Tim Ferriss - Bitcoin, 2021 resolutions, favorite books, lucid dreaming, couples therapy, and more!

If you are able to observe and hone your decision-making with even very small investments... that can transfer into better decision-making in other areas. We're all investors—of time, energy, capital. And you can choose to become better at those things, or you can remain blissfully unaware. But one way or another, you are making decisions about investment every day.

As far as reading, these days, I definitely don't rush. If I'm rushing through a book, I should generally just drop the book—it's not good enough ... You should only be choosing books that you are sad to see end.

We don't have that much time on the planet ... If I look at the average age of death of males in my family going back many generations.... it's about 85. Like, it doesn't really matter what you do, as long as you don't get hit by a bus or fall off a cliff, you're probably going to die around 85.

Nature doesn't really rush, right? So, to meet it at its own cadence without listening to anything but what is around you, I find really therapeutic.

I have many books in my house now that I would willingly read a second time. I think that should be the bar for reading anything once. It has to be that good.

If you have more than two drinks, you see it so clearly in your Oura [Ring] data. It is irrefutable. It just turns your sleep into such garbage; it's unreal.

I'm thinking a lot more about energy management over the next year than time management. I feel like time management should be a downstream decision based on your energy management priorities and rules.

If I were to pick a word for 2021... it would be mischievous. I think that I've taken a lot of things and myself way too seriously in 2020, and I think I want to bring more coyote energy and kind of prankster mischievousness into 2021.

Anytime there's something that is directly linked to your finances, it takes years or decades for people to get comfortable with a new emerging technology to where they'll commit any serious capital to that technology.