Excellent. My son has been struggling for more than twenty years but still clinging to fear and stuck in his past tortured traumas. The bulling, having been born 2 pounds, the bipolar, the SCHOOL system, on and on. I have faith that one day, like you, will happen to him he will wake up to all his intelligence, capacity to learn, he teaches himself music.
He shows what can be done by adopting a certain mindset, he is the result of his mindset. He found a way that worked for him and he applies it to everything he does, the result is astounding, show-off or not, he is good in everything he does... Good on you mate!
Great video! I see some people below seem to have missed the point. He is talking about how you can basically learn anything by deconstructing it, breaking it down. He just uses three completely different examples to make his point. It is a valuable lesson.
This guy is beyond amazing, he's so smart, the way he sees things is like a true genius. So when in spite all that finishes the talk like that it makes your heart melt with surprise and respect for him. This is a life changing talk, really.
Tim makes me excited about living lol. I'm not sure why so many people choose to dismiss him so quickly and hatefully without without exploring the concepts he preaches. Seems foolish.. maybe it's fear of change and responsibility for ones life? Anyway, very cool video!
Jonathan Terry I've liked what Tim Ferriss says, but like any professional he can cover up his issues and make some of the most elementary mistakes where I can see him being very secretive in a lot of ways. That's where you shouldn't take anyone too seriously or blindly follow them. There can always be a better way, and he can be behind in a lot of ways in some of the knowledge he talks about. He could be having problems his system doesn't address to where his system can have some holes in it just like anyone else. Some people can be more skeptical because they can see this. He can be jaded to where I don't think there's certain information he'll look at, or there's more ways he can evolve his knowledge but he closes off too many people to himself to where he won't communicate with them or get more knowledge from broader amounts of people. He's privy to his select group but it greatly limits him. I think he plateaued after Four Hour Body. For a lot of what he talks about, there's much greater ways to where he can progress much further but instead he only looks at certain levels to where a lot of it can be on a very basic level that isn't that great. But other things I'm highly impressed by where he's shared some top research where it's life changing the power in much of his science that's much needed for today. He tries to create this image of being impenetrable but I see it as a weakness, and can see he disguises his weaknesses which they're very basic. It will limit him in the long run, like how come he's not a billionaire yet? He's been sticking to just a millionaire, and he hasn't been taking it to the level he talks of. He churches up a lot of things to where he does all of these things and then he makes you feel obligated to do them. Then the person does it but they don't like it. That's where the question of self identity comes in, and he's just sharing what he does to where you might not like it and would want to do something else. That's just where his life has taken him. He might have gotten stuck into doing things he doesn't like, just for his system of the sake of doing things. He's not necessarily that great at a lot of things either, where he's more obligated to do it. He's very good at other things. That's where a person wants to look at what they can get out of something where you can combine concepts to do far less things, and only do those things for a period until it's no longer necessary cutting out quantity and just getting the desired quality to make far more time, and then to get into much higher level things with that. He could get into the commercial aspects too much for the redundant type watered down selling stuff to where it's more like a jaded thing as opposed to actually enjoying doing it. Then he's turned everything into churched of obligation of just doing things. I've seen that at anything he does, many of those he could be significantly better to where maybe there's other areas of his identity he needs to explore. A lot of it can just be bells and whistles, and cannon fodder. I've also been very impressed by many of the scientific concepts he talks about, and I've liked many of the subjects he's gotten into. What are you without those things, that's another important question of what do you have that's eternal, but that isn't physical. And vice versa where the left brained aspect of knowledge and application in the world where you need knowledge and physical skills to experience the physical reality. He can exaggerate himself and blow himself out of proportion. He could possibly have confidence issues he masks. To where you can say all that and then you see you weren't supposed to say that, like ooohhh I shouldn't have said that.
Right, nobody's perfect. Nevertheless, there's a lot of unjustified hate surrounding Tim. I think a lot of it has to do with the outlandish amount of hype (and it's obviously working for him) that he puts into his products. As far as his plateau being reached, it's a matter of perspective. On one hand he was making way more than he is now with his company that inspired the 4 hour work week. On the other hand he has his own highly successful television show now and has a trilogy of highly successful books. I guess it depends on where your priorities lie. PS I've visited his blog a couple times. He doesn't hide the fact that he's human.
Jonathan Terry Maybe he's settled down with a wife and has some children. If he ages well he can have any woman he wants for decades to come. I thought he could take it further but maybe he just doesn't have the right team for something along those lines, but what he is great at is sharing very good scientific information and experience with application. If he did worse on the SATs then where would he be today. It's kind of weak in my opinion that he puts so much emphasis on success on that education, where while it's good shouldn't there be something else he should consider of value to where he's way too dependent on that opportunity he almost didn't have because he barely made it in his SATs scores. The opportunity where he barely made it to Harvard. He probably still would have gotten an education in college university if he did worse on the test and didn't go to Harvard, to where he would still have a lot of strengths today. There's that point when some people have to put down the hand they have even though it's a good hand to where they can delve into that more. While others will continue with those hands but it goes downhill where they're trying to go for the high point but not the content or quality. Within any stage they have their choices. I personally haven't read any bad reviews or bad information on Tim Ferriss, I wonder where you're hearing of people that have some objections to Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss could come up with some other big things in his 40s and if he can keep doing that into his 50s and 60s that would be cool to where he still considers himself that level of a name into his 50s and 60s instead of retiring in his 30s. There's cool stuff he wants to take further but hasn't figured out the best system for it like new types of education for many people where I can think of ways to improve that or the people it should be meant for.
This is an "oldy but a goody". Every guy I know wants to become the Incredible Hulk but not everyone has a productivity guru as successful as Tim. Thank you Tim for everything that you've done for us!
The TIM FERRIS IS FABULOUS talk... I was thrown in the water at age three by my father, two options: sink or survival...swim. All of the physics he refers to sounds like white noise. Just enjoy thrashing around and you get it.
the main topic that i got from this is that, he is showing you ways he got over his fears and how he made those fears into pleasures and that you can do anything if you try with effectiveness that works for you. and the way he is explaining it is by personal experience. its supposed to be motivating.
no matter what people say about his style/outlook/delivery, at the end of the day he is where few people are at, point blank! shame it's easier to criticize one another than to support and uplift each other.
Even though he comes across as bit too selfcentered and arrogant he makes a valid point. By studying and recearching different learning tools many things can possible that one often finds diffucult to master. There's nothing revolutionary about his speech, but he gives an empovering example about the possibility to learn something new at any age. Hey you don't have to like the guy to get something out of him. Conclusion is that often self doubt takes too much away from our potential.
The essence of this video is in the last 2 mins. All the rest is setting up the stage for the real message "Fear is your friend. What's the worst that could happen?"
It was a great way to end the talk because the U.S. system is broken. In 2005 it ranked 48th just behind Poland. He said he was privileged to have access to a great education. He got to study in Japan as well which is a top ranked country for education. More Americans can achieve great things with a better education. His strength comes from a solid foundation/good education, and TED is a great audience to ask for assistance - lots of smart people.
i did it, and conquered it, from being able to swim just about 5 minutes before drowning, to swimming 3.5 hours non stop, I am now comfortable to ocean swim 5 days a week for 1 hr daily. The underlying challenge is convincing yourself that you will not die until destiny dictates, without that you will not get the freedom swimming in the ocean.
Amazing. A lot of it went over my head though. I'll have to watch it again. I didn't quite know what to take away from the languages bit. If anyone reading this could help me out that would be great.
Very good. I'm reading his book... Work in 4 hours per week (I think...)In Portuguese...I loved your methods. I have sure that I'll learning a lot with that guy. Now, I believe this man can dance Tango...
Well...I understand most things easily. I "understand" what he's saying; I fail to understand what value he feels he has to offer. He ACTS as though what he has to say is wonderful and insightful. I don't UNDERSTAND why he thinks that.
Summary : ask advice . Example , if you want to learn : language ask a polygot . Football ask a coach. Ask more questions , and pick , one which makes you reach your goals faster .
what this is about 1) there are goals outside of work 2) if you aren't good at something, you just haven't found the right method yet 3) you have to do your OWN research to find out what makes people professional athletes/dancers the best. (none of his swimming teachers taught him what angle to hit the water) 4) Fear is fun, its exciting and conquerable
"I don't get why this guy in on TED." Couldn't have said it better myself. Still, it's great to see that some people have the time + resources to do all this, and make a living at the same time. I can only do either, not both.
15 mins information field talk. I enjoy listening to this kinds of talk where people share experiences and from it you learn something. I find only a few shows that does it. TED for youtube, Pioneers of Insight and The Tim Ferris show on podcast, then books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad and 4hrs work week.
Loved you 4 Hour Work Week! I've been studying Afrikaans on the Mondly Language App and I get a lot of the vocabulary words and failing 8th grade German has been a big help. I'm still having a hard with the roll of the tonque. Very gutteral! My best friend's stepson's name is Ulrich and try as I might I've been told it's very hard for an English speaking person to get the pronunciation correct. I try things that I don't know how to do just to see if I can get it.
I think cockyness is the key thing in this whole presentation except he's less cocky and more confident, him gaining confidence and putting himself out there and not shying away from things.
He was CEO of a sports nutrition/supplement company until he sold it in 2009. Corporations outsource in this world to make a profit. He's not cheap, it saves him money out of his company's profits. Running a business is a lot tougher than being a salaried employee, and if you don't have that experience than you can't say that's he is being cheap. He was smart enough to figure out how to make millions of dollars without a lot of work.
The point he makes is that if you systematize your thinking and approach to challenges, it greatly increases the ease of accomplishing. Yeah, that seems intuitive, but it still seems to completely pass people by. As he points out, even most swimming teachers do things incorrectly, because they never examine what they're doing, they just think that if they do it long enough, they'll figure it out intuitively. He's pointing out that practice, and even experience, will never trump deconstruction.
First Principles "The best results in life are often held back by false constructs & untested assumptions. What happens if i do the opposite? for get what you know focus on what you don't. Implicit v. Explicit." Material > Method. "It is often times what you do not how you do it that is the determining factor. This is the difference between being effective & doing the right things & efficient or doing things well whether or not they are important." Implicit v. Explicit What are the implicit commonalities that experts don't seem to practice? Parkinson law- "Competition. Dead line. The perceived complexity of a task will expand to fulfill the time allotted." "Fear is your friend. Shows you what you shouldn't do, but most often times it shows you what you should do. What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to learn to do anything.
After reading the 4 Hour Body I was left thinking most of it was plagiarised from expert physiologists. Now I realise that Tim Ferris' expertise is in finding the best experts and the best instruction.
""Just a college dude with a quality beard living in the expanse of barren land called Nebraska. Hippie. Hipster. Feminist. Me." hahahaha ok quesiton answered
11:17 That's a totally crazy excerbation and It's real cause I ACTED LIKE THIS. I used to be king of freaking out and taking exaggerated conclusions, and overall ruining my life. My singing teacher used to to say that i was leaving very deeply into a shell or cave and very slowly, little by little, we were getting me out of there. My development took off only when i accepted that i needed help and went to directly study on my behaviour, confidence and communcation videos and stoicism books. Before that i was so embaressed to actually search "how to speak confidently" that went on every tangent possible, focusing more on philosophy, science, psychology, fiction etc, and even though i learned a bunch of cool stuff it was very different than doing direct work (like trying to learn how to lift weights or an exercises by doing and studying anything except the thing itself. Lying that "it was close enough" but as anyone who lifts seriously will tell you, a C&P and Deadlift starting position are "close enough" but their intention are totally different. This is the Material over Method he was talking, and It's real, we usually focus more on method (usually the way we've been doing things, Ali Abdaal talks about this in his Active Learning video) cause is easier and more confortable, learning is overwhelming, we want progress, so doing something is better than nothing. And this is not bad if you have trouble starting but you certainly need to polish you approach as you move foward (It's like Josh Waitszkin saying is never too late to foster a Growth Mindset).
It was interesting to hear him talking about efficient swimming, because I had a little competitive swimming training in middle school and the things he is talking about were all things my coach would yell at me about until I gained the skill to fix them (:
Im afraid your trolling, but if your not; In addition to the attributes you mentioned, Tim Ferriss has written 3 NY times best sellers, hes an advisor for twitter, facebook, evernote, uber, all-american wrestler, chinese kickboxing champion, he had a succsessfull supplement company for 8 years and has been teaching everything from entrepreneurship to dating at the worlds largest forums. I cant think of anyone more accomplished in so many fields.
1:23 Fucking bullies man... this made me teary eyed. When they do those things to you in early age it completely destroy your infancy and teens, especially if you don't have an educated supportive envinronment (like me), you grow up a scaredy cat. To this day, age 24, after completely changed myself and becoming much more confident and skilled i still have those scars from a terrible childhood that feels like open wounds. Even if i don't remember vividly they became second nature and manipulate my behaviour into a cowardly and distrustful state in certain moments. Or in this case deeply shaken and empathetic.
Tim, how do I get into what you're doing with your schools? I'm a home educator, life long student, and new biohacker. I recently taught myself photoreading and am practicing the Wim Hof Method. I've taught and I've tutored. I know I can do more and want to take my skills and experience to the next level.
the 1st thing you do is wait for tim to reply to your comment i'm sure he'll reply within 2 years so just sit tight i asked tim a question in the comments section over 5 years ago and i'm still waiting, but i have faith he will get back to me - it may be as soon as tomorrow or next week
I do appreciate TF's take on fear. I'm sure he would say fear is simply a set of chains we put on ourselves which, in most cases, stop us from being great. He has liberated himself from it, and look what he has accomplished. That said, huge egos like the one we see in this video disgust me, and are a potential side-effect of becoming fearless. Which is more sickening though: living a fearful ordinary life, or living a fearless ego-driven great life?
Absolutely brilliant guy. Probably more brilliant than a lot of the other TEDsters and very unassuming. He should be given one of those 1 hour slots, and hope we get to see a lot more of him
swimming lesson: submerge most of your body, put your hand down into the water at a 45* angle approximately, then extend forward and then pull back. the 'kick' is most to adjust your hips'.
Wow! There are a lot of comments that deconstruct Tim's lecture and bash his ego, message, and success. His book and lecture convey examples of what one is capable of if they are focused on analyzing and utilizing the most efficient and productive methods to accomplish a particular goal. Your goals and desires don't have to be the same as Tim's to find useful information in his text. Good luck to all the haters.
This is something Slavoj Zizek talks about in his book Violence, on the subject of liberal communists. A book that I am far beneath summarising but is definitely worth reading.
Completely agree with you. This guy is the embodiment of selfish capitalism. He is brilliant at making money, and of course that's why he's revered so much as a business guru, but this doesn't impress me so much. All the money in the world doesn't matter when the only thing that money serves is making more money, and your huge ego. There are so many other rich entrepreneurs who actually give a darn about speaking, writing and selling things that are not themselves.
Excellent. My son has been struggling for more than twenty years but still clinging to fear and stuck in his past tortured traumas. The bulling, having been born 2 pounds, the bipolar, the SCHOOL system, on and on. I have faith that one day, like you, will happen to him he will wake up to all his intelligence, capacity to learn, he teaches himself music.
2:18 😂😂😂😂😂 His honesty is so endearing!! You cannot not like this guy when he's so honest, vulnerable and funny.
He shows what can be done by adopting a certain mindset, he is the result of his mindset. He found a way that worked for him and he applies it to everything he does, the result is astounding, show-off or not, he is good in everything he does... Good on you mate!
Correct
I love the concept: Fear shows you exactly what you should do
r u nuts, sometimes, but sometimes its the opposite!
sagara4e yeah, like jumping of a cliff..
Well, no, he says, to do the test..
Because you often find out that the fear is absolutely justified.. At least he did in his talk ten years later.
@@i-am-your-conscience yes, true :)
Great video! I see some people below seem to have missed the point. He is talking about how you can basically learn anything by deconstructing it, breaking it down. He just uses three completely different examples to make his point. It is a valuable lesson.
You're just an idiot. Ferriss is a huge con artist.
@@garyS3xQ-270 no u
"I know nothing, I am a beginner; but I would love your advice". Humble.
Glad you notice also! I was so inspired!
Damn, that man has self-confidence! Determination and hard work, that seems the key. Respect.
I agree! What he talks about is effective hard work: this means doing the right things :)
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I would argue that his point is the opposite: do what you have to do despute your lack of confidence
Intelligence, not everyone has it to the same degree.
I agree with you. Even though he is talking about himself he still comes across as humble, and I feel that he really wants to help people.
This guy is beyond amazing, he's so smart, the way he sees things is like a true genius. So when in spite all that finishes the talk like that it makes your heart melt with surprise and respect for him.
This is a life changing talk, really.
15:10 - Fear is an indicator it is your friend, sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do but more often than not it shows you what you should...
Tim makes me excited about living lol. I'm not sure why so many people choose to dismiss him so quickly and hatefully without without exploring the concepts he preaches. Seems foolish.. maybe it's fear of change and responsibility for ones life? Anyway, very cool video!
Jonathan TerryI know right? Jealous people can be so irritating and when we point it out to them, they deny it.
Jonathan Terry I've liked what Tim Ferriss says, but like any professional he can cover up his issues and make some of the most elementary mistakes where I can see him being very secretive in a lot of ways. That's where you shouldn't take anyone too seriously or blindly follow them. There can always be a better way, and he can be behind in a lot of ways in some of the knowledge he talks about. He could be having problems his system doesn't address to where his system can have some holes in it just like anyone else. Some people can be more skeptical because they can see this. He can be jaded to where I don't think there's certain information he'll look at, or there's more ways he can evolve his knowledge but he closes off too many people to himself to where he won't communicate with them or get more knowledge from broader amounts of people. He's privy to his select group but it greatly limits him. I think he plateaued after Four Hour Body. For a lot of what he talks about, there's much greater ways to where he can progress much further but instead he only looks at certain levels to where a lot of it can be on a very basic level that isn't that great. But other things I'm highly impressed by where he's shared some top research where it's life changing the power in much of his science that's much needed for today. He tries to create this image of being impenetrable but I see it as a weakness, and can see he disguises his weaknesses which they're very basic. It will limit him in the long run, like how come he's not a billionaire yet? He's been sticking to just a millionaire, and he hasn't been taking it to the level he talks of. He churches up a lot of things to where he does all of these things and then he makes you feel obligated to do them. Then the person does it but they don't like it. That's where the question of self identity comes in, and he's just sharing what he does to where you might not like it and would want to do something else. That's just where his life has taken him. He might have gotten stuck into doing things he doesn't like, just for his system of the sake of doing things. He's not necessarily that great at a lot of things either, where he's more obligated to do it. He's very good at other things. That's where a person wants to look at what they can get out of something where you can combine concepts to do far less things, and only do those things for a period until it's no longer necessary cutting out quantity and just getting the desired quality to make far more time, and then to get into much higher level things with that. He could get into the commercial aspects too much for the redundant type watered down selling stuff to where it's more like a jaded thing as opposed to actually enjoying doing it. Then he's turned everything into churched of obligation of just doing things. I've seen that at anything he does, many of those he could be significantly better to where maybe there's other areas of his identity he needs to explore. A lot of it can just be bells and whistles, and cannon fodder. I've also been very impressed by many of the scientific concepts he talks about, and I've liked many of the subjects he's gotten into. What are you without those things, that's another important question of what do you have that's eternal, but that isn't physical. And vice versa where the left brained aspect of knowledge and application in the world where you need knowledge and physical skills to experience the physical reality. He can exaggerate himself and blow himself out of proportion. He could possibly have confidence issues he masks. To where you can say all that and then you see you weren't supposed to say that, like ooohhh I shouldn't have said that.
Right, nobody's perfect.
Nevertheless, there's a lot of unjustified hate surrounding Tim. I think a lot of it has to do with the outlandish amount of hype (and it's obviously working for him) that he puts into his products. As far as his plateau being reached, it's a matter of perspective. On one hand he was making way more than he is now with his company that inspired the 4 hour work week. On the other hand he has his own highly successful television show now and has a trilogy of highly successful books. I guess it depends on where your priorities lie.
PS I've visited his blog a couple times. He doesn't hide the fact that he's human.
Jonathan Terry Maybe he's settled down with a wife and has some children. If he ages well he can have any woman he wants for decades to come. I thought he could take it further but maybe he just doesn't have the right team for something along those lines, but what he is great at is sharing very good scientific information and experience with application. If he did worse on the SATs then where would he be today. It's kind of weak in my opinion that he puts so much emphasis on success on that education, where while it's good shouldn't there be something else he should consider of value to where he's way too dependent on that opportunity he almost didn't have because he barely made it in his SATs scores. The opportunity where he barely made it to Harvard. He probably still would have gotten an education in college university if he did worse on the test and didn't go to Harvard, to where he would still have a lot of strengths today. There's that point when some people have to put down the hand they have even though it's a good hand to where they can delve into that more. While others will continue with those hands but it goes downhill where they're trying to go for the high point but not the content or quality. Within any stage they have their choices. I personally haven't read any bad reviews or bad information on Tim Ferriss, I wonder where you're hearing of people that have some objections to Tim Ferriss. Tim Ferriss could come up with some other big things in his 40s and if he can keep doing that into his 50s and 60s that would be cool to where he still considers himself that level of a name into his 50s and 60s instead of retiring in his 30s. There's cool stuff he wants to take further but hasn't figured out the best system for it like new types of education for many people where I can think of ways to improve that or the people it should be meant for.
Daniel Holt Sorry man, I'm not really understanding your message.
This is an "oldy but a goody". Every guy I know wants to become the Incredible Hulk but not everyone has a productivity guru as successful as Tim. Thank you Tim for everything that you've done for us!
The TIM FERRIS IS FABULOUS talk...
I was thrown in the water at age three by my father, two options: sink or survival...swim. All of the physics he refers to sounds like white noise.
Just enjoy thrashing around and you get it.
Can i just say what a Gem Tim ferris is the value he shares is just golden
Best and the most practical TED talk I've found so far - no random fill-in BS; straight to the point.
so now you can swim, learn languages and do the tango
nice one
tim is a wizard
It's great someone is trying to change the American school system.
Tim Ferris is an excellent motivator for mankind!
Thank you TIM. I have no words for how you had and have helped me. Just Thank you. Stay Blessed.
Tim's book "The 4-Hour Work Week" is very inspirational. I am very interested in hearing and reading more from this man.
What a great and humble man.
Tim Ferris is the most interesting guy in the world. that's for sure!
Favoriate person of all time!
Perhaps after Elon Musk
@@saransh85 elon musk is just a pop celeb at this point.
the main topic that i got from this is that, he is showing you ways he got over his fears and how he made those fears into pleasures and that you can do anything if you try with effectiveness that works for you. and the way he is explaining it is by personal experience. its supposed to be motivating.
no matter what people say about his style/outlook/delivery, at the end of the day he is where few people are at, point blank! shame it's easier to criticize one another than to support and uplift each other.
This was inspirational. Tim Ferriss shows how natural it is to be supremely confident. It's not conceit.
Even though he comes across as bit too selfcentered and arrogant he makes a valid point. By studying and recearching different learning tools many things can possible that one often finds diffucult to master. There's nothing revolutionary about his speech, but he gives an empovering example about the possibility to learn something new at any age. Hey you don't have to like the guy to get something out of him. Conclusion is that often self doubt takes too much away from our potential.
The essence of this video is in the last 2 mins. All the rest is setting up the stage for the real message "Fear is your friend. What's the worst that could happen?"
You're AMAZING!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Read his book the 4-hour work week! thiS man is a living legend to entrepreneurs!
It was a great way to end the talk because the U.S. system is broken. In 2005 it ranked 48th just behind Poland. He said he was privileged to have access to a great education. He got to study in Japan as well which is a top ranked country for education. More Americans can achieve great things with a better education. His strength comes from a solid foundation/good education, and TED is a great audience to ask for assistance - lots of smart people.
This is the most impressive ted talk I have seen in ages.
Superb! I enjoyed his talk. His ideas are innovative, detal orientated, humble, and imaginative. It's a refreshing take on learning!
People hating on him... Read 4 hour work week, you're welcome
i did it, and conquered it, from being able to swim just about 5 minutes before drowning, to swimming 3.5 hours non stop, I am now comfortable to ocean swim 5 days a week for 1 hr daily. The underlying challenge is convincing yourself that you will not die until destiny dictates, without that you will not get the freedom swimming in the ocean.
I dont know, but I like listening to him sharing his experiences.
7:39
What?! His Japanese is impeccable. There's no non-Japanese accent.
Once you become fearless,you become limitless!!
Amazing.
A lot of it went over my head though. I'll have to watch it again. I didn't quite know what to take away from the languages bit. If anyone reading this could help me out that would be great.
I've never seen a man break and analysis information like that before wow!
Tim Ferris is the most underrated human alive.
tim ferriss is one of my new heros
Very good. I'm reading his book... Work in 4 hours per week (I think...)In Portuguese...I loved your methods. I have sure that I'll learning a lot with that guy. Now, I believe this man can dance Tango...
Well...I understand most things easily.
I "understand" what he's saying; I fail to understand what value he feels he has to offer. He ACTS as though what he has to say is wonderful and insightful. I don't UNDERSTAND why he thinks that.
I've gotta say, Tim Ferris truly understands how to capitalize on the limited time we have and I'm grateful he has passed down his wisdom to us.
tim is the MAN.
Excellently spoken
Basically what I got from this is: "EVERYONE COME SEE HOW GOOD-LOOKING I AM!" But really Ferriss is great.
Tim Ferriss is the man!
POWERFUL TIM FERRIS!!!!!!
I love this man.
Tim Ferriss is Amazing
Summary : ask advice .
Example , if you want to learn : language ask a polygot .
Football ask a coach.
Ask more questions , and pick , one which makes you reach your goals faster .
the REAL worlds most interesting man!
what this is about
1) there are goals outside of work
2) if you aren't good at something, you just haven't found the right method yet
3) you have to do your OWN research to find out what makes people professional athletes/dancers the best. (none of his swimming teachers taught him what angle to hit the water)
4) Fear is fun, its exciting and conquerable
Tim you rock man....
Tim is the man! Again another fun and different talk that takes a unique view.
hes the real micheal scofield!
At this point, he looks like a mix of Michael and the Tank. But now 2020, he looks like scofield lol.
Ted, great as always. The youtube channel that inspires me like no other!
How very inspiring this Tim Ferries is👍
"I don't get why this guy in on TED."
Couldn't have said it better myself. Still, it's great to see that some people have the time + resources to do all this, and make a living at the same time. I can only do either, not both.
15 mins information field talk. I enjoy listening to this kinds of talk where people share experiences and from it you learn something. I find only a few shows that does it. TED for youtube, Pioneers of Insight and The Tim Ferris show on podcast, then books like Rich Dad, Poor Dad and 4hrs work week.
Loved you 4 Hour Work Week! I've been studying Afrikaans on the Mondly Language App and I get a lot of the vocabulary words and failing 8th grade German has been a big help. I'm still having a hard with the roll of the tonque. Very gutteral! My best friend's stepson's name is Ulrich and try as I might I've been told it's very hard for an English speaking person to get the pronunciation correct. I try things that I don't know how to do just to see if I can get it.
I think cockyness is the key thing in this whole presentation except he's less cocky and more confident, him gaining confidence and putting himself out there and not shying away from things.
tim is the man
He was CEO of a sports nutrition/supplement company until he sold it in 2009. Corporations outsource in this world to make a profit. He's not cheap, it saves him money out of his company's profits. Running a business is a lot tougher than being a salaried employee, and if you don't have that experience than you can't say that's he is being cheap. He was smart enough to figure out how to make millions of dollars without a lot of work.
very cool. impressive determination met with strategic learning. 5 stars.
The point he makes is that if you systematize your thinking and approach to challenges, it greatly increases the ease of accomplishing. Yeah, that seems intuitive, but it still seems to completely pass people by. As he points out, even most swimming teachers do things incorrectly, because they never examine what they're doing, they just think that if they do it long enough, they'll figure it out intuitively. He's pointing out that practice, and even experience, will never trump deconstruction.
First Principles
"The best results in life are often held back by false constructs & untested assumptions. What happens if i do the opposite? for get what you know focus on what you don't. Implicit v. Explicit."
Material > Method.
"It is often times what you do not how you do it that is the determining factor. This is the difference between being effective & doing the right things & efficient or doing things well whether or not they are important."
Implicit v. Explicit
What are the implicit commonalities that experts don't seem to practice?
Parkinson law- "Competition. Dead line. The perceived complexity of a task will expand to fulfill the time allotted."
"Fear is your friend. Shows you what you shouldn't do, but most often times it shows you what you should do. What's the worst that could happen?" -- is all you need to learn to do anything.
After reading the 4 Hour Body I was left thinking most of it was plagiarised from expert physiologists. Now I realise that Tim Ferris' expertise is in finding the best experts and the best instruction.
He has charisma, you have to give him that, and that leads to inspiration. Voila!
I honestly believe that people saying, to quote a fellow commenter: "this is shit" don't get it at all. I think this is excellent.
Note to self: Stop reading the comments
for real though... so many trolls
""Just a college dude with a quality beard living in the expanse of barren land called Nebraska. Hippie. Hipster. Feminist. Me." hahahaha ok quesiton answered
I never read the comments
it looks like that there are no good comments, but this comment stop my procrastination, so thank you.
11:17 That's a totally crazy excerbation and It's real cause I ACTED LIKE THIS. I used to be king of freaking out and taking exaggerated conclusions, and overall ruining my life. My singing teacher used to to say that i was leaving very deeply into a shell or cave and very slowly, little by little, we were getting me out of there.
My development took off only when i accepted that i needed help and went to directly study on my behaviour, confidence and communcation videos and stoicism books. Before that i was so embaressed to actually search "how to speak confidently" that went on every tangent possible, focusing more on philosophy, science, psychology, fiction etc, and even though i learned a bunch of cool stuff it was very different than doing direct work (like trying to learn how to lift weights or an exercises by doing and studying anything except the thing itself. Lying that "it was close enough" but as anyone who lifts seriously will tell you, a C&P and Deadlift starting position are "close enough" but their intention are totally different.
This is the Material over Method he was talking, and It's real, we usually focus more on method (usually the way we've been doing things, Ali Abdaal talks about this in his Active Learning video) cause is easier and more confortable, learning is overwhelming, we want progress, so doing something is better than nothing. And this is not bad if you have trouble starting but you certainly need to polish you approach as you move foward (It's like Josh Waitszkin saying is never too late to foster a Growth Mindset).
15 mins seemed like a trip through the space-time continuum and twilight zone. Fascinating and inspiring.
idk why people downgrade anyone who is better than them. Stop being jealous and learn something
One of the best TT ever
It was interesting to hear him talking about efficient swimming, because I had a little competitive swimming training in middle school and the things he is talking about were all things my coach would yell at me about until I gained the skill to fix them (:
Why has this video not blown up
I love Tim Ferriss
Im afraid your trolling, but if your not; In addition to the attributes you mentioned, Tim Ferriss has written 3 NY times best sellers, hes an advisor for twitter, facebook, evernote, uber, all-american wrestler, chinese kickboxing champion, he had a succsessfull supplement company for 8 years and has been teaching everything from entrepreneurship to dating at the worlds largest forums. I cant think of anyone more accomplished in so many fields.
Great talk, one of the better from TED.
Tim for president!!
Powerful Tim Ferris!
1:23 Fucking bullies man... this made me teary eyed. When they do those things to you in early age it completely destroy your infancy and teens, especially if you don't have an educated supportive envinronment (like me), you grow up a scaredy cat.
To this day, age 24, after completely changed myself and becoming much more confident and skilled i still have those scars from a terrible childhood that feels like open wounds. Even if i don't remember vividly they became second nature and manipulate my behaviour into a cowardly and distrustful state in certain moments. Or in this case deeply shaken and empathetic.
As a lifetime poor swimmer, also born premature, this really helps. I will try these methods next time.
Tim, how do I get into what you're doing with your schools? I'm a home educator, life long student, and new biohacker. I recently taught myself photoreading and am practicing the Wim Hof Method. I've taught and I've tutored. I know I can do more and want to take my skills and experience to the next level.
the 1st thing you do is wait for tim to reply to your comment
i'm sure he'll reply within 2 years
so just sit tight
i asked tim a question in the comments section over 5 years ago and i'm still waiting, but i have faith he will get back to me - it may be as soon as tomorrow or next week
I do appreciate TF's take on fear. I'm sure he would say fear is simply a set of chains we put on ourselves which, in most cases, stop us from being great. He has liberated himself from it, and look what he has accomplished.
That said, huge egos like the one we see in this video disgust me, and are a potential side-effect of becoming fearless.
Which is more sickening though: living a fearful ordinary life, or living a fearless ego-driven great life?
What a genius!
I know nothing, I am a beginner, I ask a lot of questions and want to know more. That's the attitude.
I love T.E.D., Monterey, & Ferriss.
Absolutely brilliant guy. Probably more brilliant than a lot of the other TEDsters and very unassuming. He should be given one of those 1 hour slots, and hope we get to see a lot more of him
swimming lesson: submerge most of your body, put your hand down into the water at a 45* angle approximately, then extend forward and then pull back. the 'kick' is most to adjust your hips'.
Wow! There are a lot of comments that deconstruct Tim's lecture and bash his ego, message, and success. His book and lecture convey examples of what one is capable of if they are focused on analyzing and utilizing the most efficient and productive methods to accomplish a particular goal.
Your goals and desires don't have to be the same as Tim's to find useful information in his text.
Good luck to all the haters.
I love this! This video has everything
It ended on a note about efforts to improve America's education system.
The whole talk was about the effectiveness of various learning methods.
This is something Slavoj Zizek talks about in his book Violence, on the subject of liberal communists. A book that I am far beneath summarising but is definitely worth reading.
Learn with a mentor , break his big idea, put focus in 80/20, work hard and then overcome him.
Completely agree with you. This guy is the embodiment of selfish capitalism. He is brilliant at making money, and of course that's why he's revered so much as a business guru, but this doesn't impress me so much. All the money in the world doesn't matter when the only thing that money serves is making more money, and your huge ego. There are so many other rich entrepreneurs who actually give a darn about speaking, writing and selling things that are not themselves.
Hmm. That public school bit at the end sounded interesting (in addition to the rest of it). Fascinating.
His message is that when you learn to master something that you fail at you feel very good, like the hulk.
Incredible non-verbal skill