Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2025-09-09
Books mentioned on #826: Q&A with Tim — Supplements I’m Taking, Austin vs. SF, Training for Mental Performance, Current Go-To AI Tools, Recovering from Surgery, Intermittent Fasting, and More
This episode is a solo Q&A session where I answer a bunch of questions. We covered a ton of ground, from personal health protocols to professional frameworks and creative projects.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is a classic children's novel about a poor boy who wins a golden ticket to tour an eccentric candemaker's magical factory.
Discussed“that is on my to watch list for Netflix, particularly since I just finished listening to Charlie in the Chocolate Factory by the same author.”
Where to get it
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie is a self-help guide offering practical strategies to overcome chronic anxiety and improve daily life.
Discussed“And this actually makes me think of Dale Carnegie and how to stop worrying and start living. Often step number one is more information.”
Where to get it
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Frank Miller’s Sin City Volume 5: Family Values 3rd Edition
Discussed“which is part of the reason why I put up that giant coffee table book which is a collector's edition of Sin City by Frank Miller because you get to see underneath the finished inking a lot of the pencil marks and the rubber cement and all of the white out and so on.”
Where to get it
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Fast Like a Girl
Fast Like a Girl by Dr.
Recommended“She wrote Eat Like a Girl and Fast Like a Girl all about fasting.”
Where to get it
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Eat Like a Girl
Eat Like a Girl is a nutrition and wellness book by Dr.
Recommended“She wrote Eat Like a Girl and Fast Like a Girl all about fasting.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The 4-hour Chef
“That won't surprise anybody who's read the 4-hour chef, which is confusingly a book about accelerated learning, but sequencing is the magic sauce, I think, for a lot of things.”
Own book The 4-Hour Body
“Polycosinol is the only thing the P of PG that I would put on the question mark chopping block if I were to update the 4hour body. That's the only thing in the entire book where I'm like evidence was split.”
Own book The 4-Hour Body
“and so intermittent fasting would certainly be if you were to ask me if you could only add one chapter to the 4-hour body, what would it be about? It would be about intermittent fasting.”
Own book The 4-hour Chef
“Honestly, and this is going to sound like I'm trying to prop up the book I told you didn't perform the way I wanted it to, but the 4-hour chef has got it all.”