Tim Ferriss

Doesn't matter how good your goal setting is if you've got the emergency brake on.

So that's, I say, the principal purpose.

Oh, yeah.

What do you do?

Well, part of the reason I do the fasting too, I might do like seven to 10 day fasts.

certainly try to live a very minimalist existence for weeks at a time throughout the year to remove

the hedonic treadmill that we're all vulnerable to, right?

It's like, man, if you live where we're sitting, right, in the United States, not for everyone, but broadly speaking, it's like, if you were born here, my God, did you win the lottery, right?

And you look at these comforts and amazing privileges and...

it's easy to believe that whatever your kind of latest level of comfort is that that is necessary for happiness that is necessary for safety that is necessary for fill in the blank and by and large it's just not so i really try to

You know, get out in the woods, get filthy, do something hard, experience some physical pain.

Not excessively so, but just like through training and so on, you're like, okay, yeah, a little bit of pain, a little bit of fasting.

If I lost, you know, half what I have, 75, 80, 90% of what I have, I'm fine.

So, it doesn't mean you just go to Vegas and put it all in black.

It doesn't mean that.

It means that a lot of these things you're considering

if they go totally wrong and it's actually surprisingly hard to fail completely if you're pretty smart and have some ability to improvise completely survivable right and for a lot of what i do you just you you don't make it unless you have that

unless you cultivate that view on things.

And you can't be stupid and reckless, but it's like in startup investing, it's like 70, 80% of those are gonna go to zero, even if you put seven to 10 years in, right?

And so I like startup investing as a metaphor for life because you don't need to get a lot of things right.