#70: How to Earn Your Freedom
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At this altitude, I can run flat out for a half mile before my hands start shaking.
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This is Tim Ferriss, and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show.
This is an in between episode, a.
Short little morsel instead of the longer interviews that I tend to do, but you can certainly find all of those at Forward slash podcast. But today I'm sitting in the creative live offices. It's one of the startups that I work with, creativelive.com. The founder or co founder Chase Jarvis was also on the podcast, and it's a beautiful day in San Francisco. It makes me want to get outside to reassess what I'm so busy with. Why am I so busy? And perhaps it's time to loosen the ties and go off in an adventure to really gain some perspective. And this podcast, this particular episode, might cause you to quit your job, and that would be a good thing, even if you're the boss in many cases. And even if you do not do that, I think it will provide you with some insight and perspective and new angles on how to view lifestyle, lifestyle design, and much more than that. So I'm going to present two essays. These are two separate essays, but very closely related by Ralph Potts, and they are from the book vagabonding and vagabonding is one of the two books that I took with me, and I had, next to nothing, a tiny little bag when I traveled the world for a year and a half starting in 2004. And all of those experiences, of course, led to or formed the basis for the four hour work week. And vagabonding is one of the four fundamental four, as I call them, books that I recommend at the back of the four hour work week. And the other book, by the way, I had two books with me. That's it. The other one was Walden. But vagabonding, it is a game changer. And it's not just about travel. It is about a mindset for life. And it's very easy when we strive for achievement, achievement, achievement, to forget about appreciation and how to blend those two in a very pragmatic way so that you are not just a successful person, but a happy, fulfilled, and adventuresome person, if that's a real word, to rediscover joy. So without further ado, I'm going to get us to those essays, which you guys, I think are going to love, and I'd really enjoy your feedback. So let me know on Twitter what you think at tferris. Tferriss and the entire book can be found and you can listen to more samples at Tim's books. But these two essays definitely stand on their own, so you'll get a lot out of them. We have two new sponsors for this podcast, and I'm very excited about them. The first is related to movies because I am an obsessively fanatical movie watcher. I watch movies all the time. Very often, instead of reading fiction before bed to turn my brain off or my problem solving brain off, I will watch movies, and they range very widely. But the sponsor is Vimeo, and specifically Vimeo on demand. I've been a user, a consumer of Vimeo for many years, and on Vimeo, what makes them very interesting, you're buying from the creator, so you're supporting their work with a greater amount of your dollars going into their pockets directly. So I love that. Number one, as a content creator myself and on Vimeo on demand, I'll give you four. Actually, no, I'm not going to give you four. I'm going to give you three movies that I highly recommend you check out, and you can find them all very easily by going to Vimeo. That's fourhourworkweek.com vimeo. And here we go. So the first one is Tomorrowland, and a lot of you have probably never heard of this. This was a grand jury prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival. It is the weirdest, most thought provoking 16 minutes short you've ever seen. And the Verge called it, quote, a masterpiece. One of the best Sci-Fi movies in years, end quote. I'm not going to tell you too much about it. It's very cheap, so you should absolutely watch this. And it's short enough that you can watch it on a device, on an iPhone or whatnot. So check out tomorrowland. And the second is very, very different. This one is the act of killing. The act of killing should not be watched right before bed. It is one of the most powerful films I've ever seen, and it defies categorization. I'll give you a quote here. And Werner Herzog, once you know he's involved, craziness is going to ensue. Fader magazine said this is, quote, the most innovative masterpiece of documentary filmmaking, bar none, end quote. So we have Tomorrowland, super short, the act of killing, super intense. And then the third one I'm going to tell you about is waking up. And this is actually a lecture by Sam Harris, and it focuses on mindfulness and meditation. Sam is one of the smartest people I know. He was also on this podcast, and this is a tutorial and a guide to waking up. And as someone who's been meditating regularly now for the last six months or to a year, I would say it is a complete game changer. And it's been the most consistent behavior that I've noticed across all of the top performers that I interview for this podcast. And I'm not going to tell you about the fourth one. You can see that yourself. Go to slash Vimeo. All right, that's Vimeo, second sponsor. I'm going to keep this short, but it is one of the startups that I work with that I love, and that is exo protein. So exo protein is a startup that is making protein bars using cricket flour. And they are designed by an award winning three Michelin star chef who was the former head of R D at the Fat Duck, which was ranked the number one restaurant in the world. So these are paleo friendly, no gluten grains, soy, dairy, et cetera. And they are amazing. And the reason that I wanted to put
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