#599: New Insights from Sam Harris, Dr. Peter Attia, Ramit Sethi, and Elizabeth Gilbert | The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

Your mind is the most rambling, chaotic, needling, insulting, insufferable person you will ever meet. Thoughts do not hold rightful claims on your life—meditation helps you welcome the good ones and ignore the bad ones - Sam Harris

How many things in this life will you experience for the last time? And how do you know? Long before you die, you will cease to have certain experiences—many that you currently take for granted.

“It’s often the things that make us successful in the first place, that turn around and cost us everything” – Remit Sethi

“It’s against this background of seeking satisfaction amidst ceaseless change, that you can see how radical an act of meditation actually is—meditation is the act of calling off the search, it is the art of doing nothing.” – Sam Harris

Pay more attention: If you think of everything as a potential last time and treat your actions as finite opportunities, you will live a more fulfilling life

It’s very hard to turn the page in your rich life: Being frugal may be necessary at some stages of your life, but cheapness is one of the most difficult habits to break—cheap people don’t really think its a problem. Don’t over attach your identity to your spending habits. Ask yourself: What is your philosophy on money costing you? Your intuition is... See more

“Meditation is a skill that opens doors that you might not otherwise know exist” – Sam Harris

Meditation helps you practice mindfulness – “you break the link between the thought and the behavioral imperative it seems to communicate”Example: practice ignoring the urge to check your email while yo u’re actively engaged with your kids