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Can you really learn how to become world class at something you failed at just months ago?
Does your fear of missing out keep you stuck in painful dilemmas?
And what’s the key to making anything you do truly satisfying?
4 Hour emperor Tim Ferriss is here to tell us about fear, saying no, learning and how he turned his dismal failures into success.
In this interview:
- How to learn anything quickly
- Why saying “no” makes you stronger
- Dealing with painful dilemmas
- How to build confidence
- How to make anything truly rewarding
Also…
- How to get the most important stuff done first
- What it means to live the good life
- Why waiting to relax is making you weak
- Tim describes a typical day
- Why being born rich is a curse
About Tim Ferriss 
From Tim’s blog:
Timothy Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People of 2007”, Forbes Magazine’s “Names You Need to Know in 2011,” and is the 7th “most powerful” personality on Newsweek’s Digital 100 Power Index for 2012.
He is an angel investor/advisor (Facebook, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Evernote, Uber, and 20+ more) and author of the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been sold into 35 languages. He’s also author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Body. He is listed as #13 in the “100 Most Influential VCs, Angels & Investors” rankings. Newsweek calls Tim “the world’s best guinea pig,” which he takes a compliment.
Tim has been featured by more than 100 media outlets–including The New York Times, The Economist, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS–and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for world change and ideal lifestyle design.
He is also an active education reformer and has architected experimental social media campaigns such as LitLiberation to out-fundraise traditional media figures like Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 at zero cost, building schools overseas and financing more than 25,000 US students in the process. He is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, an educational non-profit and the first charity to make the Fast Company list of 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.
Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.
Tim received his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
He enjoys bear claws and chocolate croissants.
