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Not to be confused with the science writerTimothy Ferrisor the musicianTim Farriss.
Tim Ferriss
Ferriss in 2009
Ferriss in 2009
BornTimothy Ferriss
(1977-07-20)July 20, 1977(age 47)
East Hampton,New York,U.S.
OccupationAuthor,podcaster,investor
EducationPrinceton University(BA)
GenreSelf-help,Physical fitness
Notable works

Timothy Ferriss(born July 20, 1977) is an Americanentrepreneur,investor,author,podcaster,andlifestyle guru.[1][2]He is known for his4-Hourself-help book series—includingThe 4-Hour Work Week,The 4-Hour Body,andThe 4-Hour Chef[3]—that focused on lifestyle optimizations, but he has since reconsidered this approach.[4]He also supports scientific research into psychedelic treatments.[5]

Early life

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Ferriss grew up inEast Hampton,New York,and credits his poor health in childhood for sparking an interest in self-improvement. At age 15, he spent a year in Japan as an exchange student.[6][7]He was a member of the wrestling team in high school.[8]After graduating fromSt. Paul's School,he attendedPrinceton University,earning a B.A. inEast Asian studiesin 2000,[9]then first worked in sales at adata storagecompany.[10]

Career

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In 2001, Ferriss founded BrainQUICKEN, an internet-based nutritional supplements business, while still employed at his prior job.[11]He sold the company, then known as BodyQUICK, to a London-basedprivate equity firmin 2010.[12][13]He has stated thatThe 4-Hour Workweekwas based on this period.[13]

Ferriss has been anangel investorand startup advisor.[14]He invested or advised in companies includingReputation.com,Trippy,andTaskRabbit.[15]He is a pre-seed moneyadvisor toUber.[16][17]In 2013, Ferriss raised $250,000 to invest inShypby forming asyndicateonAngelList.[18]Ferriss raised over $500,000 through his backers, andShypraised a total of $2.1 million. In 2018, Shyp shut down[19][20][21]andlaid offall its employees.[22]Ferriss was an advisor toShopify,[23]helping them to launch the "Build a Business" competition that fostered web-store startups in 2010 with a $100,000 prize.[24][25]He was also an investor inDuolingo[26]andTwitter.[27]

In November 2013, Ferriss began anaudiobookpublishing venture, Tim Ferriss Publishing.[28]The first book published wasVagabondingbyRolf Potts.[28]Other books includeEgo Is the EnemyandThe Obstacle Is the WaybyRyan Holiday,Daily Ritualsby Mason Currey, andWhat I Learned Losing a Million Dollarsby Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan.[29]

Also, in 2015, Ferriss declared a long vacation from new investing. He cited the stress of the work and a feeling his impact was "minimal in the long run", and said he planned to spend time on his writing and media projects.[30]In 2017 he stated one of the reasons he moved fromSilicon Valleywas that, "After effectively 'retiring' from angel investing 2 years ago," he had no professional need to be in theBay Area.[31]

A picture showing cover of one of the most notable works of Ferriss

Ferriss has written five books,The 4-Hour Workweek(2007, expanded edition 2009),The 4-Hour Body(2010),The 4-Hour Chef(2012),Tools of Titans(2016), andTribe of Mentors(2017).

In December 2013,The Tim Ferriss Experimentdebuted onHLN.The series focused on Ferriss'life hackingandspeed learningmethods. Although 13 episodes were produced, only a portion were shown on television.[32]Ferriss also hosted the 2017 TV showFear{Less} with Tim Ferriss,in which he interviews people from different industries about success and innovation.[33]In 2015, Ferriss acquired the rights to all of theThe Tim Ferriss Experiment's episodes. He distributed them on iTunes, where they were featured in the most-downloaded chart.[34]In 2016, Ferriss was listed inFortune (magazine)’s40 Under 40.[35]

Ferriss has publicly advocated the value of Stoicism and meditation, crediting it with helping him deal with hisbipolar disorder,[36][37]and states that his personal experience with psychiatric disorders and losing a friend to fentanyl drug overdose motivates his involvement in psychedelics research.[5] In 2017, Tim Ferriss gave the TED talk "Why you should define your fears instead of your goals".[38]

He reevaluated his earlier ideas in a 2020 interview with GQ, concluding that "not everything that is meaningful can be measured."[4]In his turn towards resilience and even spirituality, he recommended three books,Radical AcceptancebyTara Brach,AwarenessbyAnthony de Mello,andLetters From a Stoic (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium)byLucius Seneca.[39]He calls the last one, “My favorite writing of all time”.[40]

Ferriss is the host of The Tim Ferriss Show, an interview-centered podcast that has been running since 2014.[41]The podcast has more than one billion downloads.[42]Popular podcast guests includeBrené Brown,[43]Jamie Foxx,[44]Arnold Schwarzenegger,[45]Maria Sharapova,[46]LeBron James,[47]Margaret Atwood,[48]andMatthew McConaughey.[49]

In December 2022, Ferriss launched an NFT project about roosters named "The Legend of Cockpunch".[50]Sales of "The Legend of Cockpunch" NFTs earned more than $2 million, and proceeds were donated to the non-profit Saisei Foundation.[51]

Philanthropy

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Ferriss became interested in the potential of psychedelics due to personal experiences with depression, as well as bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction in his family.[5][52]In 2015, Ferriss metRoland Griffiths,who was leading research in psychedelics at theJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine,and organized a crowdfunding campaign to support Griffiths’ research into depression.[5]

In 2019, Ferriss contributed toImperial College London’s Center for Psychedelic Research.[53]That year, Ferriss donated more than $2 million to fund the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic & Consciousness Research led by Griffiths, and he organized an additional $8 million in commitments.[5][54][55]

In 2020, Ferriss donated $1 million to theMultidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studiesfor research intoPTSDtreatments using psychedelic-drugMDMA.He issued a $10 million challenge grant, and helped to raise a total of $30 million for the research by publicizing the challenge on his podcast.[56][57]The following year, Ferriss donated to promote psychedelic research at the Neuroscape Psychedelics Division at theUniversity of California, San Francisco,led byRobin Carhart-HarrisandAdam Gazzaley.[58]

In 2018, Ferriss founded the Saisei Foundation[59]to provide funding for early-stage science in the areas of mental health, life extension, and psychedelics.[60]In 2021, the foundation committed $800,000 toUC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics to create the Ferriss – UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellowship with authorMichael Pollan.[61]The fellowship provides ten annual grants of $10,000 each to journalists working on in-depth print and audio stories focused on psychedelics.[62]The Foundation also collaborated with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics atHarvard Law Schooland co-funded POPLAR, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation.[58]

Ferriss was a member of the National Advisory Council ofDonorsChoose[63]and, as of 2016, was a donor and a member of the advisory board ofQuestBridge.[63][64]In 2016, as part of a #BestSchoolDay campaign led byStephen Colbert,Ferriss funded all 145 classroom projects onLong Island,[65]as well as all the classroom projects inNew HampshireandSacramento, Californiawith DonorsChoose.org.[66][67]

Personal life

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Ferriss won a National ChineseKickboxingChampionship by technical knock-out,[8]and is the first American to hold aGuinness World Recordfortangospins.[10]

Published works

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  • Ferriss, Timothy (2007).The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.New York: Crown Publishers.ISBN978-0-307-35313-9.
  • Ferriss, Timothy (2009).The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich(Expanded and Updated ed.). New York: Crown Publishers.ISBN978-0-307-46535-1.
  • Ferriss, Timothy (2010).The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman.New York: Crown Archetype.ISBN978-0307463630.
  • Ferriss, Timothy (2012).The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life.New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN978-0-547-88459-2.
  • Ferriss, Timothy (2016).Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN978-1-328-68378-6.
  • Ferriss, Timothy (2017).Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World.New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.ISBN978-1-328-99496-7.

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  47. ^Davis, Scott (November 28, 2018)."LeBron James has a Detailed Sleep Plan, and his Trainer Says it's the Key to his 'Never-Ending' Recovery".Business Insider.
  48. ^Hayward, Andrew (April 27, 2022)."Author Margaret Atwood Wants Students to Envision Future Utopias – And Mint Them as NFTs".Decrypt.
  49. ^Gupta, Boshika; Pereira, Sergio (December 16, 2020)."The Tragic Real-Life Story of Matthew McConaughey".Grunge.
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