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The Tim Ferriss Show · 2026-11-05 · 30 min · 5,156 words

Lucky #888 — My Tour of Designing Luck in China, Japan, and Korea

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Alrighty, hello, boys and girls, ladies and gents. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show. This episode Is a special one. It is number eight eight eight. That's triple eight. Sangaba. We're gonna talk about it. This is going to be

A rabbit hole of epic proportions and it's gonna get nerdy. It's gonna get very bizarre. And that's the point of the show is I can kind of do whatever I want to do. So I wanted to do something special for 888. I thought about doing some live casting of the Yi Ching, the oldest of the Chinese classics. It's a long story, maybe we'll come back to that, but Let's talk about luck. If you know anything about the Chinese ideas around luck. There's one number that stands out.

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