1998
As a Princeton student around 1998 or 1999, Tim Ferriss wrote a junior paper comparing REM sleep and LSD.
“One of my junior papers was focused on examining potential similarities between REM sleep and, uh, LSD, LSD 25”
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Tim Ferriss
22 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2007
In 2007, shortly before his first book came out, Tim Ferriss attended in-person events such as South by Southwest to meet people.
“This is what I did in 2007, which was just prior to the 1st book coming out, and I would go to these various in person events.”
2012
Tim Ferriss returned to psychedelics around 2012 to 2013 while still struggling with major depressive disorder, after seeing a girlfriend change through ayahuasca.
“I didn't revisit that until, let's call it 2012, 2013, where I was still struggling with major depressive disorder.”
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Tim Ferriss used the writing program Scrivener, designed mainly for screenwriting, to organize research and drafts for The Four Hour Body.
“But I was using at the time, and I still like to use a program called Scrivener, which is actually designed predominantly for screenwriting.”
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While writing The Four Hour Body in San Francisco, Tim Ferriss trained mostly at a climbing gym called Mission Cliffs.
“At the time, I was training mostly at a climbing gym called Mission Cliffs.”
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Tim Ferriss says he writes best late at night, roughly from 10 pm to 4 am.
“But I have always performed best with my writing in those witching hours of, let's call it ten pm to four am.”
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A platelet-rich plasma injection in Tim Ferriss's elbow pushed staph bacteria into the joint capsule and required an ER visit.
“And so it pushed uh, staph bacteria from a middle layer of the skin into the joint capsule.”
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Tim Ferriss's slow carb diet tells followers to avoid liquid calories and white foods and to eat 30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking.
“Don't drink calories, don't eat anything white, and then eat thirty grams of protein within thirty minutes of waking up.”
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The slow carb diet bans fruit and fructose during the week and allows one cheat day weekly.
“Do not eat fruit or fructose, and then cheat one day a week.”
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Early in his career Tim Ferriss volunteered with groups such as the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs to meet people.
“So I put myself in Silicon Valley and then I began volunteering for groups like S Base. I don't know if it exists anymore, the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs.”
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Tim Ferriss says his depressive episodes fell from about three to four a year to about one every two years after his psychedelic and other interventions.
“I would say, instead of three to four times per year on average, I probably have one depressive episode every two years.”
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Tim Ferriss's first personal check to science went to Adam Gazzaley's lab at UCSF, which worked on software to reverse age-related cognitive impairment.
“the 1st check I ever wrote was personally to Adam Ghazali's lab at UCSF,”
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Tim Ferriss crowdfunded a Johns Hopkins pilot study of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.
“I decided to crowdfund for a Hopkins pilot study looking at psilocybin for treatment resistant depression.”
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Tim Ferriss says the name of his Psycei Foundation means rebirth in Japanese.
“Psycei can mean a lot of things, it means rebirth in Japanese.”
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Michael Pollan and Tim Ferriss partnered on a psychedelic journalism fellowship at UC Berkeley, funded by Ferriss's foundation.
“Michael Pollan and I partnered on this, and my foundation funded it.”
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Tim Ferriss says he has done multiple water-only fasts in nature, usually seven days, alone and without talking, reading or writing.
“I have spent a number of extended fasts in nature, just like water only, by myself, no talking, no reading, no writing.”
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Tim Ferriss says his Cock Punch NFT project raised almost $2 million for his foundation and sold out in roughly 30 to 40 minutes.
“it raised almost 2 million, sold out in something like 30 min or 40 min.”
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Tim Ferriss says The Legend of Cock Punch fiction podcast reached number one in fiction on Apple Podcasts.
“It hit number one fiction worldwide on Apple Podcasts for a while.”
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Tim Ferriss says a library notice about a reserved book at Princeton's Firestone Library reached his mother and interrupted his suicide plan in college.
“I had tried to reserve a book at Firestone Library. This is at Princeton, which had something to do with suicide.”
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Tim Ferriss says he was sexually abused as a young child by a babysitter's son and kept it private for most of his life.
“I had been sexually abused when I was a kid by a babysitter's son from two to four, roughly and routinely”
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Tim Ferriss recorded a podcast conversation about abuse and recovery with his friend Debbie Millman.
“So I asked my friend Debbie Millman, who had been on my podcast.”
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James Clear recounts a story from Josh Waitzkin on Tim Ferriss's podcast about being woken from sleep minutes before a martial arts event and switching on instantly.
“he was actually asleep on the like, bench on the side, and they came over and woke him up.”
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