Tim Ferriss

But, like, when your clock is up, your clock just might be up.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that, um,

Most of us, if we're attempting to have healthy social fabric, live within the context of a society or a culture, and there are certain norms, there are certain expectations, there are certain rewards.

And it's very difficult and also probably undesirable to operate completely monastically outside of all of that.

But what that means is at every turn, every moment, you will have temptation to do something that is probably not serving your long-term interests.

Yeah, so I would say... In the last... I'll back up and just say, in the last...

10 years in particular, I've been exploring a lot of the U.S.

It is a huge country with so much diversity.

And I don't mean diversity in the DEI sense.

I mean diversity in the cultural sense, where if we take culture to be a shared set of beliefs and behavior, it's like going to Louisiana versus going to Upper Peninsula, Michigan versus going to Maine

they might as well be different countries.

Sure, we ostensibly have the same language, but they're really, really different.

So, I think the... the default baseline of happiness that I observe throughout the U.S.

varies quite a lot.

But I would say, if we're looking at countries, I don't know if I'm gonna get myself into hot water with some folks, but this is just what I've observed.

I would say that...

where you have rich social fabric and human interactions combined with some sense of safety.