that incredibly uh joyful and meditative all right Joel Hello Joel our group had so much in common it was so fun everyone wants to stay connected they asked if there might be more opportunities for me to facilitate keeping us connected in the future the greatest joy that I got from The parties for the 10th anniversary and so on

was how many people came together with some shared interests or Curiosities at least who then wanted to hang out after the event people who wanted to stay connected that made me super super happy that was really The Not So secret agenda all along so that made me really happy and I'd like to explore ways that I can facilitate that without having to manage it myself Cindy has a question [ __ ] punch update please Yes I have a ton of artwork and a lot of material to share with respect to World building and frankly I've

let Perfection be the enemy of good I've wanted to present all this stuff in this high production value video with all the bells and whistles and I've been sitting on this stuff for many months now and uh I think that is my perfectionism getting in the way of Simply sharing these things so I have lots of stuff to share and I need to get on that I would say in The next few weeks doesn't need to be fancy I feel at this point Expediting is more important than optimizing delivery all right oh God worst funniest

date I've been on yeah we'll need another live chat to cover that Arena how am I today I'm doing really well uh beautiful day here it's a little warm I don't handle heat terribly well I'm going to go shoot arrows after this Q&A and hang out with Molly outside I'll have her behind the Line of fire she's a very good archery dog in that way and uh a little tired I'm not sure why I might have a fever I've been training really hard so who knows maybe there's a bug in the food or something I've

been very tired today it's unclear why cuz I got plenty of sleep um so that's how I am today but happy to be doing the Q&A this is from Andre Andy from bu say what place does Argentina occupy in my heart today and why well I have deep affection for Argentina and the RGS and I would like to get back down there honestly I recently for the first time in 20 years basically went to a Tango Festival in Austin so I bought new shoes I didn't even have shoes I haven't done Tango in ages and

I've forgotten 99% of it which is very painful for me but had a blast just had so much fun there's nothing like it so I think at some point it's possible I'll go back to Argentina and do 3 to four weeks full immersion tons Of Tango lots of steak and probably lots of malbeck at the same time uh so I would say I'm I'm very eager to get down there revisit it learn of the current events and leadership in particular in Argentina which I find very interesting and we'll go from there what type of business/

investment is the most exciting for me right now anything that is aligned I'd say and this isn't an invitation for pitches but anything that's really aligned with My the sort of ethos that I might be looking to incorporate more in my life so for instance Maui neie venison from an ecological perspective from a Founder perspective husband and wife team incredibly high integrity beautiful family beautiful people and also very good operators it's a good business but it's also doing a lot for or the sort of native ecosystem in Hawaii so that'd be an example of something

that's I feel Very aligned with even though it's not the kind of tech multiples that we would be used to in potential outcomes something I feel very good about also very involved with quite a bit of climate work and let's just call it technology intended to help with many of the extreme weather and climate challenges that we're going to continue to face top three snacks I'm eating right now yeah I mean I have Maui Nei right around The corner so the Maui Nei venison sticks and then often it's it's some type of mixed nuts minus

peanuts and let's say cans of lentils so boring but I find that very helpful there are a number of questions about AI I would say I largely feel unqualified to have strong opinions about this but if I invest and I've invested in one or two AI SP focused companies they're very Niche and they have some type of at least intermediate Term defensible mode a lot of the AI stuff that's trained on publicly available data is just going to get cloned as soon as it shows any traction and uh as some people may have noticed a

lot of stuff that was web 3 at one point those people have now pivoted into Ai and I'm I'm trying to be cautious of anything that is kind of the investment sector dour and there's still interesting things in web 3 although I think Blockchain is probably a better way to put it and they're very interesting things in AI but I like to invest in what I know where I think I have an informational advantage and I do not think I have an informational Advantage with AI question on on a few different things I'll pick two

of these on Modern dating as a public figure how do you navigate the complexities of modern da I would say slowly and very carefully what qualities do I look for in a Partner to ensure a meaningful and sustainable relationship well first and foremost I would say the the smaller the social media footprint the more comfortable I am but it also makes it very hard to find people if they're not online since it's not like I'm going out to bars and just doing cold approaches so I would say uh discretion someone who prefers a certain degree

of privacy those are those are all indicators for me and in the Positive direction for trustworthiness I recognize a lot of people live online so that's just the nature of our current day but I look for those things a demonstrated ability to do hard things over longer periods of time I want to know that life isn't always hard for someone so if they're able to focus on let's just say higher education for four years at a demanding University that doesn't automatically make them a Super Genius who's perfect For me but it shows probably they're able

to focus on on certain things that are challenging for extended periods of time same thing if they've been at jobs for at least some jobs for more than one or two years if it's constantly Lily Pad hopping all over the place I don't find that to always mean someone is very resilient when things get hard and things always get hard at some point so those are a few then there's all the stuff you could guess you know beautiful Feminine all that stuff uh but I would say those are those are a few also someone who

has an identity where they feel confident in having done hard things that's the other benefit of I would say people who have done something objectively to the extent that it's possible difficult is they have a certain confidence that helps the whole relationship right I feel like you need to have a certain identity confidence in your own own Ability and skills and selfhood self-authoring before you can really be a good partner I think that's I think that's the case as best I can tell but I'm I don't think I'm the last person you would want relationship

advice from but let's wait until I have it a little more figured out on self-experimentation you're known as using yourself as a guinea pig what are the next five things I'm planning to experiment with uh I'll probably get back on look I I don't do As much crazy experimentation as I used to I am looking at some regenerative medicine protocols uh possibly for helping inflammation and some of the lower back stuff which is greatly improved since I started doing a few things but the jury is still out so I'm not going to get into that

yet I don't want to make any prescriptive recommendations until I've really tested things and uh archery training bunch of new types of archery training that I'm Excited to play around with and uh beyond that really a lot of it is just putting in the work with things that I believe will be high leverage like working on hips internal and external rotation and a few other things that I think directly contribute to overall core and low back functionality for lack of a better way to put it but nothing crazy in my Opinion uh some of the

medical stuff people might think is crazy but it's it's pretty pretty solid research that's backing this stuff you know 10 to 20 years of research search so I don't I don't feel like it's high risk what risks have I taken in the last 10 years that have really paid off are there any that did not pay off well you know the podcast we could look at as a risk but risk for me is a very specific thing so when people say this is risky this isn't Risky I think definitions matter a lot for me risk

is the potential of an irreversible negative outcome very few things fall in that category so the podcast was very off the beaten path for me but I didn't view it as risky because I could always stop doing it I could always just hit cancel it was low cost to get started I enjoyed the process so the outcome wasn't the only measure of success for me and uh that was quite a Divergence That paid off certainly paid off I would say that I've made some good investment calls and I've made some bad investment calls so the

good ones fortunately make up more than make up for the the bad ones but with let's just say web 3 as an example I went very heavy and hard into a lot of web 3 and put money into a bunch of different funds and various things uh cockp punch as an nft project was successful and I set expectations I Think properly at the beginning uh if you go back and read that fq like I've delivered on all of those and I'm going to deliver continually beyond that I have a lot more to share and everyone

else has run for the not everyone else but pretty much everyone else has run for the Hills and they're like forget about all that no no forget about all that sleep sleep they don't want anybody to remember I don't mind at all because I didn't I took all those proceeds and Donated to the foundation the foundation Cay Foundation is going to do some amazing work with the whatever it ended up being $2 million or something maybe a little bit more so a lot of good will come of that and it was a huge creative Catalyst

for me and I think that without that I wouldn't be working on a new book project right now as an example so it it checked all the boxes in terms of its objectives but as a sector I would say Uh took a took a lot of huge hits on that one and you live and learn you know I wasn't playing with money I couldn't afford to lose but it was it was enough that it was very painful so there's an experiment that didn't pan out but there's a reason they call them experiments and not guarantees

uh but yeah you got to choose your bet sizing properly so you don't put Yourself in a bad situation all right so that risks that it paid off that was from Rebecca Andre currently in a moment where I don't know what to do professionally have you had those moments yeah right now I'm not sure not sure what I want to be when I grow up and uh some days it's really stressful to be honest which sounds silly I know but it is I like having a plan I like executing to plan so the book is

really the only Thing that is in my sights at the moment that uh looks clear otherwise what I'm doing my best to do is try a lot of little things little experiments expose myself to new people have couple of exploratory conversations a week or read things listen to things I wouldn't usually read or listen to and have confidence because I've figured it out multiple times in the past that I will figure it out again I don't need to fog myself unnecessarily I've yet to find That helpful so that may not be super tactical at this

point but that's that's what I've been telling myself on my good days when I'm not beating the [ __ ] out of myself in my own head David what is your current next project that I'm excited about how are you approaching it differently so this is I say the new book I'm actually being much more collaborative with this book than I have in the past and that that's proving to be a godsend because I have people to Bounce things off of and to interact with it's just psychologically I think much healthier at least at this

point in my life than being a lone wolf on these projects because Lone Wolf it's not a thing by the way like look at nature no Lone Wolf survives doesn't work so I'm uh using that as a broad way to experiment and by the way [ __ ] punch was a precursor to that because I worked really well with what you guys will see soon with the concept art and a lot of The collaborative writing that was done and it was awesome it was a great process really had fun it wasn't just locking myself in

a cave like I'm in solitary confinement and that is what I'm trying to emulate also in the uh writing of this new book so we'll see I mean I have about four or 500 pages drafted so it's going to be it's going to be another big one but you know that's what I do have You experimented with peptides I experimented with uh is it BMP 157 or bpc 157 like 12 years ago long time ago so I am at a date with peptides but I did experiment way back in the day but I really need

to educate myself before I can have any thoughts on that whatsoever and by the way just as a quick aside with anyone online if they only have high conviction statements if they really speak confidently all the time be very wary of those People people who are being honest should say I have no [ __ ] idea all the time or they should say you know what I'm not really sure I need to educate myself everyone online should have that response a lot if they don't then you're not going to be able to separate out the

real from the fake because they're saying everything with the same high level of conviction be really careful about that what mindfulness practices do I use to prepare for high stakes presentation or performances I would say I don't let fear make me afraid in the sense that I I really remind myself if you weren't nervous right then it would be a bigger problem it is normal to be nervous before you go up like my hands are shaking a little bit I've done these things hundreds of times and I still get nervous I still get sweaty I

still drink too much Diet Coke or coffee or whatever Beforehand as a ritual which just makes me more shaky obviously and it's like it's okay it's fine like anyone who's going out to perform at a high level or attempting to do it at a high level is going to be nervous so just use it like Mike Tyson would puke before he went on stage well on stage in the ring Dean Martin used to puke before he went on stage I mean these These are legends right I'm not saying you want to emulate everything about them

but these are People who are at the top of their field so it's okay for them it's okay for you so I just remind myself of that and and I will rehearse my ass off there's no mental trick you can do beforehand if you haven't prepared and for me the preparation is the mindfulness practice I mean with my TED talk like I rehearsed it so many times into voice memo on my phone walking around I mean hundreds of times so by the time I got to the day of the presentation on the main stage of

Ted I was like well I've put in the time the deliberate practice I've done everything I can do so I am as prepared as I will ever be so let it rip let's see what happens uh I'd say that's that's the mindfulness practice I thought about doing content more geared at kids teens yeah I've thought about that I thought about it I'm not sure what the best venue is but I am going to be doing some experimentation for Students probably older students though kind of University or business school level what am I looking to get

out of the TF meetups and how can we help how can you help you know that was a question so if some folks have asked like what question came up a lot some of the questions are just like hey how's it going because the interactions are so short they're like hey how's it going um you know where you where are you where do you want to go and then we'd run out Of time but one of the questions was like how can we be helpful to you and my answer was and is now connect with

like-minded people do stuff in real life and this ties into AI it's like if if you want to if you want to I think harness your Humanity do stuff in real life like meet people man because the Poison's coming in terms of information delus it's going to 10x in the next 10 to 18 months and most minds and habits are not going to Be ready for that I think it's impossible to be ready but to be more resilient I would just say do more in real life like connect with like-minded people try to do meetups

you can do Zoom or something like that if you can't do live but like really seek out your tribe and if those people happen to overlap with the people who came to the meetups which was my hope then great like you just connected with a bunch of people who might Be of kind of similar similar tribe so I would say I would say do that will I plan any iners some conferences I don't have any plans right this moment um Joel I see your note on IBS I don't have a lot of thoughts on IBS

I apologize I just don't know much about it uh I mean you what you could do and I don't know if this will work but I mean you could just use like metamol citrus cell beforehand I mean it does slow gastric emptying and it does also reduce Glycemic index so if you're going to eat a meal you know it's going to spike your glycemic index side note you can take like five of these capsules with uh fiber just a slow things down so that the release isn't as intense uh so but I'm not a doctor

I try not to pretend to be one on the internet but I I really don't know much about IBS unfortunately but I'm looking at anti-inflammatory protocols that could have an effect on this type of Issue but I haven't looked at it well enough so I don't want to give you any opinions what are some of my heresies um I mean I think a heresy that I have is just I think a lot of what we try to do in Modern Life is a very new experiment right so I think if we look back at older

societies and they're not all rose-colored right it's it's very seductive to look back at indigenous group X Y or Z and say oh you know they Had it all figured out they were in tune with nature and it's like well if you go back you also very often even now see domestic abuse and lots of alcoholism other issues so it's it's not ever perfect anywhere but I would say if we look at what gives people meaning I think we've been LED astray with a lot of kind of brainwashing and theory that doesn't map very well

to anthropological study or really just common behaviors that you see around the World that seem to have some durability and Nasim Talib talks about this a lot so I would just say broadly thinking that in a lot of ways individually just in terms of like rugged individualism we've gone off track a bit and that a lot of the I'd say common ways that we plan our careers and lives are actually at odds with ultimately what's going to give us fulfillment I would say can unpack that more another time so a Couple people asking about conferences

maybe maybe at some point I'll do a conference it would be quite small you know it wouldn't be more than 200 people so if I ever did it it's a lot of work frankly and when I did it last time it was basically not for profit because I spent so much money on the quality of the event so I don't know I'm I'm not sure I have the energy to do it as a nonprofit and if it were not to be a nonprofit it would just be stupidly Expensive it would be like 30 grand a

person or something obscene which I would feel kind of silly putting out there how realistic is it to consider the health span possibility RJ to get to 150 years old in good health I'm not really sure how to evaluate this to be honest I I'm more focused these days on experiential lifespan and trying to harness and I've spoken about this before but trying to organize events Gatherings of Friends in some cases very intense physical experiences like long difficult hikes or pilgrimage trails with people I really care for to basically pack a few months into say

a week at a time I think that's a reliable actionable way to extend your experiential lifespan right to feel like you've basically packed 150 years into your let's say 85 uh most attempts at extending longevity in any meaningful way have all Failed to date right and maybe we are in fact at this cusp of all these Amazing Discoveries that will lead us to live a really long time maybe that's Rapa maybe that's some type of Tim restricted feeding maybe that is fall of Statin maybe it's who the [ __ ] knows you know there's always

something there's always some new ponon Fountain of Youth that people have found especially on the internet I'm not super bullish on that stuff here's the thing I would say for Myself they're likely to fail so I would rather have low expectations and be pleasantly surprised later than to take all of these things and suffer what will most definitely be significant side effects that we haven't foreseen with a lot of this new stuff so like fall stat for instance like it basically cripples FSH and animal models so it's like do you really want to be infertile

uh can you reverse That after the fact like yeah great you have eight pack and you look younger than you did 8 weeks ago but now your balls don't work so I'm not ready to make that trade you know maybe after I have three or four kids sure but uh I would just be very careful with that kind of stuff so 150 I mean if we're talking about that in the next you know basically putting people on a Glide path that will land them there in the next 10 To 15 years I'm pretty skeptical I

mean especially with increases in environmental toxins and other issues that will besiege Humanity over the next 10 to 20 years certainly I mean more weather issues forc migrations all sorts of [ __ ] um I'm not dystopian about it but I'm not it should tell you something that I'm not about my personal beliefs at least that I'm not doing a lot of that stuff yeah I mean if you account for Infant mortality and antibiotics and then you look at say my entire family history on both sides it's like yeah males tend to die around 85

that's just the way it goes so I would love to live longer but I'm not going to take a lot of unnecessary risks where I see significant potential downside so long answer I'm interested in it for sure like I track some of the science Andy Bruce any tips on walk in the Kumo cot Though taking your 11-year-old son with you that's cool that's fun uh there are a million different ways to walk this pilgrimage Trail in Japan which is the sister Trail of the commo de Santiago in Europe there's the only two world heritage pilgrimage

Trails so there are like a thousand different ways you can do the kumoko it's like a tributaries that then filter down to the main Shrine and Temple because they basically took like Shinto mapping and Then put Buddhism on top of it I would pick one that crosses rivers and water if you can that's just really Pleasant feature when you're hauling ass and getting really sweaty and so on bring walking sticks for sure like poles especially for the downhill you'll be walking on Rock a lot it's very hard on the joints so nice thick heels you

know hoca shoes or something like that I would suggest like you will feel it in your ankles and your knees and uh you Know my thought is if you're going to do something longer because some people will do like a week at a time or 10 days at a time you could spend months on the K codo is do a little bit less than you think you can each day like don't push it super hard because you may be then handicapped the next day if your knee really bothers you you're not going to you're not

going to want to put a lot of weight on that for the next 10 Kilometers or 20 kilom right so I'd do a little bit less than you think you can each day something about the Tweet of the kettle B swings is King of the exercise where else can you find the king of X could be relationships Finance anything I think you I think a lot about barbell approaches to life so for instance like highrisk Angel Investing and then like mun bonds as boring and as stable as you get right so it's kind of one

or the other like highrisk high Return with small amounts of money or very stable predictable boring and not playing in the middle as soon as you start playing in the middle you're like I'm going to play with tech growth stocks da da and then you at least in my experience that's how you get your face ripped off or that's how I get I get my face ripped off so I think about barbell distributions a lot in physical Fitness and finance and everywhere aside from Richard Fineman if I could bring back one person from the dead

for a podcast episode who would it be oh man there's so many right I'm tempted to say like Marcus Aurelius or something but Sena who knows I mean probably senica because I've just read so much of his stuff and I'm curious if I would find the guy to be an arrogant prick or what the vibe would be in person right assuming we're speaking the same language I would be super curious about senica he gets a Very mixed review but I mean I'm once again listening to an audio book uh on anger or Ona Ira I

mean his writing is amazing the guy's writing is amazing but what would he be like in person would I be like oh yeah this is the uncle who talks too much God this guy's longwinded maybe Ben Franklin I'd be interested very interested in um those are a few that come to mind I mean I I could come up with 100 more for sure but those are Those are two off the top of my head do I have any mentors that I contact regularly for Life advice this is from Jeff I found in midlife that I

really missed out on having fatherly mentors in my 20s and 30s yeah there are I talked to uh one this morning in fact he's uh early 70s very healthy really takes care of himself great marriage close to his kids and I think he has grandkids now and so we did a check-in for about an hour today Caught up and this is a good reminder for me to do that more often so I do feel I do feel good good about that Paula what are my thoughts on iasa on anti-depressants you've been doing iwaska for 13

years only just started taking anti-depressants unsure if I should mix both this is from Brazil you need to be very very very careful so IA plus certain anti-depressants like ssris can cause a potentially fatal serotonin Syndrome so you need to be very very very careful with that so I would absolutely speak with doctors about that I not mix them until you get the go ahead from doctors and I I imagine a psychiatrist who prescribe the anti-depressants I'd be very careful with that iasa is one of the one of the riskier compounds at least of the

let's call it classically known psychedelics with respect to combining with anti-depressants so I'd be very Careful with that and side note I learned not too long ago that people who were taking Lithium should really not screw around with psychedelics a lot of Adverse Events been reported at least with some of the classical let's just call it not not entirely tryptamine but LSD psilocybin Etc so if you're taking higher doses of of lithium now there's some there are some ways that could be conflated because of people are taking Lithium what are they taking it for they

might be taking it for any number of conditions that would be contraindicated with psychedelics in the first place so who knows but uh I wouldn't mix lithium with these things either how can you incentivize someone to Mentor you I'm not sure how to do that I mean I I think you need to be a really good student number one he said no money possible I mean frankly I pay I pay for it a lot I mean I have friends who learn from me And I learn from them and they're older than I am and I

consider them mentors but at the end of the day I actually find it in some ways cleaner to just pay someone and uh if you wanted to get mentorship that isn't expensive like maybe you go to Toastmaster or you join the EO like entrepreneurs organization or YPO depends on what you're looking for but like mentors don't need to be expensive at all you know I have a mentor in archery and he's also kind of A mental performance coach doesn't need to break the bank so I would say you know you can go to your local

YMCA and find a coach in some Sport and if they're good at all at anything they will have life lessons for you especially if they're a bit older so I would say that my advice for the moment do I babysit sometimes for some of my friends uh I mean not really babysit but like I'll watch their kids for a little bit or watch a Disney movie With their kids like young kids uh how did I find it I think I look I think I'm a kid at heart so for me animals and kids are I

don't want to say easy but especially if they're little I find them pretty easy I think when if I have kids which is the Hope at least if they get to the point where they're like petulant kind of like mean-spirited um kids where they're just being [ __ ] I think I'll have a hard Time with that I think I will have a hard time once they like know which buttons they're pushing and they're just like drilling it in that I'm going to have trouble with but like little kids who just like are disregulated and

lose their [ __ ] because they haven't developed their prefrontal cortex like yeah like I can I can deal with that pretty well my opinion of this is from Judy glp1 medications this would be like Munaro or OIC uh glp want agonists believe they're in clinical trials now for depression anxiety yeah I haven't looked at them specifically for that did put up a blog post recently from Johan Hari on glp1 specifically so if you want to get some of the science and also a firsthand report of that I would uh just go on tim. blog

and search Johan J n n last name Har h a r i all right so this piece of artwork you know people love this I Love it too I bought this for $80 at an antique Warehouse in the middle of nowhere I saw it and I just loved it and grabbed it I love it every time I see it maybe it was less 60 60 bucks 80 bucks at an antique Warehouse yeah it's one of my favorite pieces of art that's a turkey tail below it a lot of turkeys around here uh or not tail

turkey feather for agents book agents and stuff uh last time I checked which was a long time ago Publishers Marketplace is a great place to look also find books that are kind of in the same category or vein as yours look at the acknowledgements and you'll very often see the agent there then you can reach out to them directly through something like Publishers Marketplace or these days a lot of these agents or agencies have their own websites thoughts on how to approach making some great in-person connections yeah I would look at my talk I gave

it South by Southwest which had the title how to build a worldclass network in record time something click baity like that but it actually delivers uh I would check that out all right this is from Dolan Dolan okay the last set was from Claudine thank you for those this one's from Dolan if I'm pronouncing that correctly basically anything that I would like to talk about that I haven't had an opportunity to talk about yet for instance my interest SL journey in Connecting with animals and nature maybe some insights for my personal exploration of psychedelic and

non-ordinary states of Consciousness over the last 10 years so I have probably a thousand pages of notes on all this and at some point I feel like that might be the most important book that I write but it's going to be it's going to be a lot to put it together so in a way the book I'm doing now where I'm collaborating is sort of a Possible warm-up for that because I I don't think it's a book that I would want to do by myself it would just be such a heavy lift and uh yeah

we'll see we shall see but I think if I if I talk about that at some huge length it'll probably be in a book I'd want to think about it because it'll get so strange it will get so unbelievably strange number one first all the Scientific regulatory kind of on the radar above the line logistical stuff that I want to handle in the Psychedelic Therapeutics world I want to handle first because if I ever write this book it is going to get so weird that at least 20% of the people who read it are going

to think I'm completely insane it'll just be so strange I wouldn't want it to damage my current credibility that I have to get Things done in those worlds and U including some of the stuff with animals man it gets I mean if you talk to people who've like been in this stuff for let's just say culturally for hundreds or thousands of years it's not weird but to most folks it's going to sound pretty [ __ ] weird which I get excited about but I'm going to wait until I'm like you know what I don't give

a [ __ ] what anyone thinks cuz it's Not going to interrupt anything else that I'm doing I don't care then maybe that book but it's going to be a little while this is from andrece all right so it's a it's a longer let's see here I'll paraphrase here basically I'm very rational and methodical about decision-making and so on rational approach is admirable but sometimes being a rational or spontaneous can inject a lot of energy and fun have I found space for Rationality to play a role in my life the irrational and emotional for decisions

and if so have they ever led me to alter my wellth thought out plans for the year so I would say yes I don't know if IR rational it would be the word I would use Maybe because you have like let's take moral I don't know what the proper word would be here but you have you have moral behaviors you have immoral behaviors and let's just call those nonmoral behaviors then you have Amoral behaviors that are kind of like in this no man's land so I would say if you have like rational rational irrational the

opposite then there's like irrational I don't think that's a word but somewhere in the middle where it's like it's it's not it's not driven by Logic it's driven more by feeling I'm doing more and more of that these days for sure I mean our sort of Evolved system here with lots of valuable apparatus for navigating reality predates Language by at least this kind of language by millions of years so uh yes I found space for that although I'd be very careful about I see this quite a bit in Austin and places like it where there's

this like Neo new Agy stuff where people are like I'm just using my intuition and I think very often that is used for people used by people who just Want a justification for doing what they want to do or doing something that is easier than the hard thing and they're like well I'm just using my intuition right intuition is interesting to me when it points you in a direction you didn't expect right where let just say you go on a date and on paper they're perfect and you're like I'm going to love this person and

then you meet them and you're like something's a little weird here Like I want to like them but this isn't right that's where intuition is valuable right or like a business deal everything looks perfect and then there's something about it like uh my gut just doesn't feel right that's where intuition is interesting if you're like this all looks perfect on paper and you know what even though all my friends are telling me it's a terrible investment my intuition tells me to do it like that's where I'd be like well like wait a Minute here is

this just confirmation bias what are my thoughts on blogging in the age of AI I mean look AI is amazing it's really incredible but writing for me is a way of clarifying my own thinking and I do think that taking the time to craft words without the assistance of AI is helpful I might use AI to get past the blank page but I think it's seductive as a drug and just like most people people can't tell Direction without Google Maps now I Think it's it's very possible almost inevitable that people will lose certain faculties that

they currently have by overusing AI so uh we shall see but I plan on doing more writing to the oldfashioned way I have not used binaural beats I am very interested in that and actually just reminded me somebody owes me something on binaural beats so if you have any recommendations for what types of binaural beads let me know forour dog training yeah maybe Never Say Never best thousand I spent lately I mean it was more than that but on the archery training it's always something like that it's very rarely stuff I mean sometimes it's stuff

like there's a I bought an extra soite PSO RIT and a mini Rumble roller that I can travel with and those have been amazing for just like rolling out my glutes and per foris and my legs and stuff before bed really helps with sleep A lot but that's like I don't know 100 bucks 150 um I buy very well I try to buy very little stuff it just ends up causing me more stress as clutter around my house than the value that it adds so so I try to get rid of a lot of stuff

good question of the was the last $1,000 worth of clutter that gave me the most relief when I gave it away that's what I should think about am I aware of Javier M I think that's How you say his name in Argentina I am I've actually listened to some of his speeches pretty interesting stuff I don't know enough about them but a number of my friends are are big fans so need to do more research best thing that I spent an ass load on uh what's the best thing I spent an ass load on not

to get too technical would be a family trip I took my parents and brother and his wife on a trip around Europe and um that was definitely an assload of cash but I Think that was a good good investment and um I would recommend everyone read something called The Tail End by Tim Urban that is a good investment of time it's very short do I like painting not sketching as a hobby I haven't learned how to paint I would like to dabble in ideally watercolor I think think but do I have any quick tips for

getting up to 10 to 20 minutes on the acupuncture mat yeah that's for people who are curious the naoya ACU pressure mat I think or Other there are a lot of imitations that I'm sure just as just as good I don't go to 20 minutes typically but like 10 to 15 if I'm going to do it the first three minutes are going to be torer so you just have to get through the first like 3 to four minutes is my experience otherwise I don't have I don't have much to tell you it can be it

can be pretty intense thoughts on dating apps oh man this is like Warren Buffett covering his Eyes and like pointing towards Wall Street because half the people are going to have terrible experiences uh I don't know to be frank I mean I I think hinge has been one of the better options so far I think that in terms of just quality people have to pass some hurdles and add some information uh the league is pretty interesting also because you can search by interest which is so critical I don't know why you Can't do it on

any other app but you can search for like skiing or whatever to find somebody who has similar interests but the league is really only effective in certain cities it's not used widely everywhere but like in a place like New York City or LA or whatever you could find people who are pretty well educated interesting uh but a downside is people tend not to use it that frequently so you might have a great match and they don't see your message for 6 months So go figure it's a jungle out there folks be careful and there are

a lot of people catfishing so watch out for that too do a video call before you meet up with someone what's my favorite science fiction movie and why big fan of the second Dune movie frankly uh ex bakina I remember really enjoying there are a lot of great science fiction movies I think her was fantastic and you know at the time it seemed insane and it's basically already there if you look at get the Latest editions of chat GPT and so on things like replica with a K replica uh yeah her is basically already here

it's pretty nuts with questions about [ __ ] punch it'll it'll be more interesting once I release the rest of the stuff or a bunch of it then you'll have a lot more to chew on and I'll give you a foreshadowing it's not really a foreshadowing it is a statement that I hope is a statement of fact and that is I will have some some fan writing Competitions like elimination competitions and so that will reward people who really dig into the details they'll also have to be decent writing of course Claudine have I let the

enormity of 10 years of TFS really land not just from a metrics POV but from a positive kindness deepening Etc human level it's been such a Force for good and lighten this world thank you Claud and that's very kind of you to say I would say that I I did when the celebrations were happening but I could do a better job I could do a better job of sitting with that so thank you for the reminder it's easy for me to just like move on like yeah yeah good job but like you just did your

job so don't get too happy with yourself and like what's next what's next right like yeah you did your job and that's fine but like don't get too smug about it or self-satisfied but I Find that pretty that can be very self-defeating right so I did take time to celebrate for the 10th anniversary and I had a great time the inperson meet up in Paris was great and it was really fun to in person hear the stories from people who are deeply affected by the podcast so thank you for the reminder I will I will

um I will take a moment today to revisit that thank you I should travel to meet girls well I mean why was I in Europe for 6 to8 weeks Uh who knows maybe it was related to that is it possible that my mood improved during this Q&A yeah it's entirely possible I was exhausted guys I'm not going to lie at the beginning of this but I enjoy these interactions so it is certainly possible that my mood improved as a function of my energy going up so thanks for that everybody where do I see myself in

30 years good Lord I don't know hopefully not six feet under we'll see I'll be 30 years I'll be 40 no 76 77 [ __ ] so I don't know hopefully I'll be doing Black Diamond skiing because uh we found the Fountain of Youth have you suggested a workout routine this is mags for my parents if not what would it potentially look like how would you approach it yeah I would say super slow protocol look up Ken Hutchins and the super slow protocol and uh yeah my dad's lost I don't know 80 lbs like let's

call it 40 kilos in the last year so he's Made a lot of progress that's slow carb diet it's a straightforward from four our body and then super slow as applied so super slow in in very basic terms is minimum 5 Seconds up 5 Seconds down so if you're doing a pressing movement five seconds slow right up five seconds down one set one set to concentric failure uh could be even slower could be 10 seconds up 10 seconds down but especially in elderly quite effective for building muscle mass and increasing Bone density without injury so

that is probably what I would I mean that's what I prescribed to my parents that plus walking to the extent that it's possible Right Kind of barbell once again with slow carb diet is the glue that holds everything together how do I record a podcast while walking this right here this is atm50x it's an Audio Technica headset it's has a USBC attachment plug that into your IPhone and then you can use Riverside or some other app there are a lot of different ways to record this is from Mariana over the years I've followed and learned

from you and your guest I've heard you say several times that I'm interested in parenting have you ever considered being a single parent family by choice I too for many years was trying to find the perfect partner till I turned 41 and my doctor told me it was time to unfreeze My eggs since I was still single and look for the partner decided my best option was to be a single parent so I got a non and ious donor and had my son when I was 43 as I'm almost six now we travel the world

together could not be happier with the drama-free life we have just wishing to see you fulfill your parenting dream and wondered if I would consider this option too yeah I would consider it I would consider it you know I think for a long time it was no but I Would consider it I would I mean of course ideally I would have the partner but I would consider it yeah it's not off the table but I'm still fighting the fight getting back into the dating as much as I'm just like [ __ ] this is this

is a young man's game doing this online dating [ __ ] uh frankly just the communications burden is so much G yeah so anyway but to answer your question yeah it's on the table for me Joel I see Yours one of my big goals is to create the world's first coffee mug to sell for more than a million dollars I like that I like that as a goal I don't really have a great recommendation for how to chip away at it you could look at from a PR perspective at least people who have you know

sold pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge or sold hamburgers that are like goldplated or like have have some type Of of gold on them for like $300 at some pizza joint right and the reason they're doing it is to get attention for everything else so what I would say is you could think about selling a million doll coffee mug and make that your past fail or you could come up with a compelling argument for why a coffee mug particular coffee mug should sell for a million dollars and then use that as a PR hook to bring

attention to everything else that you're doing which is probably Quite a bit easier but if you do that and someone buys it great fantastic you did it you sold one for a million bucks now that said if that is the only measure of pass fail then it's it's extremely binary but if you were to use it as a means by which you draw attention to everything else that you're doing then I think it's pretty interesting so there you have it have I Been to Brazil yes I've been to Brazil five or six or seven times

actually all over the place in fact uh how big is my staff pretty small few people two three people four yeah something like that three or four I guess at this point it's from Husain and Toronto after the 10 th anniversary I tried to organize a Fallout meeting however I had to cancel due to little interest I'll try again at the end of the summer can you think of a cost-effective Tim Ferris way to make Attendance at these events irresistible well you might consider I'm just making this up so this is on the fly but

you might consider partnering with another organization like EO or YPO or whoever right who might be looking for membership and you could say you know I'd love to host this type of event for fans of Tim Ferris or however you want phrase it right listeners of the Tim far show or readers of such and such Book and perhaps we can do an event where they come for free get exposed to these following speakers I think having speakers would be helpful so you could try to do that on your own or you could make it more

of an event right some type of activity so you could do I don't know Tim FIS show paintball Extravaganza right get 10 people to go do paintball or something who knows right you you have to make it like what are they what are they Considering as Alternatives right it's kind of like with Molly let's just say my dog Molly I remember at one point I was working with this dog trainer and she saw me giving kibble to Molly as the treat just her regular dog food but in little pieces and she goes what is that

and I was like oh it's kibble she's like oh man she's like you're not going to train your dog that way she said it's a crowded bar you got to TI with 20s she's like you're giving Her [ __ ] you have to have really good treats you have to tip with 20s it's a crowded bar right to compete with the squirrels and the dogs and the other stuff the smells so I would say those are a few ideas but if you have a small group of friends you could just you could just take their

temperature with a couple of different options and see how it goes right I mean uh those are a few initial thoughts but maybe helpful maybe not Timothy Keen this is visualization or affirmations I haven't used affirmations much to be honest I don't think actually that's not true with five minute journal and things like that kind of these statements like I am or whatever I'll also frequently have something like you have plenty of time or there is plenty of time right so that I don't feel artificially rushed which never produces great results or great feelings for

that Matter or something like frankly this is true for a lot of people on this Q&A right like you've already won the game you speak English you have a computer hopefully you're healthy like you've already won the game so just number one like take a breath realize there's no game on some level left to win like you've already done it you've already crossed the finish line so everything else is gravy so just like Take a chill pill and breathe and then for visualiz ation you know I use that mostly with athletic stuff uh sometimes if

I'm going to get on stage for like a speak engagement I'll visualize how it's going to go or I'll run through it visually like just like I have a VR headset on like I'll close my eyes I'm very visual so I'll imagine the whole thing walking out sitting in the right chair looking to the audience how I'm going to hold the Mic Etc and I'll run through some of that as rehearsal let's say those are what come to mind yeah check names I didn't realize that hinky was check for watches that's hilarious is uh yeah

what would this look like if it were easy Cindy question that I still ask myself all the time what do I like to ask my this is Victoria ask my fans when I meet them I ask who they would Like to hear on the podcast you if they could only pick one or two guests and they can't say Elon Musk or some huge name no huge names allowed who would you like to have on the podcast that's that's a question I ask and I actually have had a lot of those answers translate to guests on

the podcast Randy if we did a fan Meetup would you endorse it or say it's okay I mean this is where I have to be careful about taking on too much uh responsibility with these things So probably not because if I did that then anyone who's ever hosting a Meetup would come to me for the same thing and it would just create a huge comms problem for me and my my team so I'd probably need to be hands off I don't think yeah I mean to have a fan meet up I don't think you need

my permission uh you know if you're turning into like some crazy business then using my name then it turns into a separate Thing do I like electronic music yes I do I mean I'm pretty old school I mean I listen to shingo Nakamura quite a bit for like chill mixes dead mouse pretty old school but I I wrote 4our body to a continuous mix like a three-hour set of dead mouse there there's all sorts of stuff but it's usually something that's going to give me a fair amount of energy I listen to like lowf beats

type stuff when writing sometimes if I need something a Little downtempo for God knows where listen to a lot of like heavy heavy metal when I'm writing oddly enough State story strategy yeah I still use State story strategy people can look that up I got that from Tony Robbins I would consider having more comedians on the podcast but I feel like other people do a better job honestly you know like Rogan there's so many comedy podcasts out there I want to differentiate myself in some way that Feels authentic to me category of one kind of

stuff but yes Austin is now a comedy center it's pretty wild all right you guys I think that's that's me for now I'm going to get outside and shoot some arrows and I really appreciate everyone's time thank you for the hosting first and foremost so awesome so fun to see all of these events around the world and would love people to stay in touch with anyone they met at those events or look to Explore explore see what see what we can learn from each other right doesn't have to be limited to anything I talk about

you know just find people who have who are philosophically values aligned and see what you can learn from each other you know go go for some bike rides or something doesn't have to be coffee and Coffee and Wine get out and do something right try something new together anyway that would be that would be my my wish for you all and um really appreciate Everybody being so engaged and and um I hope you have a wonderful week and U to be continued we will do some more meetups all right you guys thanks everybody bye