Tim Ferriss

Like, if the emperor has no clothes, I want to know that I'm naked.

Even though, in the moment, I might find it very annoying, right?

If I'm really attached to something, but...

You need those people around you.

So, what that means is they're very often old friends.

These are people I've known for 15, 20 years.

First met in sports competition or in school or something like that.

Then I would say it's really simple.

It's energy in versus energy out.

Because you might have somebody at a dinner party who's happy to tell you all your ideas are terrible, but that person's also terrible.

Or maybe there's just something slightly off, and your spider sense doesn't know what it is, can't put a finger on it, but for whatever reason, whenever you come away from them, you feel just 10% drained, and you don't really want to have a second dinner with that person.

I pay a lot of attention to that.

I feel like language, analysis, spreadsheets, all helpful, but relative to our entire

apparatus, that's really new.

So I pay a lot of attention to the millions of years of animal sensitivity.

If that's... And I used to be... I'm so... I used to view emotion and...

intuition is basically kind of horseshit for lack of better description like things that would always lead you astray therefore you need structured thinking and so on which there's a place for i'm not saying there isn't a place for it but if i get a weird feeling around somebody like i pay a lot of attention to that even if on paper they should be

You do pay attention to intuition.

I do.

I thought you... Okay.