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Securities investments: not bank deposits, not bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value.[00:00:00] Start.[00:00:24] How to go from hyper-optimized to grounded .[00:03:46] Reinvention in your late 40s: there are more than two options.[00:07:45] Five meta-skills that will outlast the AI hype.[00:16:06] Benching the golden goose, and the post-sabbatical rules that survived.[00:21:05] Why male friendship is built shoulder-to-shoulder, not face-to-face.[00:25:04] Live: love for women authors (and a Mary Karr plug).[00:25:24] SAINT, TMS, and Ampa's one-day brain reset.[00:27:32] How to build a fanbase by being your authentically weird self.[00:28:50] Kettlebells, thrice-weekly lifting, and never getting injured.[00:30:34] Staying fit in mind and soul via the past-year review.[00:31:12] 4-Hour Body survivors and Occam's Protocol.[00:35:46] Spotting the future titan hiding in an average teen.[00:37:01] Vacation, burnout, or an outgrown life? Take a mini-retirement.[00:41:17] Kids, phones, and Jonathan Haidt.[00:43:40] Does AI kill language learning? What does a new language really give you?[00:53:35] Muted movies as late-night writing company.[00:54:13] Best sub-$100 buy — seven seasons of wholesome Pawnee.[00:55:34] Why two hours of walking fixes almost everything.[00:57:20] Sleep, unsexily solved: less water, more sun, more exhaustion.[00:59:21] Privacy as the new luxury in the age of shrinking fame.[01:02:40] Luxuries worth overspending on: massage, easy travel, and health.[01:07:24] The best defense against cognitive decline: exercise, exercise, exercise.[01:11:11] Parting thoughts.*For show notes and past guests on <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast</a>.For deals from sponsors of <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast-sponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast-sponsors</a>Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at <a href="https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/friday</a>.For transcripts of episodes, go to <a href="https://tim.blog/transcripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/transcripts</a>.Discover Tim’s books: <a href="https://tim.blog/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/books</a>.Follow Tim:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">twitter.com/tferriss</a>&nbsp;Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/timferriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">instagram.com/timferriss</a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">youtube.com/timferriss</a>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">facebook.com/timferriss</a>&nbsp;LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/timferriss</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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