I personally really love Tim Ferris and his book 4 Hour Work Week. I think that it was a great book and that he has a lot of knowledge to share. I was super excited to read the book Tribe of Mentors which is part of his series of interviewing the top people of the industry. Let me share a few things that I took away from this book.
So I will be sharing one thing that I liked the most in the health section of the book. He interviewed Lewis Cantley who was a professor at Harvard so he definitely is very knowledgeable about the research behind his statements. Cantley mentions that if he can have a gigantic billboard with anything on it, he would put “Sugar is toxic.” He mentions that sugar increases the risk of many other diseases such as cancer and that it evokes a desire for even more sugar. He mentions that sometime in the future we might have more deaths caused by sugar compared to cigarette smoking. Everything in the world loses meaning if we don't have health and this reminded me to eat healthy on a daily basis.
Of course Tim Ferris interviewed some super successful businessmen in his book. One of them is Ray Dalio who is the founder of Bridgewater Associates (evaluated at 150+ billion dollars). He mentions that learning to meditate really helps him and that he writes down his mistakes to really reflect upon them. This I found a little bit strange as most people really want to put their mistakes in the back corner of their brain where they don’t ever have to think about it every again. And maybe that’s what separates Ray from the regular masses.
And we can’t forget the interview with Gary Vaynerchuck in this book.
I think that his interview with Gary contains a lot of valuable information for young entrepreneurs. He writes "Macro Patience" and "Micro Speed" is what every entrepreneur should have. And really thinking about it, this applies to everyone. Everyone is worrying about what will happen in the future but never take action to create their future. If the time spent worrying about our future is spent creating our future, I think that we can all achieve a little more. He also mentions that when he is feeling overwhelmed, that he goes in a corner of the room and pretend that his family has died in a terrible accident because he starts to feel grateful for everything that he has. I think that this interview with Gary gave me a new perspective and made me grateful for all the things that I took for granted.
I think that this book is so filled with knowledge and insights from various people in different industries and would highly recommend checking this book out.
Special thank you to Houghton Mifflin for sending me a review copy of this book!
Talk to you soon!
So I will be sharing one thing that I liked the most in the health section of the book. He interviewed Lewis Cantley who was a professor at Harvard so he definitely is very knowledgeable about the research behind his statements. Cantley mentions that if he can have a gigantic billboard with anything on it, he would put “Sugar is toxic.” He mentions that sugar increases the risk of many other diseases such as cancer and that it evokes a desire for even more sugar. He mentions that sometime in the future we might have more deaths caused by sugar compared to cigarette smoking. Everything in the world loses meaning if we don't have health and this reminded me to eat healthy on a daily basis.
Of course Tim Ferris interviewed some super successful businessmen in his book. One of them is Ray Dalio who is the founder of Bridgewater Associates (evaluated at 150+ billion dollars). He mentions that learning to meditate really helps him and that he writes down his mistakes to really reflect upon them. This I found a little bit strange as most people really want to put their mistakes in the back corner of their brain where they don’t ever have to think about it every again. And maybe that’s what separates Ray from the regular masses.
And we can’t forget the interview with Gary Vaynerchuck in this book.
I think that his interview with Gary contains a lot of valuable information for young entrepreneurs. He writes "Macro Patience" and "Micro Speed" is what every entrepreneur should have. And really thinking about it, this applies to everyone. Everyone is worrying about what will happen in the future but never take action to create their future. If the time spent worrying about our future is spent creating our future, I think that we can all achieve a little more. He also mentions that when he is feeling overwhelmed, that he goes in a corner of the room and pretend that his family has died in a terrible accident because he starts to feel grateful for everything that he has. I think that this interview with Gary gave me a new perspective and made me grateful for all the things that I took for granted.
I think that this book is so filled with knowledge and insights from various people in different industries and would highly recommend checking this book out.
Special thank you to Houghton Mifflin for sending me a review copy of this book!
Talk to you soon!