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March 30, 2023
Dr. Kelly Starrett — The Magic of Movement and Mobility, Training for Range of Motion, Breathing for Back Pain, Improving Your Balance, and More (#664)
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— Kelly Starrett
Kelly Starrett, DPT (@thereadystate) is one of my favorite performance coaches. When I have problems other people can’t solve, I call Kelly. He’s also a treasure trove of one-liners.
He is, along with his wife Juliet, co-founder of The Ready State. The Ready State began as MobilityWOD in 2008 and has gone on to transform the field of performance therapy and self-care.
Kelly’s clients include professional athletes in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB. He also works with Olympic gold medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world- and national-record-holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, professional ballet dancers, elite military personnel, and more.
Kelly is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers Becoming A Supple Leopard and Ready to Run. His new book is Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully, co-written with Juliet Starrett.
Juliet was the U.S. National Champion in extreme whitewater racing from 1997 to 2000 and World Champion from 1997 to 1998. She returned to the sport in 2018 to become World Champion in the Masters Division.
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Want to hear the first time Kelly was on this podcast? Check out my conversation with him and Dr. Justin Mager where we discussed the difference between being well and thriving, the fringes of physiology, exceeding “optimal” performance, correcting circadian rhythms while traveling, pattern recognition and “chunking” for improved talent acquisition, Kelly’s mattress selection, rebooting the parasympathetic nervous system, and much more.
#3: Kelly Starrett and Dr. Justin MagerWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEFind The Ready State Online: Built to Move: The Ten Essential Habits to Help You Move Freely and Live Fully by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett | Amazon Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett and Glen Cordoza | AmazonReady to Run: Unlocking Your Potential to Run Naturally by Kelly Starrett | AmazonHokkaido | Travel JapanWinter Outdoor Activities: What is Skinning? | Hike it BabyThe Ultimate Guide to Onsen Hot Spring Etiquette and Where to Enjoy a Japanese Bath | Live Japan Travel GuideOver 75s Make Up over 15% of Japan’s Population for First Time | The Japan TimesOlder Japanese Get Fitter and Children Fatter | The GuardianSitting Seiza: 3 Comfortable Ways to Sit on the Floor | Japan ObjectsMuscles and Meridians: The Manipulation of Shape by Phillip Beach | AmazonHatch Squat ProgramAll Rise Now — Just How Fit Are You? | Harvard HealthWhat Is the Sit Rise Test and How to Do It Properly | Ed Paget“I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up!” Compilation | iiAFXWhat is Range of Motion and Why Is it So Important? | Motion PT GroupTraining for the Centenarian Olympics | Dr. Mark HymanDr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind | The Tim Ferriss Show #521Gordian Knot | WikipediaWalking This Number of Steps a Day Only a Few Days a Week Has Major Health Benefits | TodayDr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to Pull | The Tim Ferriss Show #517These Lymphatic Drainage Workouts Are Basically a Detox on a Mat…or Trampoline | Well+GoodEverything You Need to Know about Cankles | The Vein InstituteDeep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Symptoms and Causes | Mayo ClinicAnkle Pumps | Michigan MedicineOlder Adults and Balance Problems | National Institute on AgingSlackBlock | Rogue FitnessCan You Stand on One Leg for 10 Seconds? Why Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death – And How to Improve Yours | The GuardianHow Japan Keeps Clean | Life Where I’m FromThe Key Differences between Yoga and Pilates | Harper’s BazaarThe English | Prime VideoSit and Reach Test | PhysiopediaCan You Pass the Old Man Test? | Squat UniversityThe Airport Scanner Test | The MailHow to do Downward Dog (Adho Mukha Svanasana) | Alo MovesConcentric, Eccentric, Isometric, Tempo… What Does it all Mean? | Fitbliss FitnessTorture in the Tower of London | Historic UKJefferson Curls: Weighted Mobility for the Posterior Chain | GymnasticBodiesA Powerful Breathing Exerciser | The O2 Lung TrainerDiaphragmatic Breathing Exercises & Benefits | Cleveland ClinicBreath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor | AmazonBreathing Method for Mind, Body and Sport | Oxygen AdvantageVO2 Max: How to Measure and Improve It | Cleveland ClinicHow Much Protein Should You Eat? | Peter AttiaEC Synkowski: 800g Challenge | The Ready State PodcastDeep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food by Catherine Shanahan | AmazonEWG’s 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce | Dirty DozenA Guide to the Delicious Sandwiches of 7-Eleven Japan | Grape JapanFunctional Movement SystemsDave Spitz: Olympic Weightlifting, Regret vs. Disappointment, and the Transformational Mantra “Never Do Nothing” | The Ready State PodcastCalifornia StrengthTimed Up and Go Test (TUG) | PhysiopediaSeven Benefits of Doing Squats and Variations to Try | HealthlineCouch Stretch: How to Do, Variations, Muscles Targeted, PrecautionsWhat Is a Couch Stretch and How to Do It | GealthlineHow to Do a Warrior One | HowcastHow to Do Chaturanga the Right Way | MindbodygreenThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonThe Karate Kid | Prime VideoSHOW NOTES[08:05] Where in the world are Kelly and Tim?[13:34] A lesson in how our environment shapes us.[19:12] Optimizing vital signs and range of motion as we age.[30:31] Walk and fidget more for better sleep and body maintenance.[40:37] Balance training: not just for “old” people.[50:51] Extending the end range of motion.[54:58] The old man shoe-on game.[59:50] The airport scanner shoulder test.[1:05:55] Simple corrective exercises.[1:09:44] Tower of London.[1:12:41] Breath as a mobilization device.[1:19:13] A reasonable amount of daily protein.[1:23:09] 800 grams of fruits and vegetables.[1:32:27] Never do nothing. But my something doesn’t have to be your something.[1:43:23] Cultivating cross-cultural, timeless movement in a busy world.[1:53:43] Who is Built To Move for?[1:58:54] Parting thoughts.MORE KELLY STARRETT QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“We want to more tightly conjoin our day-to-day processes with understanding who we are.”
— Kelly Starrett
“Joseph Pilates was not messing about.”
— Kelly Starrett
“In the Tower of London there was a torture device where you were kneeling. You put your chest on your legs, and then someone would screw a vice over your back, basically like a wishbone, and compress your back until you couldn’t breathe anymore. But I was like, that’s a clever way to get into the upper back. I’m going to try that. … and I discovered [it] was a really wonderful way to help get this global flexion of my back.”
— Kelly Starrett
“If you’re on your Peloton bike and you think you’re killing it, ask yourself, ‘Is there a position on this Peloton bike where I can take a bigger breath?’ And you’ll start to organize your body, and guess what? You’ll power more effectively. Because if we see better function of the body, we see better output of the body.”
— Kelly Starrett
“I didn’t even say ‘Eat organic bananas.’ I just said, ‘Whatever you can afford, whatever works in your socioeconomic system, is going to be a better health outcome than not getting enough protein and fruits and vegetables.'”
— Kelly Starrett
“The objective measurements — obesity, diabetes, chronic pain, persistent pain, injuries, surgery, depression — what we see is that those things are trending in negative ways. If fitness is a trillion-dollar industry, and we’re not making people fitter and expanding their fitness besides “I look great on Instagram with my abs,” just expanding that definition a little bit, then we have to start asking a different set of questions around this.”
— Kelly Starrett
“Be consistent before you’re heroic.”
— Kelly Starrett
“The glacial pace is the breakneck pace.”
— Kelly Starrett
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March 23, 2023
David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing,
Illustration via 99designs“Wealth is not a number. I don’t think it can be characterized very well by a number. It is the set of all transformations that you are capable of bringing about. That is your wealth. And if optimism is true, then there’s no limit to wealth.“
— David Deutsch
David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) is a visiting professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, a part of the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information and especially constructor theory, which he is proposing as a new way of formulating laws of nature. He is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity, and he is an advocate of the philosophy of Karl Popper.
Naval Ravikant (@naval) is the co-founder of Airchat and AngelList. He has invested in more than 100 companies, including many mega-successes, such as Twitter, Uber, Notion, Opendoor, Postmates, and Wish. You can see his latest musings on Airchat, and subscribe to Naval, his podcast on wealth and happiness, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also find his blog at nav.al.
For more Naval-plus-Tim, check out my wildly popular interview with him from 2015 (nominated for “Podcast of the Year”) and our conversation from 2020.
Naval also co-piloted the interviews with Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and famed investor Chris Dixon.
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Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#662: David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and MoreThis episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1 by Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.
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Want to hear another episode that ponders the nature of reality? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more.
#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with David Deutsch:Connect with Naval Ravikant:The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes — And Its Implications by David Deutsch | AmazonThe Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch | AmazonThe Beginning of Infinity, Part 1 (with Brett Hall) | Naval PodcastThe Beginning of Infinity, Part 2 (with Brett Hall) | Naval PodcastDavid Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and the Human Race | Naval PodcastDavid Deutsch: Chemical Scum That Dream of Distant Quasars | TED TalkThe Best Theory of Knowledge and Progress | Critical Rationalism HubToKCast | Brett HallScience | Airchat (Where Brett and Naval Discuss David’s work)Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper by Bryan Magee | AmazonAaron Stupple’s Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary on Philosophy and the Real World | AirchatThe Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto | AmazonInterviews with Chiara Marletto, David Deutsch, and Others About Constructor Theory | Logan ChipkinA New View of Children | Taking Children SeriouslyThe Four Strands of the Fabric of Reality | David DeutschThe Theory Of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe by Stephen W. Hawking | AmazonComputing Machinery and Intelligence by A.M. Turing | MindChurch–Turing–Deutsch Principle | WikipediaMultiverse | WikipediaGenetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Memetic Evolution (with Brett Hall) [Clip] | Naval PodcastEpistemology | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyScientific Method | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyIf You Say ‘Science Is Right,’ You’re Wrong | Scientific AmericanFamous Scientific Theories That Were Proven Wrong | Grunge1946 and All That | LSESummary of Popper’s Lectures at the LSE | Critical Rationalism BlogKarl Popper’s Falsification | BBC Radio 4“Summary: It’s Not Yet Known. But It Will Be.” | David Deutsch, TwitterLamarckism | Wikipedia“Lamarckism! 33 Years After It Had Become Untenable.” | David Deutsch, TwitterThe Many-Worlds Theory, Explained | The MIT Press ReaderCopenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyWhat is a Qubit? | Quantum Inspire‘Father of Quantum Computing’ Wins $3M Physics Prize | The GuardianShor’s Algorithm | IBM QuantumHow to Use Occam’s Razor without Getting Cut | Farnam StreetDavid Deutsch: A New Way to Explain Explanation | TED Talk“The Elephant’s Child” from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling | Lit2Go ETC“Science Must Begin with Myths…” -Karl R. Popper | GoodreadsCommon Sense | The Chicago School of Media TheoryIseult Gillespie: The Myth of Hades and Persephone | TED-EdWhat is Earth’s Axial Tilt? | Universe TodayThe Infinite Optimism of Physicist David Deutsch | Scientific American Blog NetworkDeus Ex Machina Explained | FandorHow to Travel Faster Than Light | FermilabHumans vs. Robots: The Difference Between AI and AGI | Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence MagazineParadox of Tolerance: To Tolerate or Not to Tolerate? | Academy 4SCQuarantine by Greg Egan | AmazonUnended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography by Karl Popper | AmazonDavid Deutsch: After Billions of Years of Monotony, the Universe Is Waking Up | TED TalkQuantum Computing Expert Explains How Humans Could Control the Whole Galaxy | InverseHow Do Crystals Form and Grow? | Geology PageThe Origin of Atmospheric Oxygen on Earth: The Innovation of Oxygenic Photosynthesis | PNASAntonio Stoppani’s ‘Anthropozoic’ in the Context of the Anthropocene | The British Journal for the History of ScienceWealth is Knowledge | David DeutschThe Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper | AmazonThe Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl R. Popper | Amazon2004: What’s Your Law? | Edge.orgA New Approach to Formulating Fundamental Laws in Physics | Constructor TheoryCalvin and Hobbes: Calvin Meet Calvin Meet Calvin | GoComicsRESOURCES PROVIDED BY NAVAL RAVIKANT Critical Rationalism Hub : A hub of relevant resources to learn all about our Critical Rationalism.ToKCast by Brett Hall: A podcast promoting optimism, unbounded progress and creative critical thinking using the best known explanations from fundamental physics and philosophy. Brett and Naval’s Podcasts on The Beginning of Infinity, Part 1, Part 2, and interview with David Deutsch.Airchat Science Channel where Brett and Naval discuss David’s work. Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper by Bryan MageeAaron Stupple’s room on Airchat goes through the book chapter-by-chapter with unique commentary.The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals by Chiara Marletto Logan Chipkin’s interviews with Chiara Marletto and other physicists working on constructor theoryTaking Children Seriously website: Everything TCS related from what to do during a unique situation to the deep underlying explanation binding such a parenting style.Talk by David Deutsch: Chemical Scum That Dream of Distant Quasars SHOW NOTES[08:03] The impact The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity have had on Naval.[10:07] The four strands.[13:04] Dispelling common misconceptions about science.[19:26] How does knowledge grow?[24:26] The benefits of understanding the four strands.[32:47] How quantum computing arose from trying to test a multiverse theory.[37:40] What a good explanation looks like.[42:43] How do conjecture and criticism give us a basis for optimism?[48:38] Translating knowledge into action.[51:20] Artificial intelligence (AI) vs. artificial general intelligence (AGI).[56:54] AGI is people! But how do we ensure it’ll be good people?[1:03:03] What’s taking AGI so long to get here?[1:08:59] Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars.[1:17:47] Are humans central to the universe, or just a sideshow?[1:20:17] Wealth and resources.[1:25:30] Recommended thinkers.[1:28:05] Taking Children Seriously, ToKCast, Critical Rationalists, and Popper 101.[1:31:55] David’s most interesting problems right now.[1:39:24] Parting thoughts.MORE DAVID DEUTSCH QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“In many ways, our institutions are wiser than we are. “
— David Deutsch
“AI [artificial intelligence] has nothing to do with AGI [artificial general intelligence]. It’s a completely different technology and it is in many ways the opposite of AGI … An AGI can do anything, whereas an AI can only do the narrow thing that it’s supposed to do.”
— David Deutsch
“Even the most careful scientific observation is all theory-laden, and theories are inherently fallible.”
— David Deutsch
“Good explanations begin with bad explanations. And you get there—between the bad explanation and the good explanation—by criticism, by conjecturing variance of the story, and then criticizing both them and the original story, and then choosing the one that survives the criticism, and then you can move on from there to a better thing.”
— David Deutsch
“Knowledge can live inside our DNA and our genes, and the genes that are correct and useful get replicated — not just in the universe, but possibly even in the multiverse.”
— David Deutsch
“Wealth is not a number. I don’t think it can be characterized very well by a number. It is the set of all transformations that you are capable of bringing about. That is your wealth. And if optimism is true, then there’s no limit to wealth.“
— David Deutsch
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March 16, 2023
How to Show up for Someone in a Crisis: 10 Recommendations
This is a guest post from Laurel Braitman, PhD, a writer and teacher and a secular, clinical chaplain-in-training. She received her doctorate in history and anthropology of science from MIT and is Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts Program, where she helps clinical students, staff, and physicians communicate more clearly and vulnerably for their own benefit and that of their patients. Laurel is also the founder of Writing Medicine, the global community of writing healthcare professionals.
Her last book, Animal Madness: Inside Their Minds was a New York Times bestseller and was translated into seven languages. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired, California Sunday, and National Geographic as well as on Radiolab, National Public Radio, and many other media outlets. She splits her time between rural Alaska and her family’s commercial citrus and avocado ranch in Southern California.
Her new book is What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love.
Life is nothing if not an endless buffet of dishes that are comprised of both disappointment and joy. For better or worse, I’ve had a lot of stuff happen that has given other people the chance to show up for me (or not). Things like deaths of close family members, bad diagnoses, natural disasters, divorce, but also the smaller stuff that sometimes hurts just as much: deaths of pets, breakups, lost jobs, a project turning out way worse than I had hoped, and more. Along the way, I’ve learned a bit about what feels good and what doesn’t in the wake of a big or small crisis. Obviously, it’s not the same for everyone, but here are 10 recommendations for how to show up for someone going through something shitty that I’ve learned firsthand:
1. The best way to show up for someone is to just show up. Don’t overthink what you’re going to do or say—or unleash the dreaded but well-intended “Let me know if I can help” (which only puts the burden on them). Just do something. Anything. Even if it’s sending a postcard that says “I’m so sorry.” Many more people than you’d think become frozen and don’t act during hard times because they’re scared of doing or saying the wrong thing. When in doubt, just admit that you are stumped. As in “I heard about XYZ. I have no idea what to say or how to support you. Just know that I’m thinking of you.”
2. Make it easy for the recipient of your act-of-kindness to receive it. Avoid making someone do any work. For example: Drop things off without coming inside and requiring someone to host you (unless they specifically ask for a visit). Offer help that doesn’t require them to share their schedule or hide a key (unless they offer). Instead, leave something on their doorstep that won’t spoil immediately (or if it will, stick it inside a cooler), send them something in the mail, or send an email with your thoughts but tell them in bold letters that you do not expect a reply. When you text or call, don’t ask for updates, and be sure to tell them you are not expecting a return phone call or text. You should also be crystal clear that they should not write you a thank-you note for anything you send their way. Odds are, when the storm passes, you will hear from this person, but if you don’t, assume that your kindness was appreciated.
3. Food is love. Just try to bring/send things that can be frozen and eaten later so they’re less likely to go to waste. I like Spoonful of Comfort, but there are a million options. Gift cards for grocery stores or food delivery can also be great. But if this requires the use of an app, make sure the recipient or someone they spend time with has the app installed on their phone and knows how to use it.
4. Distract them… fruitfully. Being a tiny bit avoidant during a crisis is extremely underrated. Refusing to focus on what is going on 24/7 doesn’t mean someone is in denial, it just means they might need to give their nervous system a break. TV is a great way to do this, but our infinite buffet of streaming services can be overwhelming. So offer someone a bespoke list of uplifting things to watch (I’ve found that podcasts and books are often too much to focus on). The series Ted Lasso is a great example of a crowd-pleaser, but the options are endless and should be tailored to the people you’re writing a list for. When my mom was dying, we watched Indian Matchmaker on Netflix, and it was perfect. A friend of mine swears by the Paddington movies. But maybe the person who’s getting your list is comforted by action movies or competitive cooking shows or the real-estate-reality genre. Just try to focus on their taste, not yours, and if they don’t have Amazon Prime or Apple TV+ or what-have-you, offer to get it for them.
5. Gift a subscription to a meditation app. Personally, I could not have gotten through the last few years without the Calm app. Even when doing a meditation was too much, listening to the music or nature sounds or the sleep stories has been fantastic. You can give someone a 30-day subscription or a full year. Other options are Relax Meditation, Bettersleep, and Headspace. As with the other stuff that requires some semblance of tech-savvy, make sure they can install it and know how to use it.
6. Thoughts are better than prayers. Unless you know someone specifically wants you to pray for them, don’t offer yours. Personally, despite being a very secular person, I love when people offer to pray for me or my loved ones—but I may be in the minority. To someone who is not religious, it can feel patronizing or belittling of their pain. A better phrase is “You’re in my thoughts.”
7. Refrain from silver linings. These are sentences that start with “At least…” or “Luckily….” The only thing worse than having a hard thing happen to you is having people try to force you to see the positive before you’re ready. Better options include “This is so hard.” “Tell me how you’re feeling, if you feel like it.” Or, best of all, just make kindly I’m-listening noises while they talk to encourage them to keep going.
8. Stuff. I know it’s very American to suggest capitalistic solutions to emotional pain, but here we are, and I do love stuff, lol. The following have brought me and folks I adore pleasure when things have felt overwhelming:
Nodpod Weighted eye mask : Sleep can be elusive when you are worried that life as you know it is over. Spending 34 dollars on an eye mask may seem insane, but it’s so soft, and the weight is magical. It’s like a lullaby for your face. Kneipp bath oils : There is something about turning your bathwater green or blue or purple and sinking into a cloud of non-fussy, herby scent that pauses your shrieking internal voices for a second. These oils aren’t cheap, but they’re not super expensive either. I prefer the sampler packs so I can customize them to my mood. My favorite scents are Beauty Secret, Lavender, and Goodbye Stress. A birdfeeder . Truly any kind that works for their yard/balcony/window (and is visible from a favorite area of the home) is great. Wildbirds Unlimited has good options and they can tell you what food is best for a given area, but don’t overthink this. If the feeder ends up being for squirrels, that’s fine too. They’re very entertaining (see this unicorn feeder if you doubt me). A feeder is nature’s streaming service and will provide endless hours of programming that remind you that you are part of something larger and that whatever you are going through is part of the cycle of life, even if it feels like crap.9. Invite someone on a walk. A friend or acquaintance going through a hard thing may not have the stamina or desire to go out to a restaurant or attend even the smallest of gatherings. It takes too much energy to explain what’s going on in their life… and crises have a way of making people enraged by the small talk often required at such events. A walk is easier. You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to—which makes it low-lift social time, and it also gets someone a bit of fresh air.
10. Be the last one to leave. Whether it’s a death, divorce, breakup, lost job, pet gone missing, a life-altering diagnosis, a home destroyed, or something else—the person or people you’re showing up for will really appreciate your showing up again six months or a year or many years(!) after the fact. In the wake of a loss, the field can be crowded, but with every passing day, the world seems to remember what happened less and less. Life moves on, as it should. But that doesn’t mean the loss is any less acute for the person or people who suffered it. Send someone a text on the birthday of their lost loved one. Or on any holiday whatsoever. Share memories of the person, place, or creature without being asked. Remind someone that what mattered to them still matters to you. That it always will.
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Showing up for someone else is the best medicine for YOU. I am a dog who needs a job or I’m liable to chew off my tail. And my favorite job is making someone feel marginally less alone. Maybe yours is fixing bikes or being good at returning phone calls or thrifting things your friends will love. All of these count. I’m not always great at showing up for others, and like most acts of service, it comes from a selfish place (wanting to feel good and less alone myself), but that doesn’t make it suspect or any less valuable. We all need meaning in our days. Being the kind of person who is useful in a crisis (whether it’s via frozen lasagna, a handwritten note, offering rides or childcare, or taking a heartbroken friend on a walk to feed pigeons or scream at the sky) is something we should all aspire to—the type of gift that gives both ways.
Laurel Braitman is the author of What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love . Her website is LaurelBraitman.com .
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March 14, 2023
Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity, Optimizing Protein, Alcohol Rules, Lessons from Glucose Monitoring with CGMs, Boosting Your VO2 Max, Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, Early Cancer Detection, How to Use DEXA Scans, Nature’s Longevity Drug,
Illustration via 99designs“To understand what it means to live longer, you have to understand what ends life.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
Peter Attia, MD (@PeterAttiaMD), is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of lengthening their lifespan and simultaneously improving their healthspan. He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine.
Dr. Attia received his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine and trained for five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including Resident of the Year. He spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma.
His new book is Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (3/28).
Please enjoy!
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Watch the interview on YouTube here.
Brought to you by Wealthfront high-yield savings account, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and Shopify global commerce platform providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business.
The transcript of this episode can be found here. Transcripts of all episodes can be found here.
Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#661: Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity, Optimizing Protein, Alcohol Rules, Lessons from Glucose Monitoring with CGMs, Boosting Your VO2 Max, Preventing Alzheimer's Disease, Early Cancer Detection, How to Use DEXA Scans, Nature’s Longevity Drug, and MoreThis episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the best overall mattress of 2022 by GQ magazine, Wired, and Apartment Therapy. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering 20% off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim.
This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront is an app that helps you save and invest your money. Right now, you can earn 4.05% APY—that’s the Annual Percentage Yield—with the Wealthfront Cash Account. That’s more than twelve times more interest than if you left your money in a savings account at the average bank, according to FDIC.gov.
It takes just a few minutes to sign up, and then you’ll immediately start earning 4.05% interest on your savings. And when you open an account today, you’ll get an extra fifty-dollar bonus with a deposit of five hundred dollars or more. Visit Wealthfront.com/Tim to get started.
This episode is brought to you by Shopify! Shopify is one of my favorite platforms and one of my favorite companies. Shopify is designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business. In no time flat, you can have a great-looking online store that brings your ideas to life, and you can have the tools to manage your day-to-day and drive sales. No coding or design experience required.
Go to shopify.com/Tim to sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period. It’s a great deal for a great service, so I encourage you to check it out. Take your business to the next level today by visiting shopify.com/Tim .
Want to hear Peter’s last time on the show? Listen to this conversation in which we discuss liquid biopsies, the four pillars of exercise someone seeking to improve their metabolic health should understand, methods for remedying modern posture problems, raising kids to be habitually active adults, the three levers of Peter’s nutritional framework, increasing scientific literacy, current pharmacological candidates for extending lifespan and healthspan, everything you ever wanted to know about zone two training, and much more.
#517: Dr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to PullWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Dr. Peter Attia:Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia | Amazon Engineer Your Own Personalized Longevity Playbook | Early MedicalThe Peter Attia Drive PodcastDr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to Pull | The Tim Ferriss Show #517Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Performance, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #398Dr. Peter Attia vs. Tim Ferriss | The Tim Ferriss Show #352Dr. Peter Attia on Life-Extension, Drinking Jet Fuel, Ultra-Endurance, Human Foie Gras, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #50DEXA Scan (DXA): Bone Density Test, What Is It and How It’s Done | Cleveland ClinicAssessment of Lean Mass and Physical Performance in Sarcopenia | Journal of Clinical DensitometryFat-Free Mass Index (FFMI) Calculator | Omni CalculatorAMA #11: All Things Fasting | The Peter Attia Drive #89How Much Protein Should You Eat? | Peter AttiaFood Sources for Nine Essential Amino Acids | Food UnfoldedThe Smart Diet Coaching App | Carbon5 Proven Benefits of Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) | HealthlinemTOR (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin) | WikipediaLacto-Ovo-Vegetarian Diet: Benefits, Downsides, and Meal Plan | HealthlineWhat is Ketosis? The Science Explained. | Peter AttiaJocko Willink, Retired Navy SEAL: Objective, Strategy, and Tactics, Leadership, Protocols, Dealing With Death, and Applying the Many Lessons Learned from War | The Peter Attia Drive #55USA Causes of Death by Age and Gender | World Life ExpectancyAMA #41: Medicine 3.0, Developments in the Field of Aging, Healthy Habits in Times of Stress, and More | The Peter Attia Drive #231The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonStaying Safe from COVID-19 | Johns Hopkins MedicineWhat If Moore’s Law Applied to Humans as Well? | The Washington PostMedicine 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 | Peter Attia, TwitterFunny Medicine: Hippocrates and the Four Humours | GaviScientific Method | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyRichard Feynman Teaches You the Scientific Method | Farnam StreetDirty Doctors Finished What an Assassin’s Bullet Started: Disregarding New Scientific Information Can Be Deadly | Scientific AmericanTreatments for HIV/AIDS | Stanford Health CareTreating Hepatitis C | American Liver FoundationNixon’s War on Cancer: Why It Mattered | Fred Hutch Cancer CenterNeurodegenerative Diseases | NIEHSWhat is ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)? | The ALS AssociationHuntington’s Disease | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeIs Diabetes Becoming the Biggest Epidemic of the 21st Century? | International Journal of Health SciencesStudy Design 101: Randomized Controlled Trial | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryReading Mendelian Randomisation Studies: A Guide, Glossary, and Checklist for Clinicians | BMJWhat Is ApoB? | Pritkin Longevity CenterWeekly Emails Archives | Peter AttiaStudying the Studies Archives | Peter AttiaStudy Design 101: Cohort Study | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryObservational Studies: Epidemiology | Research Guides at Pennsylvania College of TechnologyResearch Explained in Practical Summaries (REPS) | BiolayneThe Man Who Tries Methods, Ignoring Principles, Is Sure to Have Trouble | Quote InvestigatorHow to Learn Any Language in Three Months | Tim FerrissAMA #30: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies | The Peter Attia Drive #188Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre | AmazonHills Criteria of CausationBradford Hill Criteria | WikipediaYou’re Blowing Smoke up My Ass, Right? | The BookwormeryHow to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff | AmazonDr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep | The Tim Ferriss Show #650That Sleep Tracker Could Make Your Insomnia Worse | The New York TimesAlcohol Archives | Peter AttiaSleep & Alcohol: Part 1 | The Matt Walker PodcastSleep & Alcohol: Part 2 | The Matt Walker PodcastNutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies | AmazonHow to Use a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to Optimize Your Nutrition (Clip) | The Tim Ferriss ShowDexcom Continuous Glucose Monitoring | DexcomFreeStyle Libre 2 Continuous Glucose Monitor | Abbott USDietary Carbohydrate Restriction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome: Time for a Critical Appraisal | Nutrition & MetabolismAll About Your A1C | CDCRaisinets | AmazonExercise Can Raise Blood Glucose (Blood Sugar) | ADAHostel 2 | Prime VideoWall Street | Prime VideoHawthorne Effect: How It Works and Is It Real? | InvestopediaVO2 Max: How to Measure and Improve It | Cleveland ClinicMuscle Fiber Type Transitions with Exercise Training | NCBIStrength Training Can Help Protect the Brain from Degeneration | The University of SydneyConcentric, Isometric, and Eccentric Training | Athletic LabBest Hamstring Exercise: Nordic Hamstring Curl to Reduce Risk of Injury | Muscle and MotionHow to Do a Hip Hinge | Verywell FitTip: Axial Loading – What You Need to Know | T-NationTop Five Hand Strengthening Exercises For Stronger Hands | Virtual Hand CareWhat is Rucking? | GORUCKTraining Zones Explained | ACTIVEBlood Lactate Measurements and Analysis during Exercise: A Guide for Clinicians | Journal of Diabetes Science and TechnologyThe Beginner’s Gear Guide for Ski Touring or Skinning | InsiderThe Rucking Company | GORUCKWeighted Vest Vs. Rucking | Weight Loss Made PracticalThe Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter | AmazonCognitive Health and Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention | Peter AttiaPhysical Exercise and Dementia | Alzheimer’s SocietyBrain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Key Molecule for Memory in the Healthy and the Pathological Brain | Frontiers In Cellular NeuroscienceA New Frontier for Early Cancer Detection? Discussing the Grail Blood Test. | Peter AttiaWhole Body MRI Scans | PrenuvoAlzheimer’s Genes: Are You at Risk? | Mayo ClinicCystatin C | National Kidney FoundationCreatinine | National Kidney FoundationFOLFOX Regimen | NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsBreast Cancer Hormone Receptor Status | Estrogen ReceptorGuy Winch, Ph.D.: Emotional First Aid and How To Treat Psychological Injuries | The Peter Attia Drive #146Stuart Smalley’s Daily Affirmation | SNLTheranos: A Fallen Unicorn | InvestopediaSHOW NOTES[07:00] How and why Peter’s muscle mass has increased significantly.[18:48] Why the long wait for Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity ?[23:19] Objective, strategy, and tactics.[28:50] From Medicine 1.0 to Medicine 3.0. [39:04] Randomized control trial results: guidelines, not gospel.[43:21] Revisiting why and how one should increase their medical literacy.[52:44] Avoiding scientific method misconceptions.[55:43] Austin Bradford Hill.[56:22] Observational study versus randomized control trial.[1:00:09] Are sleep trackers downgrading the quality of our sleep?[1:02:53] Under what conditions does Peter feel alcohol might be worth its downsides?[1:06:47] Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs).[1:18:24] Underutilized metrics and tools for expanding health and lifespan.[1:25:01] Strength.[1:33:11] Rucking around and finding out about VO2 max.[1:38:32] Finding the zone two sweet spot.[1:41:10] How skinning and rucking have upped my endurance.[1:42:24] Rucking vs. weighted vests.[1:46:39] Are neurodegenerative diseases preventable?[1:51:47] Helping your doctor understand and embrace Medicine 3.0.[1:53:47] How much is an ounce of prevention worth to you?[1:58:23] Early cancer screening.[2:06:33] Outlive chapters.[2:08:46] The chapter on emotional health that almost didn’t make the book.[2:10:16] Peter’s 47 affirmations.[2:14:18] Parting thoughts.MORE PETER ATTIA QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Despite what a lot of the epidemiology will tell people, alcohol is not good for you in any dose. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t drink it at all, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking it’s actually healthy at some low dose. It’s not.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“My response to alcohol is, if I drink something that doesn’t taste incredible, I pour it out. I’m never going to tolerate a bad glass of wine, ever. It’s just not worth it.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Seven drinks in one day is very different than one drink a day for seven days. It’s the frequency and dose that defines the poison.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Not one to just clear the bar, I want to be considerably above the bar.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“To understand what it means to live longer, you have to understand what ends life.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“When I went to medical school, I didn’t learn a single thing about nutrition or exercise or sleep or stress management or emotional health. I learned a lot about pharmacology. And it’s tempting at this point to say, ‘Well, pharmacology is either good or bad.’ No, it’s both, right? Pharmacology is good and it’s really valuable, but over-indexing it is bad.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Sometimes more data is not always the answer.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Any measurement in isolation can be ridiculous and can be gamed. We shouldn’t ignore blood glucose any more than we should ignore body weight or body fat or body composition. We just have to understand that it’s one of many tools that we can look at.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“To get into that top 2.5 percent of the population where you really start to see an enormous gap between you and everybody else in terms of lifespan, yeah, maybe only a quarter of the population has the potential to get there. But the point is everybody has the potential to be more fit than they are, outside of people who are already doing everything they can. So just going from being in the bottom 25 percent of the population to the 25th to 50th percentile of the population cuts your risk of all-cause mortality in half at any point in time. There’s nothing that compares to that.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
The post Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity, Optimizing Protein, Alcohol Rules, Lessons from Glucose Monitoring with CGMs, Boosting Your VO2 Max, Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, Early Cancer Detection, How to Use DEXA Scans, Nature’s Longevity Drug, and More (#661) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity (#661)
Illustration via 99designs“To understand what it means to live longer, you have to understand what ends life.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
Peter Attia, MD (@PeterAttiaMD), is the founder of Early Medical, a medical practice that applies the principles of Medicine 3.0 to patients with the goal of lengthening their lifespan and simultaneously improving their healthspan. He is the host of The Drive, one of the most popular podcasts covering the topics of health and medicine.
Dr. Attia received his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine and trained for five years at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery, where he was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including Resident of the Year. He spent two years at the National Institutes of Health as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where his research focused on immune-based therapies for melanoma.
His new book is Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity (3/28).
Please enjoy!
Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Podcast Addict, Pocket Casts, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon Music, or on your favorite podcast platform. Watch the interview on YouTube here.
Brought to you by Wealthfront high-yield savings account, Helix Sleep premium mattresses, and Shopify global commerce platform providing tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business.
Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#661: Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of LongevityThis episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was selected as the #1 overall mattress of 2020 by GQ magazine, Wired, Apartment Therapy, and many others. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering 20% off all mattress orders plus two free pillows at HelixSleep.com/Tim.
This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront is an app that helps you save and invest your money. Right now, you can earn 4.05% APY—that’s the Annual Percentage Yield—with the Wealthfront Cash Account. That’s more than twelve times more interest than if you left your money in a savings account at the average bank, according to FDIC.gov.
It takes just a few minutes to sign up, and then you’ll immediately start earning 4.05% interest on your savings. And when you open an account today, you’ll get an extra fifty-dollar bonus with a deposit of five hundred dollars or more. Visit Wealthfront.com/Tim to get started.
This episode is brought to you by Shopify! Shopify is one of my favorite platforms and one of my favorite companies. Shopify is designed for anyone to sell anywhere, giving entrepreneurs the resources once reserved for big business. In no time flat, you can have a great-looking online store that brings your ideas to life, and you can have the tools to manage your day-to-day and drive sales. No coding or design experience required.
Go to shopify.com/Tim to sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period. It’s a great deal for a great service, so I encourage you to check it out. Take your business to the next level today by visiting shopify.com/Tim .
Want to hear Peter’s last time on the show? Listen to this conversation in which we discuss liquid biopsies, the four pillars of exercise someone seeking to improve their metabolic health should understand, methods for remedying modern posture problems, raising kids to be habitually active adults, the three levers of Peter’s nutritional framework, increasing scientific literacy, current pharmacological candidates for extending lifespan and healthspan, everything you ever wanted to know about zone two training, and much more.
#517: Dr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to PullWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
SCROLL BELOW FOR LINKS AND SHOW NOTES…
SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Dr. Peter Attia:Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia | Amazon Engineer Your Own Personalized Longevity Playbook | Early MedicalThe Peter Attia Drive PodcastDr. Peter Attia on Longevity Drugs, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the 3 Most Important Levers to Pull | The Tim Ferriss Show #517Peter Attia, M.D. — Fasting, Metformin, Athletic Performance, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #398Dr. Peter Attia vs. Tim Ferriss | The Tim Ferriss Show #352Dr. Peter Attia on Life-Extension, Drinking Jet Fuel, Ultra-Endurance, Human Foie Gras, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #50DEXA Scan (DXA): Bone Density Test, What Is It and How It’s Done | Cleveland ClinicAssessment of Lean Mass and Physical Performance in Sarcopenia | Journal of Clinical DensitometryFat-Free Mass Index (FFMI) Calculator | Omni CalculatorAMA #11: All Things Fasting | The Peter Attia Drive #89How Much Protein Should You Eat? | Peter AttiaFood Sources for Nine Essential Amino Acids | Food UnfoldedThe Smart Diet Coaching App | Carbon5 Proven Benefits of Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs) | HealthlinemTOR (Mechanistic Target of Rapamycin) | WikipediaLacto-Ovo-Vegetarian Diet: Benefits, Downsides, and Meal Plan | HealthlineWhat is Ketosis? The Science Explained. | Peter AttiaJocko Willink, Retired Navy SEAL: Objective, Strategy, and Tactics, Leadership, Protocols, Dealing With Death, and Applying the Many Lessons Learned from War | The Peter Attia Drive #55USA Causes of Death by Age and Gender | World Life ExpectancyAMA #41: Medicine 3.0, Developments in the Field of Aging, Healthy Habits in Times of Stress, and More | The Peter Attia Drive #231The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss | AmazonStaying Safe from COVID-19 | Johns Hopkins MedicineWhat If Moore’s Law Applied to Humans as Well? | The Washington PostMedicine 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 | Peter Attia, TwitterFunny Medicine: Hippocrates and the Four Humours | GaviScientific Method | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyRichard Feynman Teaches You the Scientific Method | Farnam StreetDirty Doctors Finished What an Assassin’s Bullet Started: Disregarding New Scientific Information Can Be Deadly | Scientific AmericanTreatments for HIV/AIDS | Stanford Health CareTreating Hepatitis C | American Liver FoundationNixon’s War on Cancer: Why It Mattered | Fred Hutch Cancer CenterNeurodegenerative Diseases | NIEHSWhat is ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)? | The ALS AssociationHuntington’s Disease | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeIs Diabetes Becoming the Biggest Epidemic of the 21st Century? | International Journal of Health SciencesStudy Design 101: Randomized Controlled Trial | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryReading Mendelian Randomisation Studies: A Guide, Glossary, and Checklist for Clinicians | BMJWhat Is ApoB? | Pritkin Longevity CenterWeekly Emails Archives | Peter AttiaStudying the Studies Archives | Peter AttiaStudy Design 101: Cohort Study | The Himmelfarb Health Sciences LibraryObservational Studies: Epidemiology | Research Guides at Pennsylvania College of TechnologyResearch Explained in Practical Summaries (REPS) | BiolayneThe Man Who Tries Methods, Ignoring Principles, Is Sure to Have Trouble | Quote InvestigatorHow to Learn Any Language in Three Months | Tim FerrissAMA #30: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies | The Peter Attia Drive #188Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre | AmazonHills Criteria of CausationBradford Hill Criteria | WikipediaYou’re Blowing Smoke up My Ass, Right? | The BookwormeryHow to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff | AmazonDr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep — How to Improve Sleep, How Sleep Ties Into Alzheimer’s Disease and Weight Gain, and How Medications (Ambien, Trazodone, etc.), Caffeine, THC/CBD, Psychedelics, Exercise, Smart Drugs, Fasting, and More Affect Sleep | The Tim Ferriss Show #650That Sleep Tracker Could Make Your Insomnia Worse | The New York TimesAlcohol Archives | Peter AttiaSleep & Alcohol: Part 1 | The Matt Walker PodcastSleep & Alcohol: Part 2 | The Matt Walker PodcastNutter Butter Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies | AmazonHow to Use a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to Optimize Your Nutrition (Clip) | The Tim Ferriss ShowDexcom Continuous Glucose Monitoring | DexcomFreeStyle Libre 2 Continuous Glucose Monitor | Abbott USDietary Carbohydrate Restriction in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome: Time for a Critical Appraisal | Nutrition & MetabolismAll About Your A1C | CDCRaisinets | AmazonExercise Can Raise Blood Glucose (Blood Sugar) | ADAHostel 2 | Prime VideoWall Street | Prime VideoHawthorne Effect: How It Works and Is It Real? | InvestopediaVO2 Max: How to Measure and Improve It | Cleveland ClinicMuscle Fiber Type Transitions with Exercise Training | NCBIStrength Training Can Help Protect the Brain from Degeneration | The University of SydneyConcentric, Isometric, and Eccentric Training | Athletic LabBest Hamstring Exercise: Nordic Hamstring Curl to Reduce Risk of Injury | Muscle and MotionHow to Do a Hip Hinge | Verywell FitTip: Axial Loading – What You Need to Know | T-NationTop Five Hand Strengthening Exercises For Stronger Hands | Virtual Hand CareWhat is Rucking? | GORUCKTraining Zones Explained | ACTIVEBlood Lactate Measurements and Analysis during Exercise: A Guide for Clinicians | Journal of Diabetes Science and TechnologyThe Beginner’s Gear Guide for Ski Touring or Skinning | InsiderThe Rucking Company | GORUCKWeighted Vest Vs. Rucking | Weight Loss Made PracticalThe Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter | AmazonCognitive Health and Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention | Peter AttiaPhysical Exercise and Dementia | Alzheimer’s SocietyBrain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor: A Key Molecule for Memory in the Healthy and the Pathological Brain | Frontiers In Cellular NeuroscienceA New Frontier for Early Cancer Detection? Discussing the Grail Blood Test. | Peter AttiaWhole Body MRI Scans | PrenuvoAlzheimer’s Genes: Are You at Risk? | Mayo ClinicCystatin C | National Kidney FoundationCreatinine | National Kidney FoundationFOLFOX Regimen | NCI Dictionary of Cancer TermsBreast Cancer Hormone Receptor Status | Estrogen ReceptorGuy Winch, Ph.D.: Emotional First Aid and How To Treat Psychological Injuries | The Peter Attia Drive #146Stuart Smalley’s Daily Affirmation | SNLTheranos: A Fallen Unicorn | InvestopediaSHOW NOTES[07:00] How and why Peter’s muscle mass has increased significantly.[18:48] Why the long wait for Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity ?[23:19] Objective, strategy, and tactics.[28:50] From Medicine 1.0 to Medicine 3.0. [39:04] Randomized control trial results: guidelines, not gospel.[43:21] Revisiting why and how one should increase their medical literacy.[52:44] Avoiding scientific method misconceptions.[55:43] Austin Bradford Hill.[56:22] Observational study versus randomized control trial.[1:00:09] Are sleep trackers downgrading the quality of our sleep?[1:02:53] Under what conditions does Peter feel alcohol might be worth its downsides?[1:06:47] Continuous glucose monitors (CGMs).[1:18:24] Underutilized metrics and tools for expanding health and lifespan.[1:25:01] Strength.[1:33:11] Rucking around and finding out about VO2 max.[1:38:32] Finding the zone two sweet spot.[1:41:10] How skinning and rucking have upped my endurance.[1:42:24] Rucking vs. weighted vests.[1:46:39] Are neurodegenerative diseases preventable?[1:51:47] Helping your doctor understand and embrace Medicine 3.0.[1:53:47] How much is an ounce of prevention worth to you?[1:58:23] Early cancer screening.[2:06:33] Outlive chapters.[2:08:46] The chapter on emotional health that almost didn’t make the book.[2:10:16] Peter’s 47 affirmations.[2:14:18] Parting thoughts.MORE PETER ATTIA QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Despite what a lot of the epidemiology will tell people, alcohol is not good for you in any dose. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t drink it at all, but let’s not delude ourselves into thinking it’s actually healthy at some low dose. It’s not.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“My response to alcohol is, if I drink something that doesn’t taste incredible, I pour it out. I’m never going to tolerate a bad glass of wine, ever. It’s just not worth it.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Seven drinks in one day is very different than one drink a day for seven days. It’s the frequency and dose that defines the poison.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Not one to just clear the bar, I want to be considerably above the bar.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“To understand what it means to live longer, you have to understand what ends life.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“When I went to medical school, I didn’t learn a single thing about nutrition or exercise or sleep or stress management or emotional health. I learned a lot about pharmacology. And it’s tempting at this point to say, ‘Well, pharmacology is either good or bad.’ No, it’s both, right? Pharmacology is good and it’s really valuable, but over-indexing it is bad.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Sometimes more data is not always the answer.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“Any measurement in isolation can be ridiculous and can be gamed. We shouldn’t ignore blood glucose any more than we should ignore body weight or body fat or body composition. We just have to understand that it’s one of many tools that we can look at.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
“To get into that top 2.5 percent of the population where you really start to see an enormous gap between you and everybody else in terms of lifespan, yeah, maybe only a quarter of the population has the potential to get there. But the point is everybody has the potential to be more fit than they are, outside of people who are already doing everything they can. So just going from being in the bottom 25 percent of the population to the 25th to 50th percentile of the population cuts your risk of all-cause mortality in half at any point in time. There’s nothing that compares to that.”
— Dr. Peter Attia
PEOPLE MENTIONEDHerculesDavid SabatiniBill PearlEd ThorpHippocratesFrancis BaconRichard P. FeynmanIgnaz SemmelweisRobert KochJoseph ListerRichard M. NixonParacelsusRobert KaplanLayne NortonRalph Waldo EmersonBen GoldacreAustin Bradford HillDarrell HuffGordon GekkoLance ArmstrongJason J. McCarthyMichael Easter | TwitterDaniel PalencharBill GiffordHugh JackmanStuart SmalleyThe post Dr. Peter Attia — The Science and Art of Longevity (#661) appeared first on The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
March 8, 2023
Dr. Andrew Huberman — The Foundations of Physical and Mental Performance, Core Supplements, Sexual Health and Fertility, Sleep Optimization, Psychedelics, and More (#660)
Illustrion via 99designs“Sleep, nutrients, exercise, light, relationships—those really establish the foundation of what I consider to be all of the elements that create our ability to move as seamlessly as possible between the states that we happen to be in and the states we desire to be in.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
Andrew Huberman, PhD (@hubermanlab), is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford Medicine has been consistently published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell.
Andrew is the host of the podcast Huberman Lab, which is often ranked as one of the top five podcasts in the world by both Apple and Spotify. The show aims to help viewers and listeners improve their health with science and science-based tools. New episodes air every Monday on YouTube and all podcast platforms.
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Just say no.[2:20:50] Concerns about cannabis.[2:29:46] Changing thoughts on psychedelics.[2:36:31] Raising research funds with Huberman Lab premium.[2:40:12] Andrew’s clinical psychedelic experiences.[2:48:15] A reminder not to trust street drugs, kids.[2:49:15] The exciting, seemingly endless applications of psychedelic research.[2:55:45] Parting thoughts.MORE ANDREW HUBERMAN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“If we don’t actually take the time to figure out what’s going on in our head, how can we really trust that we’re on the best path?”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
“Sleep, nutrients, exercise, light, relationships—those really establish the foundation of what I consider to be all of the elements that create our ability to move as seamlessly as possible between the states that we happen to be in and the states we desire to be in.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
“The state that we’re in on Monday has a lot to do with what we did on Sunday.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
“If you’re on a plane and you’re bouncing your knee, it’s actually a meaningful—it’s not a replacement for exercise, but in terms of its metabolic impact, is meaningful. I find that really interesting and perhaps of all the things that we’ll discuss today, if you’re unwilling to try that, then your bar for entry is just way too high.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
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March 3, 2023
Revisiting Warren Buffett’s Advice to Me in 2008 (Plus: 7 Lessons for Young Investors)
“The four most expensive words in the English language are ‘this time it’s different.’”
— Sir John Marks Templeton, dubbed “the greatest global stock picker of the century” in 1999
An old video recently resurfaced on social media. It’s yours truly asking Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger a question at the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting:
“Hi, my name is Timothy Ferriss, and I’m a Guest Lecturer at Princeton University twice a year…”
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Before @tferriss was “Tim,” a slightly nervous “Timothy” asked Charlie & Warren in 08 to advise a newly successful 30-yr old, non-investment professional how best to invest.
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I was intensely nervous, as the quavering voice makes clear.
This clip went viral, and a number of media outlets (Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, etc.) reached out to me for comment, asking questions like “What advice would you give a 30-year-old now who’d just amassed their first million?”
Given space constraints, my full answers couldn’t be included.
I decided to write this blog post to share some expanded thoughts.
First things first: how on earth did I actually get a coveted mic and ask the Oracle of Omaha a question? It took some planning. Here’s the full story and strategy. For those interested, I also shared my highlighted notes from the event.
The first headline and subhead of the recent WSJ piece looked like this when I saw it:
Fair enough. I’ve studied Warren for a long time, read nearly all of his letters, and invested a lot according to his principles, so this made sense.
But then we have this curious development…
Since the above headline was used in the print edition, I’ll quickly clarify a few things.
The WSJ piece makes some great points and highlights hubris we all need to watch for in ourselves, but I do not identify as a Warren Buffett wannabe.
In fairness, the piece doesn’t directly describe me as such, but casual readers might conclude that based on the headline. I have indeed modeled him for a lot, and I highly recommend the books Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger and A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren Buffett, even if you don’t consider yourself an investor. But I don’t aspire to be Buffett in all things. I’ve also strongly advised against anyone trying to copy my investing approach with tech, so I’m more anti-cheerleader than cheerleader.
But perhaps most important, the print edition stated, “Mr. Ferriss ignored these pearls of wisdom [to invest in low-cost index funds].” The WSJ was kind enough to update the digital version, but in case you missed it, here’s the correction: I did put a decent portion of my money into low-cost index funds, as I fully accepted I was an amateur in public equities and had no competitive advantage. For me, this is true in almost all asset classes.
There is one exception. I decided to “go pro” with early-stage angel investing in tech. That ended up returning far more than if I had put all of my savings in a low-cost index fund in 2008.
I would highly advise against this for 99.99% of people, but I did approach it systematically, and I’ll share more on that below. It’s also worth reading The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, which will give you an idea of how this world functions, how the economics work or don’t work, and what assumptions are made with investment strategies. Particularly for angel investors who don’t have the benefit of receiving management fees, “wins” generally mean that you end up with a substantial portion of your net-worth in 1–3 companies.
Is that anti-Buffett? Nope. In the same 2008 meeting, Buffett repeated a few things that he’s said and written many times in some form, including:
“Diversification is for the know-nothing investor.”
“There have been several times I had 75% of my net worth in one situation.”
“I mean, you will see things that …—if you’re working with smaller sums—it would be a mistake not to have half your net worth in.”
But… these only apply if you are willing to do a lot of heavy lifting.
If someone asked me to give investing advice to a 30-year-old today who had just made their first million, I would first point them somewhere else. I’m not a financial advisor and don’t think I’m qualified to give anyone financial advice. The particulars matter too much. But if they insisted, I might say:
(1) If you want to play in early-stage tech investing (or anything high-risk, high-reward), ensure you have a plan for developing an ENORMOUS informational advantage. Aim to develop new skills and relationships through portfolio companies so that you can win over time, even if you “fail” with many bets going to zero. Only bet what you are comfortable losing and what you can recoup in other ways. Though my angel investing snowballed, I began with $10K checks and advising for sweat equity. Think of this as tuition for a real-world MBA. Are you willing to move to the hub of activity to ensure the best possible information and deal flow, as I did when I moved to SF lifetimes ago? Or make commensurate commitments or sacrifices to ensure you are in a position to win? If not, I’d suggest choosing a different game. Other people will take the initiatives that you won’t, and they will beat you. Much of early-stage investing is cooperative, but let’s not kid ourselves, a lot of it is competitive, and not everyone will podium finish.
(2) For the rest—which could be everything—follow Buffett’s advice. Keep it simple.
One cautionary example of doing the opposite: I spotted the COVID curve ball early, and I made a lot of very “sophisticated” (complicated) decisions related to investing, and the associated research, diligence, phone calls, and so on chewed up an unbelievable amount of time and energy. Eighteen to twenty-four months later, I’d done very well but decided to look at how passive S&P 500 returns would’ve added up over the same period, and… they were roughly the same. Of course, you can’t always bank on this outcome, but beware of seeking complexity if you’ve been rewarded for problem-solving throughout your life. Looking back over the last 15+ years, the handful of investment decisions that made all the difference have been simple and were somewhat obvious to me, no major gear-grinding required.
(3) Knowing when to buy isn’t enough. Have policies and rules for when you will sell, or the universe will punish you with very bad and very expensive decisions.
(4) Don’t discount luck, including lucky timing. I started angel investing seriously in 2008 and hit a golden window of converging trends, cheap valuations (by today’s standards), and an uncrowded playing field. The financial crisis had culled the herd of a ton of investors and fair-weather founders. It was a target-rich environment, even for someone with very little to invest. Micro-VCs were just cracking out of their shells, and the big players hadn’t started assailing the seed stage stuff. In retrospect, it was a wildly rare combo of things. I don’t believe I could replicate what I did in 2008–2012 now.
(5) Personally, I’ve largely stepped back from angel investing to double down on writing and the podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show, soon to hit 1B downloads). This comes from a desire for more predictability and less stress. I love the excitement of startups, and I’ve had some lucky wins, but I don’t find it nearly as interesting as developing creative muscles that bring in forecastable revenue year after year. For me, that has compounded more reliably than the all-or-nothing bets. Massive ups and downs in sectors like crypto also take a toll that reduces my creative batteries. In this chapter of my life, I think simplicity is the name of the game (e.g., finding one decision that removes 100 decisions).
(6) Over-optimizing is just as bad, if not worse, than under-optimizing. Past a certain point, buying extra Skittles just doesn’t fucking matter. So, a note to self: stop fiddling around with your goddamn spreadsheets and get more interesting hobbies on the calendar. What hobbies? Exactly.
(7) If we assume the point of investing is ultimately to improve your quality of life and the quality of life of those you most care about, investments that consistently add stress over long periods of time probably don’t make sense. Money is traded for things or experiences that catalyze certain feelings. If your investments are generating the opposite spectrum of feelings, it might be time to reassess.
It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees. Money is a means, not an end.
And in the end, most things matter very, very little. Do what helps you sleep at night and wake up with a low heart rate. To me, those are the hallmarks of a world-class investor who gets the big picture.
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Michael Mauboussin — How Great Investors Make Decisions, Harnessing The Wisdom (vs. Madness) of Crowds, Lessons from Race Horses, and More (#659)
Illustration via 99designs“Wall Street, even to this day, is replete with lots of rules of thumb and sort of old wives’ tales and shorthands for how to do things. And some of these things, when I would sit there and listen to them and try to cobble it all together, just didn’t make sense. And so for me it was this idea of the beginner’s mind and really saying, ‘How does this stuff really work?'”
— Michael Mauboussin
Michael Mauboussin (@mjmauboussin) is Head of Consilient Research on Counterpoint Global at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Prior to joining Counterpoint Global, Michael was Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital, Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, and Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management. Michael originally joined Credit Suisse in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst and was named Chief U.S. Investment Strategist in 1999.
Michael is the author of The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing, Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, and More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. More Than You Know was named one of “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time” by 800-CEO-READ, one of the best business books by BusinessWeek (2006), and best economics book by Strategy+Business (2006). Michael is also co-author, with Alfred Rappaport, of Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns.
Michael has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993 and is on the faculty of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing. He received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 and 2016 and the Graham & Dodd, Murray, Greenwald Prize for Value Investing in 2021.
Michael earned an A.B. from Georgetown University. He is chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Santa Fe Institute, a leading center for multidisciplinary research in complex systems theory.
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Want to hear another episode with an investor of cutting-edge insight? Listen to my conversation with Benchmark’s Bill Gurley, in which we discussed sell-side analysts versus buy-side analysts, financial models, repurposing good ideas for alternative applications, the conviction of network effects, undervalued competitive advantages, cultivating anti-tribalism, America’s future, and much more.
#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Michael Mauboussin:The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing by Michael Mauboussin | AmazonThink Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition by Michael Mauboussin | AmazonMore Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael Mauboussin | AmazonExpectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns by Michael Mauboussin and Alfred Rappaport | AmazonSanta Fe InstituteHistory of the Royal Society | Royal SocietyCreating Shareholder Value: A Guide for Managers and Investors by Alfred Rappaport | AmazonMichael Mauboussin, Interview No. 4 | Farnam Street BlogDrexel Burnham Lambert | WikipediaStokely Approves Quaker Bid | The New York TimesSports Science to Fuel Athletes | GatoradeConsilience: The Unity of Knowledge by E.O. Wilson | AmazonConsilient Observer | Morgan StanleyWho Actually Invented the Wheeled Suitcase? | Interesting EngineeringWALL-E | Prime VideoComplex Adaptive System | WikipediaEmbracing Complexity | Harvard Business ReviewThe Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki | AmazonTeams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse | Harvard Business ReviewThe Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page | AmazonThe Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy by Scott Page | AmazonMichael Mauboussin 20th Year Tribute Video | Andrew MauboussinHow to Unleash the Wisdom of Crowds | The ConversationMarket Efficiency and the Bean Jar Experiment | Financial Analysts JournalThe Asch Conformity Experiments | Verywell MindHow to Manage a Team to Make Good Decisions | Credit SuisseThe Future Divined by the Crowd | The New York TimesHow a Guessing Game Can Make You a Better Leader by Jake Wilder | The StartupAgainst the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein | AmazonCapital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street by Peter L. Bernstein | AmazonBionomics: Economy as Business Ecosystem by Michael Rothschild | AmazonMore Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics by Philip Mirowski | AmazonComplexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop | AmazonThe Economy As An Evolving Complex System: The Proceedings of the Evolutionary Paths of the Global Economy Workshop, Held September, 1987 in Santa Fe, New Mexico by Philip W. Anderson | AmazonValue Investing | InvestopediaInvest Like the Best with Patrick O’ShaughnessyPrivate vs. Public Company: What’s the Difference? | InvestopediaWhat Is a Buyout? | InvestopediaVenture Capital | InvestopediaHow Interest Rates Affect the US Markets | InvestopediaBase Rate | WikipediaDaniel Kahneman: Beware the ‘Inside View’ | McKinseyTriple Crown Teachings | Credit SuisseThink Twice: An Interview with Michael J. Mauboussin | Emerald PublishingBehave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky | AmazonWhy Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky | AmazonThe 2007–2008 Financial Crisis in Review | InvestopediaMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis | AmazonPerforming a Project Pre-Mortem | Harvard Business ReviewVirtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson | AmazonHindsight Bias | The Decision LabThe Dangers of “Creeping Determinism” | The Space ReviewSkill Stacking: How to Combine Your Talents for Greater Success with David Epstein | Chase Jarvis PhotographyConstruct Validity in Psychological Tests by Cronbach & Meehl (1955) | Classics in the History of PsychologyExpert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip E. Tetlock | AmazonThe Wisdom of Crowds and The Expert Squeeze | Farnam Street BlogPrinciples of Naturalistic Decision Making | Naturalistic Decision Making AssociationProspect Theory | InvestopediaConditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree | American PsychologistSystem 1 and System 2 Thinking | The Decision LabThe Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance by Josh Waitzkin | AmazonChunking Theory in Chess | Bill WallDraft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee | AmazonDr. Matthew Walker, All Things Sleep Continued — The Hidden Dangers of Melatonin, Tools for Insomnia, Enhancing Learning and Sleep Spindles, The Upsides of Sleep Divorce, How Sleep Impacts Sex (and Vice Versa), Adventures in Lucid Dreaming, The One Clock to Rule Them All, The IP Addresses of Your Memories, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show #654Game of Thrones | HBOThe Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris | AmazonNo Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality by Judith Rich Harris | AmazonParent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children by Thomas Gordon | AmazonFree-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy | Amazon12 Years After Free-Range Kids, How Has Childhood Changed? | ReasonYellowstone National Park | US National Park ServiceComplexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell | AmazonSuperforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner | AmazonPsychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer | AmazonPsychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer (PDF) | CIAIncerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb | AmazonExpectations InvestingSHOW NOTES[07:12] Latin roots.[09:14] No business education? No problem![12:15] The best food industry analyst.[15:36] Consilience.[19:58] Complex adaptive systems.[23:26] Diversity.[26:23] The wisdom of crowds.[32:42] The minimum effective dose of cognitive diversity.[36:02] Designing experiments.[43:49] Against the Gods and Complexity.[49:56] Value investing and the Santa Fe Institute.[53:57] A brief 21st-century asset class tour.[57:47] Base rates and horses.[1:06:16] Good vs. great investors.[1:13:22] Expanding options when making decisions.[1:18:56] Favorite failures.[1:20:35] Counteracting overreliance on experts.[1:24:34] Intuition.[1:34:15] Time management tenets.[1:40:59] Parental resources.[1:43:42] Perspectives gained by learning about complex adaptive systems.[1:46:12] Recommended reading.[1:47:32] Michael’s billboard.[1:50:33] Parting thoughts.MORE MICHAEL MAUBOUSSIN QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Wall Street, even to this day, is replete with lots of rules of thumb and sort of old wives’ tales and shorthands for how to do things. And some of these things, when I would sit there and listen to them and try to cobble it all together, just didn’t make sense. And so for me it was this idea of the beginner’s mind and really saying, ‘How does this stuff really work?'”
— Michael Mauboussin
“How do I parse what I think would lend itself to where pattern recognition will be effective versus where it’s unlikely to be effective?”
— Michael Mauboussin
“As I always like to say in organizations, ‘What’s bad about young people is they don’t know anything. And what’s good about young people is they don’t know anything.'”
— Michael Mauboussin
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March 1, 2023
CEO Coach Matt Mochary — Live Coaching with Tim, Why Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice, How to Perform Personal Energy Audits, The Power of Accountability Partners, Delegation Tips, Strategies for Hiring the Right People, and More (#658)
Illustration via 99designs“Fear and anger give bad advice.”
— Matt Mochary
Matt Mochary (@mattmochary) coaches the heads of top Silicon Valley tech investment firms and companies on how to be the best leaders and build the best organizations possible. His philosophy and method are captured in both the Mochary Coaching Methodology (which is available as a free Google Doc) and in his book The Great CEO Within, which is available on Amazon and online (also as a free Google Doc).
As a former founder, CEO, and investor, Matt knows firsthand the challenges of those roles as well as solutions to the most commonly encountered problems. His coaching is not questions-only; there is real guidance. Matt specializes in helping CEOs and their companies (or investment firms) transition from freewheeling startups to dominant enterprises.
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Listen onApple Podcasts[image error]Listen onSpotify[image error]Listen onOvercast#658: CEO Coach Matt Mochary — Live Coaching with Tim, Why Fear and Anger Give Bad Advice, How to Perform Personal Energy Audits, The Power of Accountability Partners, Delegation Tips, Strategies for Hiring the Right People, and MoreThis episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could use only one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually AG1 by Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. I recommended it in The 4-Hour Body in 2010 and did not get paid to do so. I do my best with nutrient-dense meals, of course, but AG further covers my bases with vitamins, minerals, and whole-food-sourced micronutrients that support gut health and the immune system.
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Want to hear an interview with another world-class coach? Listen to my first conversation with Jerry Colonna, in which we discuss being complicit in creating the conditions in life we don’t really want, nagging self-doubt, finding time for self-discovery, confronting the difficulty most of us have with saying “no,” acknowledging compassion from a distance, journaling, guilt versus remorse, and much more.
#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with Matt Mochary:Mochary Method Curriculum | Google DocsThe Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Mochary, Alex Maccaw, and Misha Talavera | AmazonThe Great CEO Within | Google DocsFear and Anger Give Bad Advice | Google DocsThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss | AmazonThe Rise of Modern Stoicism: Is Keeping Calm a Healthy Option? | ElleStoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim Ferriss11 Reasons Not to Become Famous (or “A Few Lessons Learned Since 2007”) | Tim FerrissMy Healing Journey After Childhood Abuse (Includes Extensive Resource List) | The Tim Ferriss Show #464All About the INTJ Personality Type | TruityVirtual Coworking for Getting Anything Done | FocusmateChange the Way You Work | Clipboard HealthWho: Who: The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street | AmazonAnything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur by Derek Sivers | AmazonHow to Conduct an Energy Audit and Why It Matters | Mochary Method Class #4Finding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I’m Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim FerrissJeff Bezos: This Is the ‘Smartest Thing We Ever Did’ at Amazon | CNBCHow We Run Our Board Meetings to Benefit the Board and Brex | BrexHow Matt Mochary Became the Preeminent Tech-World CEO Coach | Fast CompanyForget New Year’s Resolutions and Conduct a ‘Past Year Review’ Instead | The Tim Ferriss Show #559Azores | Visit PortugalShut Up! | Loud AustinHow to Say “No” When It Matters Most (or “Why I’m Taking a Long ‘Startup Vacation'”) | Tim FerrissThe Alpinist | Prime VideoDropbox Sign (formerly HelloSign)Chief of Staff: Why You Need One | Mochary MethodTactical Resources for Founders, Execs, and Chiefs of Staff by Regina Gerbeaux | NotionFavela Rising | Prime VideoThe Gloves (Full Movie) | Matt MocharyMy Fair Lady Pronunciation | YouTubeRikers Island | WikipediaAfter Leaving Prison, This Man is Helping End Recidivism | Good Good GoodReal Second Chances Start Here | FreeWorldIntroducing ChatGPT | OpenAIHoʻakeolapono Trades Academy and InstituteOnboard Yourself in 30 Days | Regina GerbeauxThe Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday | AmazonThe Tao of Seneca: Letters from a Stoic Master (aka The Moral Letters to Lucilius) | Tim FerrissSHOW NOTESEditor’s Note: Timestamps will be added shortly.
Fear and anger give bad advice.Dispelling dating dread.The power of prediction.Next actions.Turning conversations into action items.Accountability for introverts and extroverts.What is Focusmate?Separating decision from implementation.Firing well.Effective and efficient recruiting.Getting honest feedback from past managers.The energy audit.Running effective and efficient meetings.Reducing and removing energy-depleting obligations from the calendar.Assistance with assistants.Why did Matt stop making documentaries?Why Matt’s building a startup.Rules, guide rails, and exit protocols.Downregulating anger and feeling the pain.Parting thoughts.MORE MATT MOCHARY QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW“Fear and anger give bad advice.”
— Matt Mochary
“When I coach someone, I become their manager, period, end of story. And if by the third meeting they feel more successful, more engaged, more empowered, then they know the system works. And it’s all written out, so they can just copy, paste, use with their team members, and then it works with their team members as well.”
— Matt Mochary
“In any organization, there’s a human that you are prioritizing. So if it’s a company, you’re probably prioritizing the customer. If it’s an investment firm, you’re probably prioritizing your LPs. If it’s your own personal life, you need to be prioritizing you.”
— Matt Mochary
“I find that generally, humans are not incompetent … they’re uninterested. But if you can find a place where they’re interested, suddenly they become very competent.”
— Matt Mochary
“I would say the most valuable thing about recruiting is first, learn how to fire well. And if you can do that, now the pressure is off, and you can take a little bit more chance on people you have intuition about that you really like, but maybe they’re inexperienced, maybe they’re young. And I find those people are often insanely good performers.”
— Matt Mochary
“Allow yourself to feel pain.”
— Matt Mochary
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February 23, 2023
Professor John Vervaeke — How to Build a Life of Wisdom, Flow, and Contemplation (#657)
Illustration via 99designs“Knowledge is about overcoming ignorance. Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness.”
— Professor John Vervaeke
John Vervaeke (@vervaeke_john) is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. He currently teaches courses on thinking and reasoning with an emphasis on cognitive development, intelligence, rationality, mindfulness, and the psychology of wisdom.
Vervaeke is the director of UToronto’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Laboratory and its Cognitive Science program, where he teaches Introduction to Cognitive Science and The Cognitive Science of Consciousness, emphasizing the 4E model, which contends that cognition and consciousness are embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended beyond the brain.
Vervaeke has taught courses on Buddhism and Cognitive Science in the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program for 15 years. He is the author and presenter of the YouTube series “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis” and his brand new series, “After Socrates.”
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Want to hear another interview that ponders the nature of our relationship with reality? Have a listen to my conversation with Professor Donald Hoffman here, in which we discuss the science of consciousness, how perception may influence the physical world, the holographic model of the universe, panpsychism (and influential panpsychists), cosmological polytope, the use of hallucinogenic drugs to tap into deeper reality and interact with conscious agents, QBism, the probability of zero that humans evolved to see reality in full, and much more wild stuff.
#585: Professor Donald Hoffman — The Case Against Reality, Beyond Spacetime, Rethinking Death, Panpsychism, QBism, and MoreWhat was your favorite quote or lesson from this episode? Please let me know in the comments.
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODEConnect with John Vervaeke:Website | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube
After Socrates | John VervaekeAwakening from the Meaning Crisis | John VervaekeConsciousness and Wisdom Studies Lab (CWSL) | University of TorontoJohn Vervaeke’s Brilliant 4P/3R Metatheory of Cognition | Psychology TodayJohn Vervaeke Summarising 4P (Clip) | Rebel Wisdom with Jonathan RowsonAffordance Theory (Gibson) | Learning TheoriesDualism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHow Semantic Memory Works | Simply PsychologyFlow (Psychology) | WikipediaFlow, Metaphor, and the Axial Revolution | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #2Daoism | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyT’ai Chi Ch’uan Philosophy | WikipediaQigong | WikipediaShiatsu | WikipediaSearching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin | AmazonSearching For Bobby Fischer | Prime VideoJosh Waitzkin: 2004 Tai Chi World Cup Highlights | YouTubeJosh Waitzkin — How to Cram 2 Months of Learning into 1 Day | The Tim Ferriss Show #375Socrates, The Monstrous | After Socrates #2Case Studies | Harvard Business ReviewFlow as Spontaneous Thought: Insight and Implicit Learning | The Oxford Handbook of Spontaneous ThoughtJazz Improvisation Made Simple: A Step-By-Step GuideChristian Philosophy and Theology | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyLord of Light by Roger Zelazny | AmazonSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse | AmazonFifth Business by Robertson Davies | AmazonTai Chi and Qi: A Deep Dive by John Vervaeke | TaiChiUSAThe Buddha and “Mindfulness” | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #8Ecology of Practices | After Socrates #10aEcology of Practices | After Socrates #10bVipassana Meditation | Dhamma.orgBrief Instructions for Loving-Kindness Meditation | Metta InstituteSharon Salzberg, World-Renowned Meditation Teacher | The Tim Ferriss Show #277Rapture | WikipediaWhat Is the “Unforgivable Sin?” | NIV BibleSocrates and the Quest for Wisdom | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #4Platonism and the Platonic Tradition | Encyclopedia.comThe Axial Age: When the Greatest Minds Walked the Earth | Big ThinkBuddhism and Parasitic Processing | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #13Parasitic Processing — The Cognitive Science of Overthinking | Dismantled MindNo Free Lunch Theorem | WikipediaNewell, Simon, and Shaw Develop the First Artificial Intelligence Program | History of InformationBounded Rationality | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyOne of These Things | Sesame StreetFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | AmazonEducating Intuition by Robin M. Hogarth | AmazonImplicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge | Journal of Experimental Psychology: GeneralPattern Recognition | C8 SciencesStoicism Resources and Recommendations | Tim FerrissList of Cognitive Biases and Heuristics | The Decision LabLectio Divina: A Beginner’s Guide | Busted HaloContemplation vs. Meditation (What’s the Difference?) | Mindfulness BoxMeditation and Contemplation with Dr. John Vervaeke | Consciousness & ConsciencePhilosophical Fellowship: Demonstration of the Practice | Voices with VervaekePositivity: Groundbreaking Research to Release Your Inner Optimist and Thrive by Barbara Fredrickson | AmazonChristianity and Agape | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #16What is the Circling Method? | The Circling InstituteContemplating in Togetherness from Our Inner Depth | Deep PhilosophyOmnipresence | Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyEthics: With the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza | AmazonEuclid’s Elements (The Thirteen Books) by Euclid | AmazonDisbelieve It or Not, Ancient History Suggests That Atheism Is as Natural to Humans as Religion | University of CambridgeThe Religion of No Religion | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #39Dialectic into Dialogos and the Pragmatics of No-thingness in a Time of Crisis | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of CultureDialectic into Dia-logos | After Socrates #3The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #35Plato and the Cave | Awakening from the Meaning Crisis #5Religio/Perennial Problems/Reverse Eng. 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Wisdom is about overcoming foolishness. So you understand wisdom by understanding foolishness, and you understand foolishness as not identical to ignorance.”
— John Vervaeke
“Stop demonizing any faculty and stop deifying any faculty. Your intuition will lead you as much wrong as your reason, as much wrong as your emotions, as much wrong as your logic.”
— John Vervaeke
“The very processes that make us intelligent problem solvers [and] make us so adaptive are the very same processes that make us prone to self-deceptive, self-destructive behavior.”
— John Vervaeke
“We pick up on all kinds of complex patterns that are not real and we form intuitions around them, but when we don’t like our intuition, we don’t call it intuition, we call it bias or prejudice or racism or sexism or a whole bunch of other things.”
— John Vervaeke
“Logic does not tell you how to go from a weaker logic to a stronger logic. I can do all the possible manipulations within predicate logic and it won’t get me to motor logic. I have to do something outside of that to actually increase my logical competence. So there’s no panacea.”
— John Vervaeke
“Yes, your emotions can lead you astray, but try living without them and see how rational you can be.”
— John Vervaeke
“I don’t like the argument that goes, ‘Consciousness is weird, quantum is weird, therefore consciousness is quantum.’ That’s just ridiculous. Now, panpsychism is a different thing. And you don’t have to be convinced about quantum stuff to be a panpsychist.”
— John Vervaeke
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