How to Become World-class at Anything: An Interview with Tim Ferriss
We all want to feel more like directors in our own lives and less like spectators? We want to be the boss, not the victim. Don’t we? What if I told you a cookbook could help you do that? Crazy, right? Maybe not…
I recently had the opportunity to interview best-selling author Tim Ferris, and we chatted about that very idea.
Chef Tim
In this exclusive interview, Tim and I talk about his new book, The 4-Hour Chef, which launches today and is about a lot more than cooking.
Listen to the interview
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More about The 4-Hour Chef
This book isn’t just another cookbook. It’s a guide to taking back control of your life, a blueprint for becoming the jefe of your own story.
Spread throughout The 4-Hour Chef is the idea of meta learning (essentially, learning about learning) and the process by which someone becomes world-class at anything (including cooking).
Tim is renowned for cracking the code on seemingly complex processes and breaking them down. He did it with his previous two books (both were NY Times Best Sellers) by tackling the issues of time management and weight loss. And now, he’s teaching us how to cook.
But this is just another rodeo for Mr. Ferriss. Long before his success as an author, he was mastering Japanese by reading comic books, becoming a kickboxing champ in China, and going toe to toe with tango world champs in Argentina.
Interview highlights
Here’s what Tim and I discussed in this exclusive interview:
How Tim approaches learning, cooking, writing, and other stuff
Why being born premature (and having other weaknesses) has helped him become who he is
What his greatest weaknesses are, how he’s not superhuman, and why failure is no excuse to quit
Why he doesn’t write for just one genre and what he’s learning from releasing a book only on Amazon
And a lot more!
The secret to becoming world class
Like I said before, this book is about a lot more than cooking. It’s about how we learn to do things we’ve never been good at.
In The 4-Hour Chef, Tim breaks down his approach to rapid skill acquisition — and how you can replicate the same process for anything you want to learn.
So… what’s the secret to becoming world class at anything? Here’s the answer in Tim’s own words:
“The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.” —Tim Ferriss (Click here to tweet that.)
How to get access to an exclusive Q&A with Tim
Here’s a cool opportunity Tim is offering you guys just for listening along to this interview. If you buy three hard copies of his new book, you’ll get access to an exclusive Q&A with him after the book launch. Here’s how it works:
Buy three print copies of The 4-Hour Chef (affiliate link).
Email the receipt to 3books(AT)4hourchef.com.
You’ll then receive an invitation to an exclusive, two-hour, live Q&A with Tim Ferriss, where you can ask him anything.
What’s something that you’d like to be world class at? Share in the comments.
