Timothy Ferriss

Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice

Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

Tribe of Mentors

Tim Ferriss, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek, shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book--a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits from 130+ of the world's top performers. From iconic entrepreneurs to elite athletes, from artists to billionaire investors, their short profiles can help you answer life's most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life. From the author: In 2017, several of my close friends died in rapid succession. It was a very hard year, as it was for many people. It was also a stark reminder that time is our scarcest, non-renewable resource. With a renewed sense of urgency, I began asking myself many questions: Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning? How could I be kinder to myself? How could I better say "no" to the trivial many to better say "yes" to the critical few? How could I best reassess my priorities and my purpose in this world? To find answers, I reached out to the most impressive world-class performers in the world, ranging from wunderkinds in their 20s to icons in their 70s and 80s. No stone was left unturned. This book contains their answers--practical and tactical advice from mentors who have found solutions. Whether you want to 10x your results, get unstuck, or reinvent yourself, someone else has traveled a similar path and taken notes. This book, Tribe of Mentors, includes many of the people I grew up viewing as idols or demi-gods. Less than 10% have been on my podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show, more than 200 million downloads), making this a brand-new playbook of playbooks. No matter your challenge or opportunity, something in these pages can help. Among other things, you will learn: More than 50 morning routines--both for the early riser and those who struggle to get out of bed. How TED curator Chris Anderson realized that the best way to get things done is to let go. The best purchases of $100 or less (you'll never have to think about the right gift again). How to overcome failure and bounce back towards success. Why Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton believes that the best art will always be the riskiest. How to meditate and be more mindful (and not just for those that find it easy). Why tennis champion Maria Sharapova believe that "losing makes you think in ways victories can't." How to truly achieve work-life balance (and why most people tell you it isn't realistic). How billionaire Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz transformed the way he engages with difficult situations to reduce suffering. Ways to thrive (and survive) the overwhelming amount of information you process every day. How to achieve clarity on your purpose and assess your priorities. And much more. This reference book, which I wrote for myself, has already changed my life. I certainly hope the same for you. I wish you luck as you forge your own path. All the best, Tim Ferriss

Nenad Nikolic

Essentialy useless collection of advice from successful people. Why I consider it useless:

1. It is eyewitness recollection of things that happened in lives of people which they recall and put in words. From number of published studies, we know that such recollections tend to be unreliable. Other flaw is that it is in human nature to embellish their experiences and forget all the bad stuff that happened.

2. There is relatively useful advice about books (I love reading them). Always happy to learn about a good book. On the other hand, I would prefer to know about which books those people read *before* they became successful. I don’t care what a bunch of CEOs read now that they have a host of different stuff to deal with.

3. There are a lot of claims in the book about stuff that just are not true. Obvious delusions of people who are indoctrinated in various form of mumbo jumbo ideologies that don’t mean anything and are a waste of time and space.

Only reason I added a second star for this book is for the effort of the author to compile such a massive list, which must be extremely hard to do.

I would especially advise younger readers to stay away from this one and try to find some scientifically backed books that contain actual evidence for the claims they make. Anectdotal ”evidence” contained in “Tribe of Mentors” is not worth the paper it’s printed on.

Julien Sobczak

If you loved "Tools of Titans", you will love even more "Tribe of Mentors".

For this new book, Tim emailed his mentors the same well-thought questions and half of them take hours or days to write sophisticated answers (about success, happiness, focus, meditation, Stoicm, sports, etc.).

You will find once again more than 100 chapters from a diverse panel of contributors (still mostly American). Unlike "Tools of Titans" where the notes were edited by Tim Ferris, the answers in this book were written by their authors. There is no organization in this book, "just" a collection of wisdoms, to read and reread.

If learning from your own experience seems a good idea, this book will make it obvious that learning from others' experiences is even more invaluable and indispensable.

Bouke van der Bijl

I really enjoyed this! It’s a great variety of different people answering a standard set of questions, which gives it a good structure. To determine whether you want to read this book, just look at the table of contents and see if any of the people interviewed interest you.

linda

I leaned through this book while procrastinating on homework (when I got to Tim Urban I started to cringe). Some pretty helpful insights, good book recommendations, ways of thinking. I feel inspired. This book is a good pick me up.

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Josh Dzarir

There's over 100 interviews of some of the most iconic athletes, investors, writers and artists in this book. It's impossible to read this and not be able to take away something of value. You'll learn about the books these icons read, their failures and the mentality with which they approach life. After reading this I've gained several new mentors, people I probably never would of come across outside of this book. This is an incedrible book and Tim did a fantastic job of collating all the responses.

Tribe of Mentors Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

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