#883: How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia’s World-First BreakthroughMy guest today is Tania de Jong, […]

#882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)This episode is a bit different. It’s a live, unscripted working s […]

#882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)This episode is a bit different. It’s a live, unscripted working s […]

#880: Relationship Tools That Work — Esther Perel, Brené Brown, Dr. Sue Johnson, Terry Real, and More on Conflict, Repair, and Lasting LoveThis episode is devoted to one […]

#879: How to Reinvent Yourself and Make Bold Moves — Decisive Stories from Matthew McConaughey, Steve Young, Samin Nosrat, and MoreThis is a special compilation devoted […]

#878: How to Start When You’re Stuck, Finish What You Begin, and Stop Waiting for Inspiration — Creative Advice from Elizabeth Gilbert, Seth Godin, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Lamott and MoreThis is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking hours: writing. Over the years, I’ve asked some of the writers I admire most questions like: How do you choose a project and stay with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up? How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? And how do you keep going when you fear your pages are terrible? Listen in to some of my favorite authors answer these and other questions. Please enjoy this special compilation on the craft of writing. This episode is brought to you by: ProLon science-backed Fasting Mimicking Diet that helps activate cellular renewal through fasting, while still eating nourishing meals AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement Timestamps: 00:00 — Introduction 01:52 — Elizabeth Gilbert: Choosing and committing to a project 06:25 — Anne Lamott: Shitty first drafts and taking it bird by bird 13:04 — Joyce Carol Oates: Don’t wait for inspiration 15:47 — Jerry Seinfeld: Building a writing system 26:27 — Mary Karr: Revision and throwing out 1,200 pages 35:08 — Brandon Sanderson: Consistency, word counts, and output 45:04 — Seth Godin: Fear of bad writing Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat, Pray, Love; Big Magic; and City of Girls. Her ten books have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Anne Lamott is the author of 20 books, including Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, and Help, Thanks, Wow, and co-author—with her husband Neal Allen—of Good Writing. Joyce Carol Oates has written more than 70 books, including Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys, and won the National Book Award for her novel them. Jerry Seinfeld co-created and starred in the sitcom Seinfeld—which ran nine seasons and won 10 Emmys—and later created Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and wrote Is This Anything?  Mary Karr wrote the bestselling memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit and her book on writing, The Art of Memoir.  Brandon Sanderson created the Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series, completed Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time, and raised more than $41 million on Kickstarter for four secret novels.  Seth Godin has written 21 bestsellers published in 40 languages—including Purple Cow, Linchpin, and The Practice—and a daily blog of more than 10,000 posts. * For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast. For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsors Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday. For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts. Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books. Follow Tim: Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss  Instagram: instagram.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss Facebook: facebook.com/timferriss  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferriss See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy# […]

#877: Q&A with Tim — The Art of Male Friendship, Mini-Retirements, Higher-Resolution Living, Reinvention in The Age of AI, and MoreIn this wide-ranging Q&A, Tim explores […]

#876: Dr. Andrew Huberman — Peptides, Performance, and ProtocolsAndrew Huberman, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and […]

#875: The Random Show — Tim and Kevin Talk Retreats, Mortality, AI Predictions, Supplements, Rock Climbing at (Almost) 50, and Not Waiting for “Someday”In this edition of The […]

#874: Guy Oseary — The Legendary Hollywood Power Broker on 5-Minute Decisions, 36 Years of Managing Madonna, 26 IPOs, and Spotting Magic FirstGuy Oseary (@guyoseary) has […]

#873: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) (Repost)For more than 40 years, David Allen has worked with individuals and organizations around the world to […]

#872: Graham Duncan — Talent Is the Best Asset Class (Repost)Graham Duncan (@GrahamDuncanNYC) is the co-founder of East Rock Capital, a multibillion-dollar multi-family […]

#871: The “Divine Leaf” with 8,000+ Years of Use — Exploring the Many Benefits of Coca with Dr. Andrew Weil and Wade Davis“Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to v […]

#870: Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis — Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Breakthroughs EarlySebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, The Power Law, The Man Who Knew, and The World’s Banker. His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. This episode is brought to you by: Eight Sleep Pod Cover 5 sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating: EightSleep.com/Tim AG1 Pro all-in-one nutritional supplement: DrinkAG1.com/Tim Wealthfront high-yield cash account: Wealthfront.com/Tim  New clients get 3.30% base APY from program banks + additional  0.75% boost for 3 months on your uninvested cash (max $150k balance). Terms and conditions apply. The Cash Account offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“WFB”) member FINRA/SIPC, not a bank. The base APY as of 1/30/26 is representative, can change, and requires no minimum. Tim Ferriss, a non-client, receives compensation from WFB for advertising and holds a non-controlling equity interest in the corporate parent of WFB, which creates a conflict of interest.  Individual experiences and outcomes will differ. Instant withdrawals may be limited by your receiving firm and other factors. Investment advisory services provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Securities investments: not bank deposits, not bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value. * Timestamps [00:00:00] Start. [00:02:11] The twinkly eyed polymath who became Sebastian’s next book. [00:06:55] Picking the next book project the way a great VC picks a startup. [00:09:41] Why God keeps crashing the superintelligence party. [00:11:13] Shane Legg’s grainy 2009 prophecy — and the nervous giggle. [00:13:11] Ilya Sutskever burns an effigy. [00:13:54] Demis at 4 a.m., hunting God’s algorithm. [00:18:43] Super-abundance, Mad Max, and the China shock lesson. [00:22:39] The kitchen debate with Geoff Hinton that flipped Sebastian. [00:24:06] Why a zero-percent chance of doom is indefensible. [00:24:52] Will Washington seize the labs? The Mythos wake-up call. [00:27:18] Anthropic’s bull case, bear case, and a dead parent’s letter. [00:33:24] Where Sebastian and Benedict Evans part ways. [00:38:16] Is the SaaS apocalypse overdone? One word: Palantir. [00:39:53] The AI friend you’ll never switch. [00:41:56] Does Google win consumer AI by default? [00:44:45] Four cities, eight days: China actually talks safety. [00:47:28] A Cold War non-proliferation playbook for AI. [00:49:45] Did the chip export controls actually work? [00:51:49] Burned doves: why Washington swears China won’t talk. [00:54:56] “By 2028, the race is over” — one lab boss’ bet. [00:59:11] Inside Hikvision: toddlers, sensors, and US sanctions. [01:01:07] Bill Gurley’s Uber bet: venture capital perfected. [01:05:18] Luke Nosek bear-hugs DeepMind into existence. [01:10:52] Thiel’s heresy: never invest by committee. [01:11:59] How Founders Fund nearly fumbled the deal of the century. [01:14:30] Selling to Google for $650M: a secret British heist? [01:16:41] The Traitorous Eight, gardening leave, and the UK’s to-do list. [01:20:55] Ender’s Game: “That’s really how I see myself.” [01:23:42] Too dumb for Gödel, Escher, Bach? Maybe an LLM can help. [01:25:19] If not Demis or Sam, then Dario. [01:26:04] My royalties cliff — and what dropped in late 2022. [01:27:47] Lila Sciences and the labs that run themselves. [01:31:13] Sebastian’s billboard: “Prepare your mind.” [01:35:14] The one thing Sebastian will never outsource to AI. [01:40:09] Parting thoughts. For show notes and past guests on The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast. For deals from sponsors of The Tim Ferriss Show, please visit tim.blog/podcast-sponsors Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at tim.blog/friday. For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts. Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books. Follow Tim: Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss  Instagram: instagram.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss Facebook: facebook.com/timferriss  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/timferriss See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-inf […]

#869: Max Levchin, PayPal and Affirm — The Path from The Soviet Union to Building Multi-Billion Dollar Companies (Plus: Real-World Socialism vs. Capitalism)Max Levchin […]

#868: Tim’s Founder Kitchen — From Brainstorm to The President’s Office in Two Months (Featuring Jake Becraft, Strand Therapeutics)Jake Becraft is the CEO and co-founder […]

#867: Dr. Becky Kennedy — Parenting Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids, Plus Word-for-Word Scripts for Repairing Relationships, Setting Boundaries, and More (Repost)Dr. […]

#866: Sami Inkinen of Virta Health — Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, Rowing 2,750 Miles, and Lessons from Fixing Metabolic Health in 100,000+ PeopleSami Inkinen (@samiinkinen) […]

#865: The Most Incredible Transformation I’ve Ever Seen — Jerzy Gregorek on Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Coaching, and the Power of Micro-ProgressionsJerzy Gregorek […]

#864: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Anne Lamott, Claire Hughes Johnson, David Yarrow, and Diana ChapmanMany of us feel like we’re drowning in i […]