Tim Ferriss on The Practicality of Pessimism: Stoicism as a Productivity System. Ep 20

[zcxsx]

kinda wish it was more than 5 mins. was a bit fast for me

[anyoneanyone28]

the quotes are great but SOOOO distracting!!!!!!! 

[LordVito9]

sound is poor

[diegohpintado]

The video rocks, but the sound sucks.

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[Brainbust100]

All the quotes and the story he's telling is in the 4 Hour Workweek.

[Rocket33r]

That was surprisingly good. I already knew Tim, but there was a decent amount of useful stuff in here.

[jenipha]

fire the sound guy!

[ann37876]

working less getting more sounds like a goal !

[dwdewhurst]

The stunning weight of negativity in these comments suggest high leverage for those who get the point then act.

[wizsoft]

@dwdewhurst I agree; I like his line "that many of the fears you have, are based on undervaluing the things that are easily attainable"

[bradyforrest]

Unlike TED, Ignites are not filmed by the same crew. They are pulled from events around the world. In this case Tim was speaking at a Google event. The sound capture on the video was really poor. However, we felt that Tim's talk was still worth producing.

[phillipechols]

Thanks! I needed this. I shot it out on Twitter... @PhilEchols #BbetterTV

[gene15644a]

Very nice advice! Thanks for posting.

[quickenedspirit]

The timeline bar is debatable (didn't distract me), however the volume WAS too low. Lastly, in their (Ignite's) defense, the superimposed quotes likely were graphics of the (unseen) slides that Tim Ferriss utilized during his 5 minute presentation.

[nabiawada]

volume is so low even when cranked up :(

[jammadamma]

Hey,

this timeline thingie's got to go! The video has a timeline, that's enough. I'ts super annoying!

[OysteinRunde]

If this presentation is so speedy, why use 46 seconds to introduce it? If Tim Ferriss is interesting, why show quotes of Yoda on the screen? I had to look away from the picture to listen to his voice (sound is too low, btw) iGNiTe should simply learn from TED, and be confident that their guests are interesting enough without redundant grapics.

[SeanzieApples]

@OysteinRunde The guests choose the graphics themselves.

[elpymppe]

What are "all the big things [he's] been able to do," other than selling the notion of not having to do all that much?

[VintageRedMusic]

I agree... I like the concept of quick presentations, but timeline bar is crazy distracting.

[Meanstreak5150]

how many hours did it take Tim to write the 4 hour work week and promote it ? probably not 4 hours a week.

[robertocaesar]

@Meanstreak5150 Didn't you hear? at one of the steps you delegate, in most of cases you wheigh the cost of outsourcing vs the cost of doing it yourself. It's a kind of optimization where you change your mind that thinks that doing it all will increase your productivity. Nope. You will have to rescale the costs of that in terms of time. One way of seeing it would be assigning a real value to your time.

[johnnycache]

@Meanstreak5150 well the point isn't that you work for exactly 4 hours. the point is he freed the time he was devoting to one particular business, and used it for pursuits he found more fulfilling - some of which are still moneymakers (IE writing)

[marvel8216]

i cannot hear this either

[thinkchivalry]

my god there's no volume on this video, quite annoying

[marygrace0623]

@thinkchivalry I can hear the volume just fine -- is it just quiet on your computer maybe?

[JustCharlie]

Timeline bar does indeed suck.

[G0dex]

Timeline bar is super distracting, why even have it?

[RafaKBLudo]

@G0dex couldn't agree more

[PerennialLucidity]

lose the timeline - annoying and hard to ignore.

[AdlibEnglish]

Interesting but this is not an ignite presentation. The slides seem obsolete.

[mccarronjr]

Timeline bar is so distracting

[FLATCY]

this was, for me a scarey proposition...basically putting energy into the negative. this presentation is best "enjoyed" by just listening and not looking at the visual at all. Then maybe listening and taking notes but NOT looking at the powerpoint which, I agree is not helpful at all for the audience.

[marcdesm]

the little time line at the bottom is very distracting...and the bullets shown don't match what he's saying, so you have to read one thing and listen to another. Kill the cute stuff.

[86kinky86]

love this guy.

[mind4u2cn]

Tim Ferris always delivers powerful information that people may not be willing to accept. Too many people are misguided and believe that only positive wishful thinking leads to incredible results. I concur with Timothy on his well documented and remarkable findings.

[einerus]

not so impressive as other talks of him and not as dynamic as talks of other people at ignite. plus those quotes distracting from his talk aren't helping at all.

[RafaKBLudo]

@einerus

IF YOU ONLY APPLIED THE IDEAS HE PRESENTED, EVERYTHING WOULD MOST PROBABLY CHANGE FOR THE BEST FOR YOU.

It doesn "need" to be dinamic to be great.