THE TIM FERRISS SHOWHOSTED BYTIM FERRISS: BESTSELLING AUTHOR, HUMAN GUINEA PIG
Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.
Me out on Safari, and the guy who showed up was a different guy. Alright. I didn't really care, but we got talking as we drove around. And here I am, like, he's 23. I'm 43, I think. So we start talking, housewife to game ranger just like A heart to heart would be. And I don't know how with within 5 minutes, we were in such an intense conversation and we were laughing at each other's jokes, and we were we were having this amazing time. And we went back to the game preserve place. To the camp. And we had tea together, and he told me, you know, my family's been going through some difficult times. They've had really strange legal things happening and It kind of paralleled what I was going through in some ways. So I felt really understood, but I also thought, oh my gosh. He doesn't understand really what the dynamics of what's going on. And I I'm a sociologist. I study psychology by as my trade. So I started talking to him about it And he says, you have to meet my family. I didn't know that his family was the family that owned the game preserve and had started it. It'll, like, reforested it and everything. Before I knew it, I was at their house with his sister, Bronwyn, and his parents, David Shan, and I was talking to them as fast as I could about how to deal with attacks from psychopaths. They can handle attacks from almost anything, but psychopaths were were new to them. And I was supposed to leave on this small plane. They held the plane for an hour, so we could keep talking. And I got on the plane, and I had A copy of Dave's book. Dave is Boyd's father, and he'd written a a memoir. And I got on the plane, and they shouted after me. Next time you come back, you can stay with and I got on the plane with my head spinning. And I thought, I just meant my best friends. And I read Dave's book on the plane, and there's a place where Boyd and his sister, Ronwin, and his mother, and their teacher were were
