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Want to hear an episode with someone else who might not have written their first book had it not been for the guidance of Anne’s Bird by Bird? Listen to my conversation with Ramit Sethi in which we discuss savvy negotiation, renting versus owning property, sensible financial decisions that seem frivolous at first glance, game-changing conveniences and lifestyle upgrades, the pros and cons of the prenuptial agreement, reducing decision fatigue, and much more!

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Connect with Anne Lamott:

Twitter | Facebook | Instagram

SHOW NOTES

If it weren’t for Bird by Bird, Anne’s book on writing, I may have never written my first book — and I know others who say the same. What is it about Bird by Bird that has affected so many people so deeply? [06:41]
Where did the title of Bird by Bird originate? [10:10]
How Anne’s husband, fellow writer Neal Allen, works to help people tame (but not discard) their inner critic. [12:44]
Who controls the dial when you’re tuned in to KFKD radio? [13:59]
For my fiction-writing aspirations, Anne recommends a butt-in-chair approach and explains how her childhood with a writing father in the house instilled this discipline in her — but not without a heavily dysfunctional toll she’s spent her life learning to take back. [15:06]
What does being “spiritually fit” mean to Anne? [22:25]
Was there a particular catalyzing event that brought radical self-care into focus as an imperative for Anne? [28:05]
The dark night that turned Anne’s son Sam’s life around. [35:50]
An episode of Sam’s podcast I recently enjoyed immensely and recommend. [41:32]
When grace found Anne during her three-day blackout, and what it felt like. [42:35]
Coming to terms with childhood “oversensitivity” and Tom Weston’s five rules for being a grown-up that changed Anne’s life. [47:41]
From her own work, are there any lines, concepts, or passages that jump out for Anne as being definitive of her life philosophy? How would she follow her own advice in this instance? [51:01]
Anne sets the record straight with a Tom Weston quote that often gets misattributed to her. [56:34]
What has been helpful in treating Anne’s anxiety disorder? [57:20]
Where did Anne pick up her habit of writing in silence, and what other rules and rewards does she attach to her process? [1:02:29]
How recalling just one vivid, life-changing instance from my college days might be used as a writing exercise, and Anne’s new “pod” trick. [1:06:19]
What to remind yourself if you’re tempted to spare the feelings of others who feature in your autobiographical scrawlings. [1:11:13]
If you’re a writer struggling to find your story’s direction, these are the questions Anne recommends asking the characters who inhabit that story in order to keep the words flowing. [1:13:22]
What was it like for Anne to have a documentary made about her (by an Academy Award-winning director, no less), and why did she agree to do it in spite of her discomfort over being captured on film? [1:19:24]
Anne explains the meaning and unlikely origin of what she considers to be the greatest prayer, and what its gift really is. [1:24:24]
Does Anne pray as needed, or per a set routine? What is the purpose of these prayers? [1:30:24]
Who is “Horrible” Bonnie, how did she enter Anne’s life, what wisdom has she imparted to Anne, and what earned her such a memorable moniker? [1:34:49]
How did Anne arrive at Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage as the title of her new book? [1:41:12]
A writing prayer. [1:45:07]
We share our all-time favorite movies. [1:46:59]
Parting thoughts and a final, quick story about grace and goodness. [1:53:48]

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Dr. Andrew Huberman — A Neurobiologist on Optimizing Sleep, Enhancing Performance, Reducing Anxiety, Increasing Testosterone, and Using the Body to Control the Mind (#521)https://tim.blog/2021/07/06/andrew-huberman/https://tim.blog/2021/07/06/andrew-huberman/#commentsTue, 06 Jul 2021 17:21:49 +0000https://tim.blog/?p=56369 Artist's rendering of Dr. Andrew Huberman

Artist's rendering of Dr. Andrew Huberman

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“Use the body to control the mind.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

Andrew Huberman, PhD (@hubermanlab), is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine. He has made numerous important contributions to the fields of brain development, brain function, and neural plasticity. Andrew is a McKnight Foundation and Pew Foundation fellow and recipient of the 2017 Cogan Award for his discoveries in the study of vision. Work from the Huberman Laboratory at Stanford Medicine has been consistently published in top journals including Nature, Science, and Cell.

Andrew is host of the Huberman Lab podcast, which he launched in January of this year. The show aims to help viewers and listeners improve their health with science and science-based tools. New episodes air every Monday on YouTube and all podcast platforms.

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Connect with Dr. Andrew Huberman:

Website | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram

SHOW NOTES

Why might vision be a secret to surviving 2020 — or any year, for that matter? [05:41]
Visual considerations for optimizing sleep quality. [15:11]
A simple new routine that’s been elevating my mood in the mornings, and what Andrew recommends for timing circadian biology to, as wise bards of yore have proclaimed, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. [18:25]
When is the ideal time to get morning light exposure, and how can we use an understanding of our body temperature minimum to shift our circadian clock if we want to avoid jet lag and the impact of working at odd hours? [23:55]
Why Andrew is not a fan of melatonin as a sleep aid, and what he recommends instead. [31:03]
Andrew’s thoughts on taking phosphatidylserine before sleep to help blunt cortisol release, and what he uses to similar effect. [37:15]
The real reason why Andrew applies the term NSDR (non-sleep deep rest) to yoga nidra and a free hypnosis app called Reveri, and the value someone might find in their practice no matter what they decide to call them. [42:26]
What are physiological sighs, and how can we use them at any time to reduce stress without the burden of preparation other protocols demand? [47:43]
Andrew explains what hypnosis is and determines how susceptible to it I would be. [52:26]
What are some of the most practical applications of hypnosis, and do the states induced by it have any shared characteristics with those induced by psychedelics? [56:27]
Considering the future of beneficial brain change and the synergestic combinations that might just get us there. [1:04:06]
With a past that wouldn’t suggest a tenured future in academia and a penchant for fighting, what happened to Andrew on July 4th of 1994 that changed the trajectory of his life? [1:07:58]
Why taking a leave of absence from university isn’t the same thing as dropping out — no matter how many tech founder origin stories like to paint their subject in the glamorous, devil-may-care light of the latter rather than the pragmatic former. [1:15:02]
How Andrew’s “magical” childhood pivoted to one of tension, disruption, and depression almost overnight, and what he did at the time (and in many ways is still doing) to cope. [1:17:38]
What is the Hoffman Process, and how has it helped Andrew? [1:28:44]
If Hoffman was just one of four or five things that had a disproportionately positive impact on Andrew, what are some of those other things? [1:33:00]
On pets and mortality, canine research with rapamycin, and why any scientist gunning for a Nobel Prize might not be amiss by changing their surname to Sabatini or Kornberg. [1:37:46]
If you like tales of adventure, listen to Andrew talk about that time he went exit cage diving with great white sharks, a bunch of madmen in Mexico, and breathless undersea technical difficulties — for science! Then marvel at what he did to purge himself of the fear, anxiety, and trauma of the experience. [1:39:11]
How does Andrew define fear, and has he always been fascinated by it? [1:47:00]
What is turmeric’s effect on DHT? Would finasteride (Propecia) behave similarly? [1:50:15]
Underscoring how powerful DHT is with the phenomenon of the Dominican Republic’s guevedoce. [1:55:57]
Does Andrew think a compound responsible for DHT inhibition could influence the gender of a pregnant woman’s offspring? A late colleague’s story might have some answers. [1:57:44]
What does Andrew recommend for optimizing testoterone? [2:00:05]
It’s very hard to get a biological free lunch: the perils of testosterone replacement therapy and other testosterone-boosting efforts done haphazardly. [2:05:45]
Why messing with hormone balance can actually accelerate aging. [2:09:44]
Andrew’s thoughts on cognitive enhancement from the pharmacological/supplement side. [2:12:27]
Why yerba mate is my favorite caffeine vehicle, and a recommendation from Andrew. [2:15:09]
Why you might benefit from waiting 90 minutes to two hours after waking to ingest your first cup of caffeine, and what we can learn from Roland Griffiths’ excursions into the realm of caffeine research. [2:16:43]
Is there a way to counteract the effects of caffeine? [2:18:24]
What is the vagus nerve, and why is it fascinating on the fronts of physiology and psychiatry? [2:21:57]
What books has Andrew gifted most to other people? [2:28:43]
What would Andrew’s billboards say? [2:31:20]
Parting thoughts. [2:34:05]

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Michael Pollan — This Is Your Mind on Plants (#520)https://tim.blog/2021/06/28/michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind-on-plants/https://tim.blog/2021/06/28/michael-pollan-this-is-your-mind-on-plants/#commentsMon, 28 Jun 2021 15:41:27 +0000https://tim.blog/?p=56318 Artist's rendering of Michael Pollan.

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“How incredible is it that plants have evolved the precise molecular key to unlock your consciousness?”
— Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the author of eight books, including How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan teaches writing at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, Time magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world. His newest book is This Is Your Mind on Plants.

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Want to hear what Michael and I discussed the last time he visited? Listen in on our conversation in which we discussed the psychological risks of psychedelics, brushes with ego death, why we shouldn’t consider psychedelics to be a panacea for all ailments, where someone might best allocate investment dollars in the woefully underfunded field of psychedelic research, and much more.

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Connect with Michael Pollan:

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

SHOW NOTES

Michael’s love for gardening and where his engagement with nature began: an origin story. [05:52]
Why was now the right time for Michael to write This Is Your Mind On Plants, and what are the three plants on which it focuses? [12:31]
What plants or molecules did Michael consider as candidates that didn’t make the cut, and why? [17:06]
What we know about the criminalization of certain drugs during the Nixon administration, and how it was a purely political move rather than addressing any concerns over public health. [19:38]
Who is Jim Hogshire, how did he wind up on Michael’s radar, and how did Michael then wind up on the radar of law enforcement? [24:56]
To what extent does Harper’s Magazine owner Rick MacArthur use his vast fortune to defend First Amendment rights, and does his generosity generally extend to the welfare of the magazine’s staff? [38:59]
The irrationality and hypocrisy of the war on drugs and why prohibition is a losing strategy for ensuring public health and safety. [42:44]
How the conversation around psychedelics as therapy has been embraced by the mainstream at such a rapid pace since Michael researched and wrote his last book, How to Change Your Mind. [48:38]
How is mescaline unique from other psychedelics such as psilocybin or LSD, and what makes it challenging for the purposes of research and therapy? [58:39]
Another mescaline challenge: a dwindling supply of slow-growing peyote and conflict between Native Americans who consider it a sacrament and people who think all psychoactive plants should be decriminalized and available to all. (The good news: there are alternative, more abundant sources of mescaline, such as the San Pedro cactus.) [1:02:52]
Obstacles Michael had to hurdle over the course of writing This Is Your Mind On Plants, and how he experienced mescaline when the pandemic prevented him from taking part in a peyote ceremony with the Native American Church. [1:09:10]
A long-pending reckoning society’s about to face: after the drug war, what does the drug peace look like? [1:12:37]
For what practical applications does Michael imagine decriminalized mescaline might be ideal? [1:17:08]
In 50 years, when psychedelic therapy is accepted and commonplace, what effects will new and modified molecules be created to prompt? Will it be possible to elicit the neurological benefits of psychedelics without forcing us to consciously endure the accompanying experience? Will we still have a use for unmodified psychedelics in their original forms? How will the market dictate psychedelic applications, and what can we do to safeguard against capital-driven abuses of these compounds? [1:19:42]
Michael talks about his involvement with the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), its priorities, and the steps being taken to ensure its unique contributions will benefit the entire field of psychedelic research. [1:26:53]
What the Ferriss UC Berkeley Journalism Fellowship has been set up to provide for young and aspiring journalists seeking to inform a curious public about psychedelics, and how said journalists might apply when it launches in the fall. [1:28:43]
How a similar fellowship Michael started helped launch the career of a young journalist who’s now a New Yorker staff writer, podcaster, and upcoming author. [1:32:40]
Why supporting quality journalism in the psychedelic space right now is so important. [1:35:30]
Why do people in the UK prefer tea, whereas people in the US tend more toward coffee for their source of caffeine? [1:36:32]
How important caffeine was to the rise of capitalism. [1:39:20]
What going off caffeine for a few months did for Michael, and why sleep researchers often abstain from it in spite of its numerous benefits. [1:41:30]
What do words like “sobriety” and “consciousness” really mean when 90 percent of the population, worldwide, is under the constant influence of caffeine? While beneficial to the advancement of our civilization, is caffeine a boon or bane to our species? [1:43:57]
My experience with coffee culture in Japan. [1:45:50]
What we can expect from the upcoming Netflix documentary series based on How to Change Your Mind. [1:47:33]
Michael’s tips and recommended resources for the novice gardener. [1:49:23]
One important correction on the John Jeavons book Michael referenced: it’s actually titled How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine [1:54:33]
Parting thoughts. [1:55:02]

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Françoise Bourzat — The Maven of Consciousness Medicine (#519)https://tim.blog/2021/06/23/francoise-bourzat/https://tim.blog/2021/06/23/francoise-bourzat/#commentsWed, 23 Jun 2021 14:18:19 +0000https://tim.blog/?p=56267

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“It is an insult to the potency of this inner work to not take the time to integrate what has been revealed.”
— Françoise Bourzat

Françoise Bourzat (@Francoise_Bourzat) has been bridging the divide between Western psychology and indigenous wisdom in collaboration with healers in Mexico for the past 30 years. She is a co-founder of the Center for Consciousness Medicine, which trains people to become guides in a holistic method of psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is also the coauthor of Consciousness Medicine, published by North Atlantic Books.

Françoise served on the advisory board for the Oregon Prop 109 initiative and is currently helping to design training for future facilitators of mushroom experiences. She is also collaborating with the Pacific Neuroscience Institute in Santa Monica, California, in an FDA-approved research study on psilocybin-assisted therapy for COVID-related grief. She leads mushroom ceremonies and retreats in Jamaica for bereaved parents.

She has a Master of Arts in somatic psychology and is trained in the Hakomi Method. Françoise has taught at CIIS in San Francisco, and she lectures at other academic institutions, such as Yale, Stanford, and UCSF. She runs online courses and contributes to advisory boards and organizations offering value-aligned trainings on the topic of mushroom ceremonies.

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P.S. During this podcast, Françoise shares few stories of people participating in her retreats, and she wishes to inform the listeners that these people have given her consent to speak about them and their experiences.

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Want to hear another episode with someone who understands the growing need for well-trained psychedelic therapists? Listen in on my conversation with psychotherapist and installation artist Marcela Ot’alora, in which we discuss why psychedelic therapy is probably less sexy and more difficult than you think it is, resolutions to particularly trying sessions, how psychedelic therapy is like alchemy, what separates a good psychedelic therapist from a great psychedelic therapist, how you can take the first step on the path to becoming a psychedelic therapist if you think you’ve got what it takes, and much more.

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Connect with Françoise Bourzat:

Website | Twitter | Instagram

SHOW NOTES

How did Françoise come to lead mushroom ceremonies and retreats in Jamaica for bereaved parents, and how has the experience helped them through the grief process? [05:39]
How did an early experience in north Thailand prove to be formative for Françoise, and what helped her process the trauma of that experience and the difficult decision it forced her to make? [08:43]
How did psychedelics — particularly MDMA — really initiate Françoise’s healing process? [21:03]
In Françoise’s estimation, how crucial was the presence of a skilled guide to take her through these healing psychedelic experiences? To what does she attribute the skill her own guide wielded? [26:13]
In the context of psychedelic journeys, what is chaos music? [32:22]
What’s the difference between a facilitator and a guide? [38:22]
When did Françoise become interested in learning about the craft and the toolkits associated with these medicines? [45:05]
Who was Ralph Metzner? [47:58]
How was Françoise introduced to the psychedelic traditions of the Mazatec? [52:47]
After spending time in the psychedelic healing space among mostly male mentors, teachers, and colleagues, how did it make Françoise feel to be exposed to an ancient tradition so tied to a lineage that was primarily matriarchal? [56:57]
For what purposes do the indigenous people of the Oaxacan region use mushrooms, salvia, and morning glory? What effects might one experience when utilizing them as intended, and what problems are they traditionally used to solve? [1:01:17]
Can these substances be used to treat maladies in people who live outside the framework of these traditions — for instance, a Westerner from an industrialized city whose problems might seem alien to an Oaxacan curandera? [1:18:54]
What does a retreat in Jamaica for bereaved parents look like, and what goes into its preparation? [1:26:55]
During these retreats, what therapeutic purpose does the introduction of elements like art classes and walks in nature serve? [1:33:28]
What is the Council for 13 Indigenous Grandmothers? [1:38:44]
What are the potential risks of using psychedelic plants and compounds without the supervision of trained facilitators and guides? [1:41:02]
How does a well-trained guide help someone back to reality if their psychedelic experience leaves them existentially hollow and bereft of meaning? [1:44:29]
What is the Hakomi Method? [1:51:49]
What would Françoise like the Center for Consciousness Medicine to achieve? [1:53:28]
What does Françoise consider to be the criteria for a great therapist specializing in psychedelic-assisted therapy? [1:56:47]
Parting thoughts. [2:02:48]

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Q&A with Tim — Current Morning and Exercise Routines, Holotropic Breathwork, Ambition vs. Self-Compassion, Daily Practices for Joy, Ontological Shock, and More (#518)https://tim.blog/2021/06/16/qa-with-tim/https://tim.blog/2021/06/16/qa-with-tim/#commentsWed, 16 Jun 2021 18:18:39 +0000https://tim.blog/?p=56225

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Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to sit down with world-class performers of all different types to tease out the habits, routines, favorite books, and so on that you can apply and test in your own life. This time, we have a slightly different format, and I’m the guest.

As some of you know, I tested a “fan-supported model” in 2019, but I ended up returning to ads by request. That’s a long story, and you can read more about it at tim.blog/podcastexperiment. I recently sat down with the supporter group for a fun and live Q&A on YouTube.

I answered questions on my current morning and exercise routines, holotropic breathwork, ambition vs. self-compassion, diet, tools for assisting with ontological shock, what currently brings me a lot of joy, not caring what other people think, and much, much more.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

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