#813: Q&A with Tim — Three Life Commandments, 4-Hour Workweek Exercises I Still Use, The Art and Joy of Inefficiency, Stoicism Revisited, and Much More

Hello, boys and girls, ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This is an in-between episode. So this is an episode between longer. deep dive interviews with world class performers. And in this case, I am being asked questions. I do these every once in a while. I enjoy doing them and we tend to cover a lot of ground. In this particular QA, I am answering questions submitted by a small group of test readers for My

latest book project, The No Book. If you want to see what that's about and see a few sample chapters, go to Tim dot blog slash the know book for more information. And you can check out that the community is now closed because we have a critical mass of people needed for providing edit feedback and book feedback and so on. But Might expand it once the book comes out. Who knows? This episode was all over the place. We talked about what my commandments would be if I were to start a cult, which I'm not, don't worry. Also talk about what my costumes would look like, what my cult uniforms would look like. The risks of delegating your thinking to AI, how I use and do not use AI in creative endeavors, stoicism, how I

Balance that with other types. Of philosophies. Perils of audience capture, how I think about platforms and audience. And so on. The exercises from the four hour work week that I still use.

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