Daredevil Michelle Khare lives life to the extreme in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjBhEbq3-8xNkOTHp43W6gXEstJz7UhN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Challenge Accepted</a>, amassing more than 6 million followers and more than 1 billion views. Across the show, you'll see Michelle attempt everything from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcDr8_oleB4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tom Cruise’s Deadliest stunt</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UdXsm9gJ-s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harry Houdini’s water torture cell</a> to trying to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8cLu90cV20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">earn a black belt in taekwondo in only 90 days</a>.This episode is brought to you by:<ul><li><a href="https://fin.ai/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fin</a> powerful AI Agent for all your customer service: <a href="https://fin.ai/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Fin.Ai/Tim</a></li><li><a href="https://www.monarchmoney.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monarch&nbsp;</a>track, budget, plan, and do more with your money:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.monarchmoney.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" 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quantity: 8–10 episodes a year, scarcity as strategy, and building a defensible moat.</li><li>[00:31:47] “Hard choices, easy life.” — Jerzy Gregorek, calling the FAA 300 times, and why no one copies you when the barrier is insanity.</li><li>[00:35:32] Dartmouth to Google.org: the Fermi estimation faceplant and not getting the job.</li><li>[00:37:10] BuzzFeed as graduate school of the internet.</li><li>[00:40:37] Work for someone else first: My case against starting a company right out of school.</li><li>[00:47:28] The stolen book: Michelle pulls out a battered 2016 copy of&nbsp;The 4-Hour Workweek&nbsp;and reads her fear-setting chart aloud.</li><li>[00:51:10] “I’ve never designed my own rubric of success” — the nightmare, the repair plan, and what Michelle was putting off out of fear.</li><li>[00:56:59] Practicing poverty: studio apartment, stripped-down life, moonlighting for a year, then the three-month-savings leap.</li><li>[01:06:58] Kebab-shop destiny: meeting stunt coordinator Steve Brown in L.A. — now he does&nbsp;Avatar&nbsp;and straps Michelle to planes.</li><li>[01:09:04] Surface area for luck: Bill Gurley, Kevin Kelly’s sleeping bag, and Seneca on voluntary discomfort.</li><li>[01:12:44] Coach, mentor, cheerleader: the three-person Formula One team you actually need.</li><li>[01:17:20] The art of the cold email — and cold-calling the FBI tip line to meet “The Hollywood Guy.”</li><li>[01:21:55] Michelle’s three-paragraph, six-sentence formula for emails that open any door.</li><li>[01:26:15] My cold email playbook: the “via” trick, include your damn cell number, and why “Yo, Ferriss” is an auto-archive.</li><li>[01:36:24] The fake Tim Ferriss Podcast phishing scam: Zoom calls, screen access, and hijacked Facebook pages.</li><li>[01:40:58] Emailing Hank Green, Brandon Sanderson’s unpublished novels, and why your first cold emails are just practice reps.</li><li>[01:46:37] Michelle’s storytelling syllabus:&nbsp;Survivor, Snyder’s&nbsp;Save the Cat, and peer review of whatever went viral last week.</li><li>[01:48:44] The magic of Jeff Probst, and dissecting the bones of storytelling.</li><li>[01:53:12] John McPhee’s red-ink writing class at Princeton.</li><li>[01:58:38]&nbsp;Six Thinking Hats&nbsp;broke Michelle’s pessimism;&nbsp;Radical Candor&nbsp;taught her how to give feedback.</li><li>[02:07:20] The slinky org chart: Seven full-timers that balloon to 50 for a shoot, then compress right back.</li><li>[02:21:21] Scope creep, saying no to big checks, and why Michelle has never hit creator burnout.</li><li>[02:30:34] My&nbsp;No Book&nbsp;teaser: 850 pages on renegotiating commitments and getting back on the wagon.</li><li>[02:33:31] The Mindy Kaling manifesto: @MindyKalingFan,&nbsp;The Office, and shattering expectations for Indian women in entertainment.</li><li>[02:40:38] Wishlist shout-out: Norland College, where Mary Poppins meets Secret Service.</li><li>[02:42:48] Episodes Michelle would pay to relive.</li><li>[02:47:40] Episodes Michelle would pay to skip.</li><li>[02:52:15] Seven marathons, seven continents, one week.</li><li>[02:57:10]&nbsp;Free Solo, Alex Honnold in the creepy van, and things both of us would never do.</li><li>[03:00:38] Books gifted most:&nbsp;Radical Candor,&nbsp;The Great CEO Within, and Adam Grant’s&nbsp;Originals.</li><li>[03:01:21] Michelle’s billboard.</li><li>[03:02:45] A primetime Emmy run and parting thoughts.</li></ul>*For show notes and past guests on&nbsp;<a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>,&nbsp;please visit&nbsp;<a href="https://tim.blog/podcast-sponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" 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#860: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life

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#860: Daredevil Michelle Khare — How to Become a YouTube Superstar, Open Impossible Doors (FBI, Secret Service, etc.), Craft Jedi-Level Cold Emails, and Use Fear-Setting to Change Your Life

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