Tim Ferriss

In order to solve problems, you have to have problems.

So I think humans are problem-solving machines, but the dark side of that is you can become a problem-seeking machine, problem-creating machine.

So these small things take on the proportion of something big, right?

It's kind of like, I'm sure a lot of people have the experience where it's just like, there's some...

old cat lady in the neighborhood who's part of the HOA, and man, is she just a pain in the balls.

Like, she's just like every... Okay, so-and-so didn't put out the recycling bin.

So-and-so didn't whatever.

It's because she doesn't have anything else to do that is bigger, right?

That is kind of forcing her hand.

So if you're really way up on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, I think it's easy to become more sensitive to slight turbulence in life, which is also part of the reason for practicing not just minimalism, not just necessarily poverty, but like subjecting yourself

to shared privation, right?

Like the things I do with friends are definitely type two fun, maybe type three fun, right?

It's like, sure, okay, we might do like a ski touring trip.

That's mostly suffering.

It's like, yeah, you're gonna spend an hour and a half going up the hill for six turns down.

Like if you just wanna ski, that's a terrible way to do it.

But you get through that experience.

You're stuck in a snowstorm.

It's whiteout.

I'm not, by the way, suggesting that everyone do this.