Tim Ferriss Reveals His Morning Routine ~ Chris Williamson

ritual standpoint what does a typical day look like for you morning routine full works what's a day in the life of Tim Ferriss look like

it depends on where I'm located I was for instance skiing for January and February so it looked very much like a day architected around skiing uh but I'll give you, I'll give you a few different examples. So here in Austin, it would be, now it sounds so cliched, but nonetheless, I've been doing this a long time in the four hour body in 2010. So there you have it, but I'll do cold immersion. So 40 degrees at say three to five minutes, nothing,

nothing too incredibly long. That immediate, immediately upon waking.

Yeah.

Waking

up

and then I'll feed the dog,

have some water and then cold plunge. And then I'll go directly from that to hot tub for sort of hyperdilation. I find that just helps lower back issues and things along those lines. How long? Ah, three minutes. Nothing too crazy. And this is really for state change. It's not for any complex biological cascade that I could list out. It's really for a state change. And I will back up and say that one of the principles I learned from Tony Robbins, and I don't know if the attribution is originally to Tony, but it's something that i've found very very helpful which is a progression the progression is state story strategy so if you are in a say low energy state or a negative state you're going to create a disabling story right or a critical or cynical story which will then impact in the sense that you come up with a subpar strategy. So I always start with state and then you will have a more enabling story, which could just be from releasing some norepinephrine because you're freezing your balls off. And that will enable you to have a better strategy, at least for the day.

You've got an equivalent quote. I think it's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Right.

That seems to be pretty parallel. Okay. So we're in the hot tub.

Yeah. Hot tub, get out. At that point, I might do a small amount of journaling, something very basic, right? Like five minute journals. And the exact morning routine kind of depends on the day. It's not super highly variable, but there is some variation, right? So if I feel like monkey mind is getting the best of me, probably something like journaling, whether it's morning pages or five minute journal is what I'll do. Shout out

Alex Icahn.

Yeah, it's very short or The Artist's Sway and Morning Pages, which are fantastic. And at that point, I will have already identified the night before or the evening before what's in my calendar for that day. And I will say that the daily architecture, just to make a... A 30,000 foot comment is less important to me than the weekly architecture. So we can come back to the day and I could talk about training in, say, Utah, but it's very skiing specific. Like skiing was the one thing that I was focused on. So everything revolved around skiing. half of the day, almost every day. That's it. So all the PT, all the prep, the Stuart McGill, big three exercises that you're familiar with as well. All these things. Hundreds

of hours. Right. Yeah. Beat extract and all these

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