Tim Ferriss ✓
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Author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, early-stage investor (https://t.co/yOcEk9eccA), Tim Ferriss Show podcast (1B+ downloads), founder of https://t.co/9bQjti1v6c
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What past limitations—real or perceived—are you carrying as baggage? Oftentimes, everything you want is a mere inch outside of your comfort zone. Test it.
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“I don’t know where I’m going, but I know exactly how to get there.”
— Boyd Varty
Listen to this special compilation episode on turning failure into success, featuring Terry Crews, Tim McGraw, Jessica Lahey, Dax Shepard, BJ Miller, Cathy Lanier, Janna Levin, and Boyd Varty:
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“I remember the first day I went to get food stamps, going to the big white building by Prince George’s Plaza right near my home and standing in the same line with my son that I stood in with my mom when I was a kid, and I was like, ‘This is not my path. This can’t be my path.’”
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“If you don’t have a vision about what you want to do, if you don’t have a plan about what you want to do, if you don’t act on it every day, it’s not going to happen. It’s just not going to happen.“
— Tim McGraw
Listen to this special compilation episode on turning failure into
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“If I win or if I fail, it’s going to be on my terms. It’s going to be up to me. If I have the opportunity, I have to go for it.”
— Terry Crews
Listen to this special compilation episode on turning failure into success, featuring Terry Crews, Tim McGraw, Jessica Lahey, Dax
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“When you’re trying to change the law, you need people around you that are very strong and who are resilient because we got knocked down over and over.”
— Tania de Jong
Listen to my interview with Tania de Jong: https://t.co/JBnTUecgGO
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NEW podcast episode is up !
"How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia’s World-First Breakthrough"
My guest today is @TaniadeJong, co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia. Tania and her husband, Peter, helped lead the h
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If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important. If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important.
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Thanks to Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, my first attempt at a blog is forever preserved on the web.
As with most first drafts, it’s embarrassing!
Here is an archive snapshot from May 2006 of “Tim Ferriss: The Human Experiment.”
The domain name will probably give you a
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@tferriss It also seemed like a return to your roots. I remember finding your blog posts on Cubicle Escape Artist about supplements & lifting, before 4HWW launched.
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Laziness can mean blurred priorities and indiscriminate action. You can be very busy running around with a cell phone to your head 24 hours a day and still be very lazy because you’re not taking the time to prioritize.
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A big part of The 4-Hour Body (2010) was diversifying my identity. I felt this was a necessary step for my own personal preservation. I didn't want to put out "The 3 1/2 Hour Workweek" or "The 3-Hour Workweek."
I also wanted to diversify the public perception of my expertise. I
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"If you allow kids to learn at their own pace, you can pack the entire school day into a very small amount of time. When my own son was in third grade, after a lot of back and forth, we finally got permission from one amazing teacher for him to do independent study during math ht
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Why you need to workshop your ideas in person. https://t.co/XthdULQiWa
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7 Quotes on Writing
I hope you enjoy the following gems as much as I have…
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” — Kurt Vonnegut
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
— Arthur Ashe
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Few of us consider ourselves philosophers.
“Philosophy” usually conjures images of dense textbooks and academic quibbling with no application to real life. It’s fun for professors, perhaps, but a waste of time for the rest of us.
I felt this way for decades.
Then, in 2004,
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"There’s this sort of cultural shame around using your resources to allow your kids to get ahead." — @NielsHoven https://t.co/ooluqFRDOQ
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“Never ever let anybody make you feel guilty for advocating for your kid.”
— Niels Hoven (@NielsHoven)
Listen to my conversation with Niels Hoven: https://t.co/EZSQnml7AZ
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“If you allow kids to learn at their own pace, you can pack the entire school day into a very small amount of time.”
— Niels Hoven (@NielsHoven)
Listen to my conversation with Niels Hoven: https://t.co/EZSQnmkzLr
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NEW podcast episode is up!
"Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — @NielsHoven of @MentavaInc (Tim Coaching Session)"
This episode is a bit different. It’s a live, unscripted working session with a founder, and I’ve only done one other earlier this year.
Niels Hoven h
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How do you feel when you wake up and before bed and how easily do you fall asleep?
The time in bed in the morning and at night tells you all you need to know.
It's not a purely intellectual reasoning. It's not a pro and con list. It's not a spreadsheet. It’s not a Venn
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Certainly in the beginning you might think that money is the answer. After that, you might think that more time is the answer. After that, you might think, I simply need to care more for the physical vehicle, or I want to learn more. Then it's really just about acquiring skills,
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I definitely appreciate how many authors use their book primarily as a calling card to sell their speaking and consulting. I just don’t want to focus on those ancillary businesses, as I’m viewing my books mostly through the lens of a teacher who wants to affect change in the
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Incredible story. Adventure on, Matthew! Also, this should definitely go on my next book cover: "Just the sound of that guy's voice makes me feel car sick" - Children worldwide
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Day 5 @ https://t.co/dM4OAmFL22: How did I end up here? Roll back to Balaji's March 2021 appearance on the Tim Ferriss podcast.
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I get a lot of questions about "marketing," and people usually ask a granular technical question, but I think they usually miss the forest for the trees.
Perhaps "What exactly is 'marketing'?" is the question I don't get asked.
My answer: "Marketing" is knowing exactly who
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Overanalysis has been my life story. It can be far worse than laziness, as overanalysis leads to the same lack of action but ALSO self-loathing.
What helped me quite a bit was studying military history, military strategy, and decisive battles. The stories informed how I overcame
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The #1 most-clicked link in the latest 5-Bullet Friday edition:
“How to turn your AI into a world-class designer” by @anshuc on @lennysan's blog. Anshu led software engineering and design teams at Apple for 12 years. https://t.co/FLxzY0qrRN
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NEW podcast episode is up!
"Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and More"
This is a special episode about overcoming mistakes and failure. What do you do when your work is rejected, when the big bet fails, or
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Against accounts of the same size
41 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views62 628this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %3.15%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.61%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 62 628 | 14 648 | 4.28× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.15% | 0.74% | 4.25× |
| Engagement rate | 0.61% | 0.70% | 0.88× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.32%15 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes60.4%18 239 in total
Reposts5.1%1 547 in total
Replies2.9%873 in total
Quotes0.2%63 in total
Bookmarks31.4%9 483 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
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Daily snapshots since 19 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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