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Tim Ferriss

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

I have no idea.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

But, like, you don't have to go very far to get into really terra incognita, like, unknown, there be dragons, waters.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

It's actually very easy.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

You don't have to get out into remote viewing or whatever, even though, again, I'm very, like, interested in that stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

But it's, like...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

just look at the placebo effect, which gets... Understandably, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Because people are trying to assess something, and that is the intervention in some of the RCTs that I fund, let's just say.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

But the fact that there are commonly people who produce the same effect, same magnitude of effect with a sugar pill or placebo or a sham surgery is incredible.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Incredibly strange.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

It is super, super strange.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

So I will say, not to be the broken record citing Richard Feynman and the it's easy to fool yourself, but it is easy to fool yourself.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

So it is a challenge to be

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

to attempt to be radically open-minded while also being suitably skeptical.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

Because there are a lot of Conners out there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

There are a lot of delusional people out there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

There's a lot of bad science out there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

There's a lot of pseudoscience.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science

God save you if you're getting all your health advice from Instagram.