Take a listen to this chapter from Tim Ferriss’ book (5-star amazon user reviews), on his self-titled topic of “Lifestyle design”:
Different is better if it is more effective or more fun. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
This is a book with many “paradigm-shifting” concepts for consideration. The book is about “Lifestyle design” or how you manage your time: always to the point… and even quoting Yoda from Empire Strikes Back later in the chapter. I referenced Tim Ferriss in my past posts [see: 'Yabusame' video]. Tim’s approach is to deconstruct any convention and find and execute its hidden exploit for maximum effectiveness (-or- for “fun and profit” — the original title of his book was “How to deal drugs for fun and profit” regarding his foray into the brain nootropic supplement industry). Exploits no one dare touches… making Tim’s attempts seem perverse to the everyone looking at him. In the youtube excerpt above he talks how he became a kickboxing champion by exploiting the weight-class pairing system… by dropping and regaining, an uheard-of, two entire weight classes in one day:
Prior to his writing career, Ferriss served as an advisor to professional athletes and Olympians and was a National Chinese Kickboxing Champion, a title he won through a process of shoving opponents out of the ring for which he was nicknamed “sumo.”
He became champion without having to kickbox. The point is: you can play by the rules like everyone else and invest inordinate amounts of time -or- you can see things for what they really are and allow yourself to innovate and find an underlying solution instead. This allows you to bypass the odds, which are usually out of your favor, and even if the odds are in your favor, you inevitably reach an unfulfilling, done-to-death destiny. He talks about his own problems from his conventional-approach days in Chapter 1. Let me know if you have time to borrow this audiobook, and if you don’t have time to listen to it, then you should make time for this time-management book.
Tim is writing a new book, Becoming Superhuman, detailing his well-documented experiments on the limits and exploits of the human body — look forward to it. Check out his blog with his possibly dangerous (but of course not as dangerous as actual kickboxing) techniques:
How to Lose 20 lbs. of Fat in 30 Days… Without Doing Any Exercise
From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks
How to Lose 30 Pounds in 24 Hours: The Definitive Guide to Cutting Weight
