Tim Ferriss: 4 Science-Backed Tools That Rewired Decades of Childhood Trauma & Depression

every mental health complication or diagnosis is increasing. And I've worked with different scientists and done a lot of experimentation on myself, having grown up with multiple depressive episodes every year to see if there are root causes that we can address. And so I'll just throw out a few things that have been very, very helpful. First, there's brain stimulation. When I did this, I had months of no anxiety. Then there's something called Vegas nerve stimulation, and one of the most heavily cited scientists of the last 30 years has seen a wild collection of benefits. So let's talk about the Tim Ferris has become a performance hacking expert after speaking with over 800 influential voices on his podcast. Now he's taking the most valuable frameworks and techniques to help you optimize productivity, health. And performance.

Tim. The variety of things that you write about, talk about is so wide. So what is the question that most people should ask you? How do you break down complicated subjects and accelerate your ability to learn? Because time is one of our most valuable non-renewable resources. And so I have a framework that you can apply to any subject matter. Which consists of the 80-20 principle, which is picking the 20% to focus on that will give you 80% of what you want. For instance, there's hundreds of thousands of words you could learn. in Spanish, but with the most frequently used 1500, you can get to reasonable conversational fluency in almost any language in eight to twelve weeks. And if you figure that out, you're ahead of 99.9% of the world. What do you think is the question most people want to ask you? So there's a lot of questions around mental health. And I feel like I have a moral obligation to help people because I was uh sexually abused by a babysitter's son.

On a Weekly basis. I was this close. To killing myself. And it can have a lot of effects, but these are things that you can slowly chip away at, and instead of feeling like you're held captive by them, feel like

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