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Episode: #769: Q&A with Tim — Reinvention, Visualization Techniques, Making “Risky” Decisions, Parenting Considerations, Intuition, New Hobbies, Dating, and More

Author: Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
Duration: 01:08:24

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This past April was the podcast’s 10-year anniversary, and the platform River helped listeners organize parties around the world in more than 180 cities! More than 4,000 people RSVP’d. I was able to join about 40 cities via Zoom for quick hellos and drinks (huge thanks to Rae and Ana

for the quarterbacking), and I had a blast dropping in on the Paris meetup in person. Thanks to everyone who gathered for wine, celebration, and meeting like-minded people! After all the parties, and as a thank you for their hard work, I invited all of the hosts to a private Q&A. And that’s what you’re about to hear.This episode is brought to you by: Momentous high-quality supplements: https://livemomentous.com/tim (code TIM for 20% off)Shopify global commerce platform, providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business: https://shopify.com/tim (one-dollar-per-month trial period)LinkedIn Ads, the go-to tool for B2B marketers and advertisers who want to drive brand awareness and generate leads: LinkedIn.com/TFS ($100 LinkedIn ad credit) Timestamps:[00:00] Start [07:08] A focus on reinvention.[07:43] Optimization.[08:30] Recent joy.[09:22] A CØCKPUNCH update.[10:19] How the day’s going so far.[10:55] Argentina affection.[11:51] Intriguing investments.[12:53] Top three snacks.[13:12] AI thoughts.[14:15] Modern dating.[16:32] Self-experimentation to come.[17:42] Analyzing the past decade’s risks.[20:06] Outthinking a career bottleneck.[21:09] My current big project.[22:19] Peptides.[22:37] Be wary of high conviction.[23:06] Preparation for high-stakes presentations.[24:42] Kid stuff?[24:56] Getting the most out of a Tim Ferriss meetup.[26:13] In-person conferences planned?[26:18] IBS relief.[27:03] Personal heresies.[28:26] What makes conferences worthwhile for me?[29:00] Longevity and healthspan.[33:21] Tips for a father-and-son Kumano Kodo walk.[34:49] A barbell distribution approach to life.[35:31] Who would I resurrect for a podcast interview?[36:24] Do I consult any mentors regularly?[36:54] Ayahuasca and antidepressants.[38:16] Incentivizing potential mentors.[39:13] Adventures in babysitting.[40:04] GLP-1 for depression/anxiety.[40:37] Cheap but choice art.[41:05] Finding a book agent.[41:28] Making positive, in-person connections.[41:44] Unmentioned things I’d like to talk about.[43:39] Is there room for the irrational?[45:59] Blogging in the age of AI.[46:39] Binaural beats.[46:56] 4-Hour Dog Training?[47:00] Best $1,000 spent lately.[47:55] Javier Milei.[48:07] Best thing I spent an “assload” on.[48:34] Painting.[48:45] 10-20 minutes on the acupuncture mat.[49:15] Dating apps.[50:15] Favorite sci-fi movies.[51:21] Reflecting on the impact this show has had on others.[52:23] Why was I in Europe for six to eight weeks?[52:31] The mood-altering effects of Q&A.[52:48] Where do I see myself in 30 years?[53:08] Workout routines for older parents.[54:13] How I walk and talk for podcasts.[54:33] Would I consider becoming a single parent?[55:38] A $1 million coffee mug?[56:52] Brazil.[56:59] A small but mighty staff.[57:07] Attracting event attendance.[59:08] Visualization or affirmations?[1:00:20] Today I learned this about Hodinkee.[1:00:26] What would this look like if it were easy?[1:00:32] What I ask show listeners when I meet them.[1:00:50] Eschewing endorsement remorse.[1:01:19] Music I like.[1:01:52] State, story, strategy.[1:01:59] The (not-so) funny thing about interviewing comedians.[1:02:17] Parting thoughts.*For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast.For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsorsSign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissYouTube: youtube.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, Margaret Atwood, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Dr. Gabor Maté, Anne Lamott, Sarah Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss.

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down and interview world-class performers of all different types, to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply to your own lives.

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This time, we have a slightly different format, and I happen to be the guest. Here's some context. This past April was the podcast 10th anniversary and the platform River, which I suggest checking out. It's very cool.

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Getriver.io helped listeners around the world organize get-togethers, parties in more than 180 cities.

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more than four thousand people rsvp and it was one hell of an evening and that evening span across the world at different times i was able to join about forty cities via zoom for quick hello's and drinks.

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So huge thanks to ray and anna for the amazing quarterbacking and i had a blast also surprise dropping in on the paris meetup in person which i always like to do if i can and i need to get out more maybe i'll do more of that.

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Huge thanks to everyone who gathered for the wine, the celebration, and most important, meeting like-minded people. A lot of folks who met for the first time at these meetups have stayed in touch and are doing amazing things. So that makes me happy.

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And after all the parties and as a thank you for their hard work, I invited all of the hosts to a private Q&A where they could ask me anything. And that's what you're about to hear. Covers a lot of ground, a lot of different subjects.

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I had a great time and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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Can I ask you a personal question? Now is an appropriate time. What if I did the opposite? I'm a cybernetic organism living this year over a metal endoskeleton. First and foremost, thanks everybody.

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I really appreciate all the hosting and amazing celebrations and goings 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.

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And what I thought we would do is bounce back and forth between These questions here and I'll do improv jazz as we go through. I'll pick some questions and then we will also do some live questions.

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Why don't we start with some live questions and then I'll hop in here and I'll answer as many questions as I can that were pre-submitted as well. All right. RJ from Malaga, Spain. Believe it or not, I have some ancestors from Malaga, Spain.

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One of them was killed in a bullfight, so be careful with the bullfights. All right, here we go. If you had to pick a topic for your podcast that I'd stick to from now on, what topic or theme would you pick? Probably reinvention of different types.

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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

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to step back and re-examine their assumptions, re-examine 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. Let's see.

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Kate and Cody, how do you think about over-optimization?

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Today many of us have the resources to enable us to spend countless percentage of our life tweaking and attempting to 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 my name because you might not like that but very top one percent of one percent in terms of performer put it to me is like you want to be incredibly.

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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 it's got a great family.

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Great husband and father is 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.

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I'm 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 joyful and meditative. Joel, hello, Joel. Our group had so much in common. It was so fun.

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Everyone wants to stay connected. They asked if there might be more opportunities for me to facilitate keeping us connected in the future.

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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.

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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. All right, Cindy has a question.

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Cock 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

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high production value video with all the bells and whistles and i've been sitting on this stuff for many months now and 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 i'm looking for questions that i can

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Answer 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 beautiful day here it's a little warm i don't handle heat terribly well i'm gonna go shoot arrows after this q and a

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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 a little tired. I'm not sure why. I might have a fever. I've been training really hard, so who knows?

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Maybe there was a bug in the food or something. I've been very tired today. It's unclear why, because I got plenty of sleep. So that's how I am today, but happy to be doing the Q&A. All right, I'll do a few more, and then I'll hop into the pre-submitted.

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All right, this is from Andres. Andy from Buenos Aires. What place does Argentina occupy in my heart today and why? I have deep affection for Argentina and the Argies. And I would like to get back down there, honestly.

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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.

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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.

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So I think at some point it's possible I'll go back to Argentina and do three to four weeks, full immersion, tons of tango, lots of steak, and probably lots of Malbec at the same time.

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So I would say 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.

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What type of business slash investment is the most exciting for me right now?

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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.

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So for instance, Maui Newby-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.

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It's a good business, but it's also doing a lot for the native ecosystem in Hawaii. So that'd be an example of something that I feel very aligned with, even though it's not the kind of tech multiples that we would be used to in potential outcomes.

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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. Let's see here.

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Top three snacks I'm eating right now. Yeah, I mean, I have Maui Nui right around the corner. So the Maui Nui venison sticks and then often it's some type of mixed nuts minus peanuts and let's say cans of lentils.

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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-focused companies,

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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.

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And as some people may have noticed, a lot of stuff that was Web3 at one point, those people have now pivoted into AI. And I'm trying to be cautious of anything that is kind of the investment sector du jour.

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And there's still interesting things in Web3, although I think blockchain is probably a better way to put it. And there are very interesting things in AI. But I like to invest in what I know.

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where I think I have an informational advantage, and I do not think I have an informational advantage with AI. This is a question on a few different things. I'll pick two of these.

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On modern dating, as a public figure, how do you navigate the complexities of modern

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Dating i would say slowly and very carefully what qualities to look for in a partner to ensure meaningful and sustainable relationship well first and foremost i would say that the smaller.

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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 the bars and just doing cold approaches.

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So I would say discretion, someone who prefers a certain degree of privacy, those are all indicators for me in the positive direction for trustworthiness. I recognize a lot of people live online, so that's just the nature of our current day.

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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

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Let's just say higher education for four years at a demanding university that doesn't automatically make them super genius is perfect for me but it shows probably they're able to focus on certain things that are challenging for extended periods of time same thing if they've been at jobs for.

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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.

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So those are a few, and then there's all the stuff you could guess. Beautiful, feminine, all that stuff. But I would say those are a few. Also, someone who has an identity where they feel confident in having done hard things.

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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. I feel like you need to have a certain identity

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Confidence in your own abilities and skills and selfhood, self-authoring before you can really be a good partner.

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I think that's the case as best I can tell, but 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.

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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? I'll probably get back on, look, I don't do as much crazy experimentation as I used to.

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I am looking at some regenerative medicine protocols, possibly for helping inflammation and some of the lower back stuff, which has greatly improved since I started doing a few things, but the jury's still out, so I'm not gonna get into that yet.

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I don't wanna make any prescriptive recommendations until I've really tested things. And archery training, a bunch of new types of archery training that I'm excited to play around with.

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And 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

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core and low back functionality for lack of a better way to put it, but nothing crazy in my opinion.

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Some of the medical stuff people might think is crazy, but it's pretty solid research that's backing this stuff, 10 to 20 years of research, so I don't feel like it's high risk.

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Let's see, what risks have I taken in the last 10 years that have really paid off? Are there any that did not pay off? Well, the podcast we could look at as a risk, but risk for me is a very specific thing.

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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.

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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.

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I enjoyed the process, so the outcome wasn't the only measure of success for me. And 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.

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So the good ones, fortunately, more than make up for the bad ones. But with, let's just say Web3 as an example, I went very heavy and hard into a lot of Web3 and put money into a bunch of different funds and various things. Cockpunch is an NFT project.

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was successful and i set expectations i think properly at the beginning if you go back and read that i think you like i've delivered on all of those and i'm going to deliver.

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Continually beyond that i have a lot more to share and everyone else is run for that not everyone else but pretty much everyone else has run for the hills and they're like forget about all that no no forget all that sleep sleep they don't anybody to remember.

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I don't mind at all. I took all those proceeds and donated it to the foundation. The SciSafe Foundation is going to do some amazing work with whatever it ended up being, $2 million or something, maybe a little bit more.

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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.

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So it checked all the boxes in terms of its objectives, but as a sector, I would say, took a lot of huge hits on that one. And you live and learn. I wasn't playing with money. I couldn't afford to lose, but it was enough that it was very painful.

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So there's an experiment that didn't pan out, but there's a reason they call them experiments and not guarantees. You gotta choose your bed sizing properly so you don't put yourself in a bad situation.

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Alright, so that risks that have paid off, that was from Rebecca.

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Andres currently in a moment where i don't know what to do professionally if you have those moments yeah right now i'm not sure what i want to be when i grow up and 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.

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in my sights at the moment that looks clear.

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Otherwise, what I'm doing my best to do is try a lot of little things, little experiments, expose myself to new people, have a couple of exploratory conversations a week, or read things, listen to things I wouldn't usually read or listen to.

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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 flog myself unnecessarily. I've yet to find that helpful.

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So that may not be super tactical at this point, but that's what I've been telling myself on my good days when I'm not beating the shit out of myself in my own head. David, what is your current next project that I'm excited about?

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How are you pushing it differently? So this is, I'd say, the new book.

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I'm actually being much more collaborative with this book than I have in the past, and that's proving to be a godsend because I have people to bounce things off of and to interact with.

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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. It doesn't work.

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So I am using that as a broad way to experiment.

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By the way, Cockmunch 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.

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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 writing of this new book. So we'll see. I mean, I have about 400 or 500 pages drafted, so it's going to be another big one.

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But you know, that's what I do. We experimented with peptides. I experimented with 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.

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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,

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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 fucking idea all the time.

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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.

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If they don't, then you're not gonna 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. Okay.

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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 really remind myself, if you weren't nervous, then it would be a bigger problem.

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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.

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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.

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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. Mike Tyson puked before he went on stage. all on stage in the ring. Dean Martin used to puke before he went on stage.

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I mean, 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. If it's okay for them, it's okay for you. I just remind myself of that. I will rehearse my ass off.

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There's no mental trick you can do beforehand if you haven't prepared. For me, the preparation is the mindfulness practice.

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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.

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So by the time I got to the day of the presentation on the main stage at TED, I was like, well, I've put in the time, the deliberate practice, I've done everything I can do. So I'm as prepared as I will ever be. So let it rip, let's see what happens.

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I'd say that's the mindfulness practice. If I thought about doing content more geared at kids, teens, I've thought about it.

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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?

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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 are you?

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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.

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If you want to harness your humanity, do stuff in real life, like meet people, man, because the poison's coming in terms of information deluge, it's going to 10x in the next 10 to 18 months.

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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. Connect with like-minded people, try to do meetups.

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You can do Zoom or something like that if you can't do live, but really seek out your tribe. If those people happen to overlap with the people who came to the meetups, which was my hope, then great.

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You just connected with a bunch of people who might be of similar tribe. I would say do that. All right. Will I plan any in-person conferences? I don't have any plans right this moment. Joel, I see your note on IBS. I don't have a lot of thoughts on IBS.

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I apologize. I just don't know much about it. What you could do, and I don't know if this will work, but you could just use Metamucil or Citrusel beforehand. It does slow gastric emptying and it does also reduce glycemic index.

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So if you're going to eat a meal, you know it's going to spike your glycemic index. Side note, you can take five of these capsules. with fiber just to slow things down so that the release isn't as intense. But I'm not a doctor.

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I try not to pretend to be one on the internet, but I really don't know much about IBS, unfortunately.

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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. Let's see. What are some of my heresies?

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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.

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So I think if we look back at older societies, and they're not all rose-colored, it's very seductive to look back at indigenous group X, Y, or Z and say, oh, they had it all figured out, they were in tune with nature.

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And it's like, well, if you go back, you also very often, even now, see domestic abuse and lots of alcoholism, other issues. ever perfect anywhere.

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But I would say if we look at what gives people meaning, I think we've been led astray with a lot 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.

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And Nassim Taleb talks about this a lot. So I would just say broadly thinking that in a lot of ways, individually, just in terms of rugged individualism, we've gone off track a bit.

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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 gonna give us fulfillment, I would say. Can unpack that more another time. All right, let's see.

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So 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 two hundred people so if i ever did it it's a lot of work frankly and.

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When i did it last time it was basically not for profit because i spent so much money on the quality of the event.

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So i don't know i'm not sure i have the energy to do it as a non-profit and if it were not to be a non-profit would just be stupidly expensive it would be like.

00:28:55 Speaker_00
Thirty 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 a hundred fifty years old and good health.

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I'm not really sure how to evaluate this, to be honest.

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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.

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I think that's a reliable, Actionable way to extend your experiential lifespan to feel like you basically pack hundred fifty years into your let's say eighty five most. Attempts at extending longevity in any meaningful way have all failed.

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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.

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Maybe that's rapamycin, maybe that's some type of time-restricted feeding, maybe that is folistatin, maybe it's, who the fuck knows?

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There's always something, there's always some new Ponce de Leon 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.

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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.

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So like Falstad, for instance, like it basically cripples FSH and animal models. So it's like, do you really want to be infertile? Can you reverse that after the fact? Like, yeah, great.

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You have eight pack and you look younger than you did eight 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 I would just be very careful with that kind of stuff.

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So one fifty. I mean, if we're talking about that in the next, basically putting people on a glide path that will land them there in the next 10 to 15 years, I'm pretty skeptical.

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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, forced migrations, all sorts of shit.

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I'm not dystopian about it, but it should tell you something about my personal beliefs, at least, that I'm not doing a lot of that stuff. Yeah.

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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.

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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. I track some of the science.

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All right, Andy Bruce, any tips on walking the Kumano Kodo, taking your 11-year-old son with you? That's cool. That's fun.

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There are a million different ways to walk this pilgrimage trail in Japan, which is the sister trail of the Camino de Santiago in Europe. Those are the only two World Heritage pilgrimage trails.

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There are like a thousand different ways you can do the Kumano Kodo. It's like a tributaries that then filter down to the main shrine. temple because they basically took like Shinto mapping and then put Buddhism on top of it.

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I would pick one that crosses rivers and water if you can. That's just a 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.

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You'll be walking on rock a lot. It's very hard on the joints, so nice thick heels. Hoka shoes or something like that, I would suggest. You will feel it in your ankles and your knees.

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My thought is if you're going to do something longer, because some people will do a week at a time or 10 days at a time, you could spend months on the Kumbh Mela Kodo. is do a little bit less than you think you can each day.

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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 want to put a lot of weight on that for the next 10 kilometers or 20 kilometers.

00:34:46 Speaker_00
So I'd do a little bit less than you think you can each day. All right. Something about the tweet. If the kettlebell swings is king of the exercise, where else can you find the king of X? Could be your relationships, finance, anything.

00:34:57 Speaker_00
I think a lot about barbell approaches to life, so for instance, high-risk angel investing and then muni bonds, as boring and as stable as you get, right?

00:35:06 Speaker_00
So it's kind of one or the other, like high-risk, high-return with small amounts of money or very stable, predictable. Boring. And not playing in the middle.

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As soon as you start playing in the middle, you're like, I'm gonna play with tech growth stocks, da-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 my face ripped off.

00:35:26 Speaker_00
So I think about barbell distributions a lot in physical fitness and finance and everywhere. Okay. Aside from Richard Feynman, 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?

00:35:40 Speaker_00
I'm tempted to say like Marcus Aurelius or something, but Seneca, who knows?

00:35:45 Speaker_00
I mean, probably Seneca 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, assuming we're speaking the same language. I would be super curious about Seneca.

00:35:57 Speaker_00
He gets very mixed reviews, but I mean, I'm once again listening to an audio book on anger or on IRA. I mean, his writing's amazing. The guy's writing is amazing. What would he be like in person?

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Would I be like, oh yeah, this is the uncle who talks too much. God, this guy's long-winded, maybe. Ben Franklin, I'd be interested, very interested in. Those are a few that come to mind.

00:36:20 Speaker_00
I mean, I could come up with 100 more for sure, but 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.

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I found at midlife that I really missed out on having fatherly mentors in my 20s and 30s. Yeah, there are. I talked to one this morning. In fact, he's early 70s, very healthy.

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really takes care of himself, great marriage, close to his kids, and I think he has grandkids now. 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 good about that.

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Let's see. Paula, this is one of my thoughts on ayahuasca and antidepressants. You've been doing ayahuasca for 13 years, only just started taking antidepressants. Unsure if I should mix both. This is from Brazil. You need to be very, very, very careful.

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So ayahuasca plus certain antidepressants 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.

00:37:20 Speaker_00
I would not mix them until you get the go-ahead from doctors, and I imagine a psychiatrist to prescribe the antidepressants. I'd be very careful with that.

00:37:27 Speaker_00
Ayahuasca is one of the riskier compounds, at least of the, let's call it classically known psychedelics, with respect to combining with antidepressants. I'd be very careful with that.

00:37:40 Speaker_00
Side note i learned not too long ago that people are taking lithium should really not screw around with psychedelics a lot of adverse events have been reported.

00:37:50 Speaker_00
Lisa some of the classical let's just call it not entirely trip to mean but lsd psilocybin etc so if you're taking higher doses of lithium now.

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There are some ways that could be conflated, because if 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?

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But I wouldn't mix lithium with these things either.

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How can you incentivize someone to mentor you i'm not sure how to do that i think you need to be a really good student number one said no money possible i mean i frankly i pay for it a lot of friends who.

00:38:29 Speaker_00
Learn from me and i learned from them and they're older than i am not consider the mentors but. At the end of the day, I actually find it in some ways cleaner to just pay someone.

00:38:39 Speaker_00
And if you wanted to get mentorship that isn't expensive, like maybe you go to Toastmasters or you join the EL, like Entrepreneur's Organization or YPO, it depends on what you're looking for. But mentors don't need to be expensive at all.

00:38:53 Speaker_00
I have a mentor in archery and he's also kind of a mental performance coach. He doesn't need to break the bank. So I would say you can go to your local YMCA and find a coach in some sport.

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And if they're good at all, at anything, they will have life lessons for you, especially if they're a bit older. I would say that's my advice for the moment. Do I babysit sometimes for some of my friends?

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I mean, not really babysit, but I'll watch their kids for a little bit or watch a Disney movie with their kids, young kids. How did I find it?

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I think I'm a kid at heart, so for me, animals and kids are, I don't wanna say easy, but especially if they're little, I find them pretty easy.

00:39:33 Speaker_00
I think if I have kids, which is the hope at least, if they get to the point where they're petulant, mean-spirited kids, religious being assholes, I think I'll have a hard time with that.

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I think I will have a hard time once they know which buttons they're pushing and they're just drilling it in, that I'm going to have trouble with. But little kids who just like,

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are dysregulated and lose their shit because they haven't developed their prefrontal cortex, like, eh, I can deal with that pretty well.

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Let's see, my opinion of, this is from Judy, GLP-1 medications, this would be like Munjaro or Ozempic, GLP-1 agonists. I believe they're in clinical trials now for depression slash anxiety. Yeah, I haven't looked at them specifically for that.

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I did put up a blog post recently from Johan Hari on GLP-1 specifically. So if you want to get some of the science and also a first-hand report of that, I would just go on Tim.blog and search Johan, J-O-H-A-N-N, last name Hari, H-A-R-I.

00:40:38 Speaker_00
All right, so this piece of artwork, 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.

00:40:54 Speaker_00
Maybe it's less, 60 bucks, 80 bucks at an antique warehouse. That's one of my favorite pieces of art. That's a turkey tail below it. There are a lot of turkeys around here or not tail, turkey feather.

00:41:06 Speaker_00
For agents, book agents and stuff, 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.

00:41:18 Speaker_00
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.

00:41:29 Speaker_00
Thoughts and how to approach making some great in person connections yeah i would look at my talk i gave it south by southwest which, add the title how to build a world class network in a record time something like that but it actually delivers i would check that out.

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All right, this is from 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.

00:41:57 Speaker_00
For instance, my interest slash journey in connecting with animals and nature, maybe some insights from my personal exploration of psychedelic and non-ordinary states of consciousness over the last 10 years. probably 1,000 pages of notes on all this.

00:42:10 Speaker_00
At some point, I feel like that might be the most important book that I write, but it's going to be a lot to put it together.

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In a way, the book I'm doing now where I'm collaborating is a possible warm-up for that because I don't think it's a book that I would want to do by myself. It would just be such a heavy lift. Yeah, we'll see. We shall see.

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But I think 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.

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Number one, first, all the scientific regulatory, on the radar, above the line logistical stuff that I want to handle in the psychedelic therapeutics world, I want to handle first.

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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.

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I wouldn't want it to damage my current credibility that I have to get things done in those worlds, including some of the stuff with animals, man.

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If you talk to people who've 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 fucking weird.

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which I get excited about, but I'm going to wait until I'm like, you know what, I don't give a fuck what anyone thinks because it's not going to interrupt anything else I'm doing. I don't care.

00:43:37 Speaker_00
Then maybe that book, but it's going to be a little while. All right. This is from Andres. I'll paraphrase here. Basically, I'm very rational and methodical about decision-making and so on.

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Rational approach is admirable, but sometimes being irrational or spontaneous can inject a lot of energy and fun. Have I found space for rationality to play a role in my life?

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The irrational and emotional for decisions and if so, have they ever led me to alter my well thought out plans for the year. So I would say yes. I don't know if a rational would be the word I would use because you have like, let's take moral.

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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 non-moral behaviors, then you have amoral behaviors that are kind of like in this no man's land.

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So I would say if you have like rational, irrational, the opposite, then there's like a irrational, I don't think that's a word, but somewhere in the middle where it's not. Driven by logic, it's driven more by feeling.

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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. millions of years. So yes, I found space for that.

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Although, I'd be very careful about – I see this quite a bit in Austin and places like it, where there's this neo-New Agey stuff, where people are like, I'm just using my intuition.

00:45:10 Speaker_00
And I think very often that is 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?

00:45:21 Speaker_00
Intuition is interesting to me when it points you in a direction you didn't expect let's just say you go on a date.

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And on paper they're perfect like i'm gonna love this person and then you meet them like something's a little weird here like i want to like them but this isn't right that's where intuition is valuable like a business deal everything looks perfect and then there's something about my gut just doesn't feel right that's where intuition is interesting if you like this all looks perfect on paper and.

00:45:50 Speaker_00
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, wait a minute here. Is this just confirmation bias?

00:45:59 Speaker_00
What are my thoughts on blogging in the age of AI? I mean, look, AI is amazing. It's really incredible.

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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.

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And just like most people can't tell direction without Google Maps now, I think it's very possible, almost inevitable, that people will lose certain faculties that they currently have by overusing AI. So, we shall see.

00:46:35 Speaker_00
But I plan on doing more writing the old-fashioned way. I have not used binaural beats. I am very interested in that and actually it just reminded me somebody owes me something on binaural beats.

00:46:49 Speaker_00
So if you have any recommendations for what types of binaural beats, let me know. Let's see. for our dog training. Yeah, maybe. Never say never. Best $1,000 I spent lately.

00:47:02 Speaker_00
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. I bought an extra SoRite, P-S-O-R-I-T-E, and a mini rumble roller that I can travel with.

00:47:22 Speaker_00
Those have been amazing for just like rolling out my glutes and piriformis and my legs and stuff before bed really helps with sleep a lot. But that's like, I don't know, 100 bucks, 150. I try to buy very little stuff.

00:47:39 Speaker_00
Just ends up causing me more stress as clutter around my house than the value that adds. So I try to get rid of a lot of stuff. Good question. It was the last $1,000 worth of clutter that gave me the most relief when I gave it away.

00:47:53 Speaker_00
That's what I should think about. Am I aware of Javier Millet? 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.

00:48:02 Speaker_00
I don't know enough about him, but a number of my friends are big fans, so I need to do more research. Best thing that I spent an ass load on, what's the best thing I spent an ass load on, not to get too technical, would be a family trip.

00:48:15 Speaker_00
I took my parents and brother and his wife on a trip around Europe, and that was definitely an ass load of cash, but I think that was a good investment. I recommend everyone read something called The Tail End by Tim Urban.

00:48:30 Speaker_00
That is a good investment of time. It's very short. All right. 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.

00:48:44 Speaker_00
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 Nyoya Acupressure Mat, I think. or other. There are a lot of invitations that I'm sure are just as good.

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I don't go to 20 minutes typically, but 10 to 15 if I'm going to do it. The first three minutes are going to be torture, so you just have to get through the first three to four minutes is my experience. Otherwise, I don't have much to tell you.

00:49:14 Speaker_00
It can be pretty intense. Thoughts on dating apps? Oh, man. This is like Warren Buffett covering his eyes and pointing towards Wall Street because half the people are going to have terrible experiences. I don't know, to be frank.

00:49:28 Speaker_00
I mean, 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.

00:49:39 Speaker_00
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 skiing or whatever to find somebody who has similar interests.

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But the league is really only effective in certain cities. It's not used widely everywhere, but in a place like New York City or LA or whatever, you could find people who are pretty well-educated, interesting.

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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 six months. Go figure. It's a jungle out there, folks. Be careful.

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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. Ex Machina, I remember really enjoying.

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There are a lot of great science fiction movies. I think Her was fantastic. At the time, it seemed insane, and it's basically already there. If you look at the latest editions of Chat GPT and so on, things like Replica, with a K, Replica.

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Yeah, Her is basically already here. It's pretty nuts. Give me a second, taking a note. Thank you for the binaural thing. Brainwave, smart mind. Okay, I'll check it out.

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With questions about cock punch, 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. I'll give you a foreshadowing. It's not really a foreshadowing.

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It is a statement that I hope is a statement of fact, and that is I will have some fan fiction writing competitions like elimination.

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Competitions and so that will reward people who really dig into the details they also have to be decent writing of course.

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Claudine have i let the enormity of ten years of tfs really land to not just from a metrics pov but from positive kindness deepening etc human level. It's been such a force for good and light in this world. Thank you, Claudine.

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That's very kind of you to say. I would say that 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.

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It's easy for me to just move on, like, yeah, yeah, good job, but 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.

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And that's fine but like don't get too smug about it or self satisfied but i find that can be very self defeating right so i did take time to celebrate.

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The tenth anniversary i had a great time in person meet up in paris is great news 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 take a moment today to revisit that.

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Thank you. I should travel to meet girls. Well, I mean, why was I in Europe for six to eight weeks? 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.

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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 So thanks for that, everybody. Where do I see myself in 30 years? Good Lord. I don't know.

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Hopefully not six feet under. We'll see. I'll be 30 years. I'll be 40. No, 76, 77. Fuck. So I don't know. Hopefully I'll be doing black diamond skiing because we found the fountain of youth. Have you suggested workout routines as mags for my parents?

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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.

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And yeah, my dad's lost, I don't know, 80 pounds, 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 all straightforward from four-hour body. And then super slow,

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as applied so super slow in in very basic terms is minimum five seconds up five seconds down so if you're doing a pressing movement five seconds slow right up five seconds down once it what's set to concentric failure could be even slower could be 10 seconds up 10 seconds down but especially in elderly quite effective for building muscle mass

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and increasing bone density without injury. So that is probably what I would, I mean, that's what I prescribe to my parents.

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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 ATH-M50X.

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It's an Audio-Technica headset. It has a USB-C 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. All right, let's see here.

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This is from mariana over the years i followed and learn from you and your guess i've heard you say several times that i'm interested in parenting ever considered being a single parent family by choice i do for many years was trying to find the perfect partner to turn forty one of my doctor told me it's time to unfreeze my ex since i was still single and look for the partner, decide my best options to be a single parent so i got a non anonymous donor and had my son when i was forty three six now we travel the world together could not be happier with the drama free life we have.

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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. Yeah, I think for a long time it was no, but I would consider it. I would.

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I mean, of course, ideally, I would have the partner, but I would consider it.

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Yeah, it's not off the table, but I'm still fighting the good fight, getting back into the dating as much as I'm just like, fuck, this is a young man's game doing this online dating bullshit. Frankly just the communications burden is so much.

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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.

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I don't really have a great

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recommendation for how to chip away at it, you could look at, from a PR perspective at least, people who have sold pieces of the Brooklyn Bridge or sold hamburgers that are gold-plated or have some type of gold on them for $300 at some pizza joint.

00:56:07 Speaker_00
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-dollar coffee mug and make that your pass-fail, or you could come up with a compelling

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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 everything else that you're doing which is.

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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 extremely binary.

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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?

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Yes, I've been to Brazil five or six or seven times, actually, all over the place, in fact. How big is my staff? Pretty small. A few people, two, three people, four, Yeah, something like that. Three or four, I guess, at this point.

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It's from Hussein in Toronto. After the 10th anniversary, I tried to organize a follow-up meeting. However, I had to cancel due to little interest. I'll try again at the end of the summer.

00:57:15 Speaker_00
Can you think of a cost-effective, Tim Ferriss way to make attendance at these events irresistible?

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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 who might be looking for membership and you could say, you know, I'd love to host this type of events for fans of Tim Ferriss or however you wanna phrase it, listeners of the Tim Ferriss Show or readers of such and such book, and perhaps we can do an event where they come for free

00:57:47 Speaker_00
Get exposed these following speakers i think having speakers would be helpful to try to do that on your own or you could make it more of an event.

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Write some type of activity so you can do i don't know compare a show paintball extravaganza and get 10 people to go to paintball or something. Who knows, right? You have to make it, what are they considering as alternatives?

00:58:09 Speaker_00
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?

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I was like, oh, it's kibble. She's like, oh man. She's like, you're not gonna train your dog that way. She said, it's a crowded bar, you gotta tip with 20s. She's like, you're giving her bullshit. You have to have really good treats.

00:58:33 Speaker_00
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.

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So I would say those are a few ideas, but if you have a small group of friends, you can just take their temperature with a couple of different options and see how it goes, right? I mean, those are a few initial thoughts, but maybe helpful, maybe not.

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I think those are the only ones that I can really answer well from the pre-submitted questions. I'm going to take a look at a few things that are left here. Timothy Keene, this is visualization or affirmations.

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I haven't used affirmations much, to be honest, I don't think. Actually, that's not true.

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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's plenty of time.

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Right so that i don't feel artificially rushed which never produces great results or great feelings for that matter.

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Or something like frankly this is true for a lot of people on this q and 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.

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realize there's no game on some level left to win. You've already done it. You've already crossed the finish line. So everything else is gravy. So just take a chill pill and breathe. And then for visualization, I use that mostly with athletic stuff.

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Sometimes if I'm going to get on stage for a speaking engagement, I'll visualize how it's going to go. I'll run through it visually, just like I have a VR headset on. I'll close my eyes. I'm very visual.

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So I'll imagine the whole thing, walking out, sitting in the right chair. look into the audience, how I'm going to hold the mic, etc. And I'll run through some of that as rehearsal. I'd say those are what come to mind. Yeah, Czech names.

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I didn't realize that Houdinki was Czech for watches. That's hilarious. 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.

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I ask who they would like to hear on the podcast. If they can 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 a question I ask.

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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?

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I mean, this is where I have to be careful about taking on too much responsibility with these things.

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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 team. So I'd probably need to be hands-off.

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To have a fan meetup, I don't think you need my permission. If you're turning into like some crazy business, then using my name, then it turns into a separate thing. But do I like electronic music? Yes, I do. I mean, I'm pretty old school.

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I mean, I listened to Shingo Nakamura quite a bit for like chill mixes. Deadmau5, pretty old school, but I wrote For Our Body to a continuous mix, like a three-hour set of Deadmau5.

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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 lo-fi beats type stuff when writing sometimes if I need something a little down-tempo for God knows where.

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I listen to a lot of 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.

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I would consider having more comedians on the podcast, but I feel like other people do a better job, honestly. Like Rogan, there's so many comedy podcasts out there.

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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 me for now. I'm going to get outside and shoot some arrows.

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And I really appreciate everyone's time. Thank you for the hosting, first and foremost. So awesome.

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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?

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It doesn't have to be limited to anything I talk about. No, just find people who have, who are philosophically values aligned and see what you can learn from each other. Go for some bike rides or something. It doesn't have to be coffee and wine.

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Get out and do something, right? Try something new together. Anyway, that would be my wish for you all. And I really appreciate everybody being so engaged. And I hope you have a wonderful week. And to be continued, we will do some more meetups.

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All right, you guys. Thanks, everybody. Bye. Hey guys, this is Tim again. Just one more thing before you take off, and that is Five Bullet Friday. Would you enjoy getting a short email from me every Friday that provides a little fun before the weekend?

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