Episode · ChooseFI · 2025-08-03
Tim Ferriss on ChooseFI: books mentioned
Designing an Intentional Life | Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss didn't design a card game to make money—he did it because most games today actively prevent the kind of connection that matters.
Brad Barrett discussed The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, Die with Zero by Bill Perkins, and The 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss. Tim Ferriss discussed The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss, Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert, and The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Comfort Crisis
Discussed“And you know, you think about a book like The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter and talking about Misogi and these different things that we can we can undertake.”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Discussed“and the most underestimated underread chapter in the 4-hour work week is called filling the void and it's about this exactly.”
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Stumbling on Happiness
Discussed“And this comes back to stumbling on happiness by Daniel Gilbert.”
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Die with Zero
Discussed“I guess a roundabout way that I think about it in terms of uh the book Die with Zero by Bill Perkins.”
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The 4-Hour Body
Discussed“And I know yeah I I even still go back to your 4-hour body Tim it's hilarious I'm still doing the uh the myotic crunch and the cat's vomit...”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The 4-Hour Body
“For those of you who aren't familiar with Tim, he's the author of multiple best-selling books, including the 4-Hour Work Week, 4Hour Body, and Tools of Titans.”
Passing Tools of Titans
“For those of you who aren't familiar with Tim, he's the author of multiple best-selling books, including the 4-Hour Work Week, 4Hour Body, and Tools of Titans.”
Passing The 4-Hour Workweek
“For those of you who aren't familiar with Tim, he's the author of multiple best-selling books, including the 4-Hour Work Week, 4Hour Body, and Tools of Titans.”
Passing The 4-Hour Workweek
“I mean, I read the 4-hour work week pretty shortly after it was released.”
Plugged The 4-hour Chef
“like the 4-hour chef by my standards because it was boycotted and other reasons by, you know, was boycotted by a lot of retailers because it was the first major book out of Amazon publishing.”
Plugged The 4-Hour Workweek
“how could for instance some of the mini retirement options in the 4-hour work week be integrated into any type of fi journey right like what would that look like?”