#780 - Tim Ferriss - The Lessons, Hacks & Books That Changed My Life

The key takeaway for my very disappointing answer to what is my daily routine is that the exact boot up sequence does not matter. What matters is having at least, say, 3 hours in a block of time uninterrupted where you can focus on 1 or 2 of your highest leverage tasks, which have been defined beforehand.

I used to view loneliness as a failure of self, a failure of discipline, a failure of resilience, a failure of inner narrative. Something like that. I think it's much much simpler in the sense that loneliness is usually a failure of group activities in your calendar.

If you're the boss, let's just say, if you are the CEO or solopreneur, if you're making too many decisions, that is as fatal as making some of the wrong decisions. Too many decisions will also kill you.

If you can single-task for 2-3 hours a day, it sounds ridiculous, but you are going to be ahead of 90% of the population ... Whatever you need to do to do that, just figure it out.

I try to walk 2-3 hours a day. If I'm making any calls, I try to do them walking. Zoom is an abomination. It's helpful for some things, but we've solved this problem about being fixed in one place. It's called the phone...

The progression is state, story, strategy. So if you are in a, say, low-energy state or a negative state, you're going to create a disabling story, or critical or cynical story, which will then impact in the sense that you come up with a subpar strategy. So I always start with state, and then you will have a more enabling story.

I think I'm more effective than I am efficient ... Choosing what you do matters a lot more than how you do any one given thing.

I've seen more high-functioning people unravel on the three years from ketamine than any other substance in terms of addiction. It is very very psychologically addictive.

Effectiveness is what you do; efficiency is how you do something. But doing something well does not make it important or high leverage.

Life rewards the specific ask and punishes the vague wish.

If you were to try to set in stone some type of 3-year plan, you're probably going to be creating blindness for yourself where you don't see very attractive doors that open that you had not predicted.

I think it's very easy to mistake motion for progress, and it's, I I think, counterintuitive for someone to measure twice and cut once.