#778: Q&A with Tim — What’s Next for Me, Asking Better Questions, Career Reinvention in The Age of AI, Practices for Joy, Getting Unstuck, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

I answer questions on how I’ve changed my mind around parenthood, what’s next for me and how I am thinking about next steps, how I find joy, how to live with urgency, my advice for career reinvention in the age of AI, avoiding complacency, and much, much more.

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[05:09] Q&A format and ground rules.

[05:35] My shift in perspective on parenting and fatherhood.

[08:14] New creative directions: games, comics, animation.

[10:30] Identity diversification.

[18:01] Simple pleasures: outdoor activities, meditation, archery.

[23:21] Using AI to keep questioning fresh and relevant.

[27:12] Breaking through periods of feeling unsuccessful.

[35:25] Exploring the fringes and growing personally over the past decade.

[44:52] Longevity protocols and handling grief.

[53:41] Coping with the loss of a pet.

[55:00] Ecstatic creativity à la Rick Rubin and CØCKPUNCH.

[01:03:37] Physiological awareness and self-regulation.

[01:08:48] Finding career relevance in an AI-transformed landscape.

[01:16:48] Parting thoughts.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out their habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply to your own lives. This time around, the format is going to be a bit different by a request. I am the guest in the sense that I took questions. It was an ask me
0:24.4	anything of sorts from people who supported my fan-supported model way back in 2019, believe it or not.
0:31.1	That was an ad-free experiment. Ended up returning to ads by request. That's a whole long story.
0:36.3	If you want to read about how that
0:37.5	went down, you can go to tim.blog slash podcast experiment. But the point is, we did a Zoom call,
0:44.4	and they asked me anything they want to ask. And we covered a lot of ground. I answer questions
0:49.9	about how I've changed my mind around parenthood, what's next for me and how I'm thinking about
0:54.9	next steps, how I find joy or attempt to find joy, how to live with urgency, my advice for
1:00.6	career reinvention or thinking about careers in the age of AI and all of the unpredictability
1:07.8	that entails, avoiding complacency, ruts, and so much more, which is not to say I
1:13.8	have all the answers, but certainly I explore a lot of my thinking in this, and I had a blast.
1:18.6	So I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and we're going to get right to it.
1:22.7	But before that, just a few words from the kind of people who make this podcast possible.
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