#857: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Maria Popova, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport, Craig Mod, and Debbie Millman

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. I'm recording this intro on the road. I have a bunch of very unusual stops around the world that I'll fill you in on another time, but right now Let's get down to brass tacks. We have a different format from my long form interviews. Many of us And this includes me, sometimes, feel like we're drowning in complexity, whether that's in boxes, oh my God, another app, another this, another that, or decisions, decision fatigue. Perhaps you're even slipping in and out of overwhelm. It happens.

Maybe you're overcommitted. You need to renegotiate. I have been there. Yet again. So I want to hit pause and ask a question. This was for me, but I thought it might also be helpful for many of you listening. What are one to three decisions? that could dramatically simplify my life in twenty twenty six.

How can I simplify? Simplify, simplify. And to explore that, I invited five listener favorites. Maria Popopa, Morgan Housel, Cal Newport. Craig Maud and Debbie Melman to chime in and to describe how they have simplified. Their lives. And you can find previous editions of this series.

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