Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Tim Ferriss (Pt 2) on Easy Health Hacks, His Daily Routine and Dating
Wed, 04 Dec 2024
This week, Money Rehab is guest-hosted by investor and entrepreneur Tracy DiNunzio, who built and sold the luxury resale company Tradesy. Today, you’ll hear part two of Tracy’s conversation with Tim Ferriss. In this episode, Tim shares his daily routine, health hacks on a budget and reveals his latest venture: finding a wife. If you missed part one of Tracy and Tim’s conversation on biohacking, rewiring money mindsets and more, listen here. For more on Tim, click here. Are you Tim’s soulmate? Get in touch here (yes - he really did it) For Tracy’s episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, click here.
Chapter 1: What is Tim Ferriss's daily routine?
right now, traveling in New York City. So it's pretty bare bones. But what's my routine? My routine is wake up, have a little bit of tea, meditate. This seemed pretty funny. That's it. That's my morning routine. It's very bare bones. If I'm at home, there's going to be a little bit more to it. So I would probably wake up, caffeine, meditate cold plunge. Cause I do have a cold plunge.
So I do that for three to five minutes and then I might hop into, I have an endless pool machine. So it creates a current in your swimming pool so that you can swim against it. So you can do the equivalent of open water swimming. Do that for literally five to 10 minutes to get the heart pumping. And then that's it. That's the morning. And there might be cases if I'm feeling like,
Chapter 2: How does Tim manage stress in his morning routine?
like I'm caught up in the whirlwind. If I might be a little distracted or I'm like, what am I doing today? I feel like a thousand things are coming at me from a thousand directions. Then I might use a journaling tool, like the five minute journal or something like that, just to winnow everything down to two or three things that
are critical and plus having a very easy gratitude practice, et cetera, helps you to just take a little bit of pressure out of the system in the morning. It's literally five minutes and that's it. So how does that change with a partner? Not at all. If my partner can't put up with that, then we're probably not a good match, I would say.
So yeah, this is your routine in the morning when you're single, when you're traveling.
It's the same.
When you're home and when you're partnered.
It's not that much time. And I would say it's really not that much time. And I have friends who preserve their routine even with multiple kids. And guess what? They wake up an hour earlier. BFD. Big fucking deal. Put on your big girl pants and it's fine.
Especially when you have kids. It's fine.
You don't have to carve out that time. It's fine. And evening routine... is for instance i mean for me tonight like i'm going to go to this will sound familiar but i'm going to go to a banya so russian bathhouse hot cold hot cold i'm not going to give exact specifics but do not reveal your i will have had some weird encounters it's okay we're not i've had some weird encounters in bathhouses
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Chapter 3: What are Tim Ferriss's views on modern dating?
How is it going?
I think modern dating is a pretty strange thing. For me, it can be bizarre. But I'm not going to say it or complain. I think being single can be fun. I do not have that as my long-term strategy. I got out of a very long relationship two and a half years ago.
and thought that was going to go to kids ended up not working out still actually very close to my ex not tethered she's married now so it's not like i'm just holding off with some hope that we'll get back together. That's not the situation, but on very good terms, I might actually have dinner with her tonight, believe it or not.
And just to catch up, I haven't seen her in a long time, but the hope and plan is building a family. And last I checked, I guess it doesn't technically require a partner, but I would like to do it with a partner.
I feel like it's better.
Yeah. For me, I want that whole adventure. So that's the plan.
Do you know what you're looking for?
Oh yeah, shocker. And I think we should be suspicious of what we want. That's actually from Rumi in the sense that we should cross-examine what we want because it may not actually be what we need. But to the best I can tell, I think there are a few things that mesh well with me. Smart, of course. Loves reading. Athletic. I like athletic. So you can do sports together. Yeah, athletic.
Not just athletic, but outdoorsy. So if they only do CrossFit, but they never go hiking or have no interest in it.
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Chapter 4: What qualities is Tim looking for in a partner?
Yeah, like meat on the bones.
Okay.
Oh, okay, Tim.
Yeah, not like... Another headline.
Not Kim K badonkadonk necessarily, but athletic, right?
But not necessarily a no to that either.
I want somebody who enjoys moving their body and likes to be athletic, which ends up probably being closer to... to name Mila Jovovich or the actress in Fifth Element than to Kim K, right? But the point is I need to look forward to having conversations with this person because long-term relationships are basically one long conversation.
they sure are right and every you get to the point where like you start repeating your stories could you forget that you told the story to each other so for that they need to be deeply curious right and i i need to not just respect them but admire something about them like i need to admire them yeah and am i going to want to if we sit at a table and let's just say they're understated
am I going to want to brag on their behalf about something? That is a huge positive indicator. And if that's the case, if the things I just mentioned are true, which I don't think is that much, I don't think it's unreasonable to look for, like the stuff I just mentioned. if I could wave magic wand like three years from now, got a bun in the oven or one little kid, that'd be great.
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Chapter 5: How does Tim feel about prenups?
Of course. If I were to get married, I think it's irresponsible not to. That's my perspective. Yeah. Right. And because it's here's the thing. As someone who's in the public, as someone who's done well and that's also in the public, I don't want to question the motives of the person I'm with.
Have you encountered that?
Oh, sure. Like any guy who's reasonably successful has gone on dates where it's like on date three, they're like, oh, and by the way, I have a book coming out in two months and would love to get your advice. Or, oh, by the way, I have this startup. And the whole thing has been a ruse to get advice.
Do you think it's a ruse or do you think that it's like they like you and they want the benefits?
Chapter 6: What challenges does Tim face with dating in the public eye?
No. They would have told me up front. They wouldn't have waited until month two or something. Oh, for sure.
Okay.
That's like a material manipulation. Sometimes there's the both end. But the point, and most women are great. Like, I'm not saying that's all the time. But just as I think a beautiful woman wants to know that someone is with her not just for the sex appeal, because what happens when I age and this, that, and the other thing, similarly, like,
that can be a component of the attraction, but they want to be assured that's not the only thing. Similarly, it's like, I want to make sure that I'm not just a meal ticket.
Yeah.
And a lot of women on dating apps are very explicit about this. I want to be spoiled and this and this. And they're looking for a patron more than they're looking for a partner. Right. And so that's not all the time, but.
it is something that i don't want to have in the back of my mind so a way to have that peace of mind is to have a prenup which i think should just be a non-issue like it it it should be a non-issue now another reason this is actually important where i like i would love to be with a woman who has like operated in the world right if life is always hard for someone
that person's not a good fit for me. But if they have some agency and experience in the world, dealing with something like a prenup will not be as hard as if you're dealing with someone who's never done any business, never dealt with lawyers.
Oh, okay. So if life is always hard for them, meaning they perceive life as being too difficult or they perceive life as being too difficult,
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