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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I would say... someone who is genuinely part of...
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
some mystic tradition who has never been on a podcast, but who is a good communicator.
The Shawn Ryan Show
#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And, you know, we talked very early on about Scripture, and you were like, Scripture?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
If you look at the Christian mystics, you look at, say, Sufism within Islam, you look at, you know, Kabbalah and so on within Judaism, it's like,
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
When you start to read even the poetry produced by all three, they seem very, very similar.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And having someone on who could speak intelligently
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
and they need to be good with words to do this, but to describe their firsthand experience of the divine, I think would be a service to listeners.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
So that would be one.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Love that idea.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Yeah.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I'd say second, I'm trying to really go off menu here.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
So you've covered a lot of ground I enjoy already with a lot of your interviews.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I would say probably dealer's choice, meaning you're the dealer, but old traditions, like really old traditions who have not been exposed or picked over by a lot of other podcasts.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And that could be just about anything, because my approach to, you know, whether it's investing, exploration, it's kind of a barbell approach, like Nassim Taleb's investing, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
Like super, super safe or super, super speculative is how I...
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
I'm not saying everybody should do that.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
But also, with respect to my own intellectual exploration and scientific exploration, I'm like, I'm typically cutting edge, or I'm looking at things that have been around for hundreds or thousands of years that are durable.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
And I think exploring the really old stuff is interesting.
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
So the mystics are kind of one example of that, right?
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#274 Tim Ferriss - Life-Changing Practical Wisdom Backed by Experience and Science
This has just been a consistent feature of humanity for millennia.