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Dissecting Excellence: (Part 3) Day 60 of the 100-Day Tim Ferris Show Challenge

It’s 2 Months Already

When I started the Tim Ferris Challenge, 2 months ago, I had no clue about the journey I was about to embark on.

I am surprised at the consistency with which I have listened, made notes and soaked in the information.

So far, I’ve not missed a single day in the last 2 months. And I’ve listened to 39 hours of content. The number of new things I’ve learned is mind-bending. 🤯🤯🤯

It’s got me wondering if this is because I am experimenting and sharing results publicly. If that’s the case, I should start committing to more of my aspirations in public.

Here are the earlier parts of this challenge 👉🏾 Part 1 & Part 2.

Below is my result for the latest 20-day period. I’ve managed to:

• Listen to 12 episodes (they are getting longer).
• ~ 790 Minutes or 13 hours of content

Observations

1. If nothing else, my biggest takeaway from this experiment is my ability to make good notes. My process has refined and I’m able to retrieve a lot of the good stuff I’ve captured along the way.
2. I have a long list of books, movies, documentaries, essays, and activities to do.
3. My mornings are fun. I no longer linger in my bed and I want to get to my morning walks with the same amount of excitement as day 1. This has never happened.
4. A few episodes in these 20 days have been a bit disappointing. Especially, episodes 39–41.
5. My favourite episodes during this period are episodes #33 & #34 featuring Ramit Sethi. If you want to learn about Blogging, Sales, Email and personal finance — give them a listen. There are a lot of golden nuggets.
6. Episodes 30–32 feat. Tracy DiNunzio is fantastic especially if you want to learn about pitching and dealing with VCs.
7. For me, episodes with Tony Robbins also stand out. He singlehandedly fed 55 Million in 2014. If this isn’t inspiring, I don’t know what is.
8. I’ve started reading fiction again. Something that I was a little averse to in the recent past.
9. Tim Ferris’ blog is a great resource to search for good material to read and watch.

Questions I’ve been pondering

1. Is your life built around expectation or appreciation?
2. How to reach 7 million readers without advertisement? Maria Popova’s blog The Marginalian had 7 million readers per month in 2014 (it was previously known as brainpickings.org).
3. Billionaires can’t take a week off. Does excess money tie you or free you?
4. Are you letting success compromise the quality of your life?
5. How can you continue to follow a good plan rather than quitting the perfect plan?

Resources

The number of resources mentioned in just these 12 episodes far exceeds the number I can read in the whole year. However, as always, I am sharing a list of books, podcasts, documentaries and blogs I plan to read:

Books

1. Mindset by Carol Dweck
2. Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom — Tony Robbins
3. The Everything Store — Brad Stone
4. The Robert Collier Letter book
5. Iacocca: An Autobiography

Websites

1. TM (Meditation)
2. Bootsnall (Travel)
3. Freedom (Productivity)
4. 50emailscripts (Email templates to reach anyone. Paid service)

Blogs

1. The Psychology of Automation (personal finance)
2. 12 Lessons Learned While Marketing the 4-hour Body (Marketing)
3. The Most Successful Email I Ever Wrote — Derek Sivers
4. Hacking Kickstarter: How to Raise 100,000$ in 10 Days Mike Del Ponte
5. From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

Documentaries

1. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2. 2 Million Minutes

With that, it’s a wrap.

In case you’ve got ideas or want me to cover something different in the next 2 parts, I’d love to hear about it.

Please leave a comment with any ideas, feedback or thoughts you might have.

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