#837: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 - New Tips from Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck
Tim Ferriss departs from his usual long-form interview format to explore how a few key decisions can dramatically simplify life in the coming year. He frames the episode with the idea of finding single choices that eliminate hundreds of downstream decisions, drawing on lessons from past guests and management thinkers. Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck each share specific philosophies and concrete personal rules they've used to reduce complexity, set boundaries, and orient their lives around simplicity, focus, and deep joy.
6 Lessons I Wish I Knew in My 20's & 30's (This Will INSTANTLY Give You Direction!)
Jay Shetty, speaking directly to people in their 20s and 30s, shares six psychological and life lessons about loving the process over results, distinguishing your inner voice from external noise, and separating success from happiness. He explains how real confidence is built through self-trust and small follow-throughs, why most rejection is statistical rather than personal, and how healing often feels messy and disorienting even as your brain and nervous system genuinely change. He frames the 20s as a training ground of "firsts" and identity disruption, encouraging listeners to treat confusion and failure as emotional data and practice rather than proof of inadequacy.
The Woman Who Makes Millionaires: Only 1% of People Do This! The PPF Framework Will 10x Your Income!
Steven interviews Natalie, an entrepreneur who has co-founded two nine-figure companies, Cardone Ventures and Tenex Health, and worked directly with over 15,000 business owners to grow and scale their organizations. She explains her frameworks for goal setting, hiring, communication, time management, and sales, and contrasts the mindset and behaviors of the top 1% with those who struggle to build wealth. The conversation also explores hard work versus burnout, respect versus likability, AI-enabled opportunities, the coming women's wealth transfer, and the importance of believing you can learn any skill you need.
3 Questions to Ask Yourself to Figure Out What You Really Want
Mel Robbins guides listeners through a three-question framework called the Odyssey Plan, developed by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, to rethink their current life trajectory. She uses examples, research, and personal stories to show how visualizing your current path, imagining a forced change, and dreaming without constraints can reveal "unfinished business" and new possibilities. The episode concludes with practical advice on turning these insights into small daily experiments that gradually redesign your life.
#833: Jack Canfield - Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen
Tim Ferriss interviews Jack Canfield about his life, from a difficult childhood and early teaching career to becoming co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and author of The Success Principles. Jack explains how mentorship from W. Clement Stone shaped his views on responsibility, goal setting, and success, and details the persistence and grassroots marketing that turned Chicken Soup for the Soul into a global phenomenon. He also discusses plant medicine experiences, limiting beliefs, decluttering "messes," aging, and why he is partly retiring to focus on family and creative hobbies.
Oz Pearlman (Mentalist): This Small Mistake Makes People Dislike You! They Do This, They're Lying!
Mentalist Oze Perlman explains that he cannot literally read minds but has spent decades learning to read people through observation, suggestion, and influence. He shares how overcoming fear of rejection, making interactions about others, systematically taking notes, and improving memory have driven his success on stage and in business. The conversation covers practical techniques for persuasion, confidence, goal setting, habit formation, storytelling, and maintaining childlike wonder while navigating ambition, fame, and mortality.
How to live an asymmetric life
The host outlines five "guaranteed" ways to live a miserable life-avoiding deep friendships, remaining indecisive, neglecting goals and tracking, constantly switching projects, and trying to beat the stock market by picking individual stocks-and then explains how doing the opposite leads to a happier, more successful life. He uses philosophical ideas, psychological experiments, personal stories, and financial data to illustrate how close relationships, decisive action, clear goals, long-term focus, and simple index-fund investing compound over time. The episode concludes with a concise recap of the five positive behaviors listeners should adopt.
You're Manifesting Wrong! Follow THIS 3-Step Alignment Formula That Actually Works (This is Life Changing!)
Jay Shetty breaks down common myths about manifestation and reframes it as a process of clarity, belief, and aligned, consistent action rather than magical thinking. He walks through seven specific misconceptions-about magic, positivity, journaling, wanting, a smooth path, passivity, and material goals-using research, analogies, and personal stories. The episode emphasizes building systems, taking concrete steps, and aligning goals with deeper values and purpose.
How to Create a Successful Mindset: The Science of Passion and Perseverance
Mel Robbins interviews psychologist and author Angela Duckworth about grit-the combination of passion and perseverance for long-term goals-and how it predicts success better than talent alone. Duckworth explains the science behind growth mindset, deliberate practice, interest, purpose, and hope, and how each contributes to developing grit at any age. The conversation offers concrete strategies such as sampling interests, practicing deliberately, reframing "should" into "I want to," designing supportive environments, and building small wins to increase agency and resilience.
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Essential questions to ask your future self | Meg Jay (re-release)
Elise Hu introduces a re-released TED Membership conversation featuring clinical psychologist Meg Jay on the concept of the empathy gap between our present and future selves. In her talk, Jay explains how difficulty imagining our future selves can lead us to neglect long-term well-being, and she offers practical questions and thought exercises to build a connection with who we will be at around age 35. She then speaks with Whitney Pennington-Rogers about how these ideas apply not only to people in their 20s but at any stage of life, and how to turn a one-time reflection into an ongoing practice.
"Failure Is NOT THE END!" - Tony Robbins Full Intervention
Tony Robbins responds to a woman named Anna who asks how to deal with failures and stay positive, especially when she feels she is wasting time. He explains that highly successful people fail more often but interpret those experiences as learning rather than defeat, and that unrealistic expectations about timelines create unnecessary suffering. Robbins then teaches his RPM framework-focusing on clear outcomes, compelling reasons, and a selective massive action plan-and shares the story of producer Peter Guber to illustrate how embracing struggle and viewing failure as a speed bump leads to long-term success.