Video of the month: Feel Like the Incredible Hulk with Tim Ferriss

Since 1984, Richard Saul Wur­man has cre­ated extra­or­di­nary gath­er­ings about learn­ing and under­stand­ing. Enter­tain­ment Gath­er­ing is a rich exten­sion of these ideas — a con­fer­ence that explores the atti­tude of under­stand­ing in music, film, tele­vi­sion, radio, tech­nol­ogy, adver­tis­ing, gam­ing, inter­ac­tiv­ity and the web. This video cap­tures the pre­sen­ta­tion from Tim Fer­ris, best-selling author of The 4-Hour Work­week. In this video, Tim dis­cusses how he con­quered his fear of water and became a pro­fi­cient swim­mer; How his attempts at learn­ing Japan­ese taught him that often times the secret to suc­cess is  what you do, not how you do it; and how he became a Tango world-champion by under­stand­ing the dif­fer­ence between explicit and implicit com­mu­ni­ca­tions dur­ing learning.

Tim is an inter­est­ing char­ac­ter who pushes the bound­aries of life design, pro­vid­ing what often seems like rad­i­cal advise for get­ting the life that you want. In his famous book The 4-Hour Work­week, Tim pro­vides advise on how to change your life so you work to live, rather than live to work. As Mike Maples (Co-founder of Motive Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Found­ing Exec­u­tive of Tivoli) said, “If you want to live life on your own terms, [the 4-hour work­week] is your blueprint.”

I hope you enjoy this video; if you do, you might want to pay a visit to Tim’s blog, or buy his book at your favourite bookstore.

Dis­claimer: I have no asso­ci­a­tion with Tim Fer­ris; I sim­ply like his think­ing and pub­lished mate­r­ial. How­ever, the links to Ama­zon were gen­er­ated with my Ama­zon Asso­ciate account; if you enjoy this blog and decide to buy his book, we’d appre­ci­ate if you buy it through the links in this page.

Tagged as: Learning, Life skills, Tim Ferris, Video