Tim Ferriss: The Hidden Nerve That Controls Trauma, Mood & Emotional Pain!

every mental health complication or diagnosis is increasing and I've worked with different scientists [music] and done a lot of experimentation on myself having grown up with multiple depressive episodes every year to see if [music] there are root causes that we can address and so I'll just throw out a few things that have been very very helpful

first there's brain stimulation when I did this I had months of no anxiety then there's something called Vegas nerve stimulation and one of the most heavily cited scientists of the last 30 years has seen a wild collection of benefits So, let's talk about that. >> Tim Ferris has become a performance hacking expert after speaking with over

800 influential voices on his podcast. [music] >> Now, he's taking the most valuable frameworks and techniques to help you optimize productivity, health, and [music] performance. Tim, the variety of things that you write about, talk about is so wide. So, what is the question that most people should ask you? >> How do you break down complicated

subjects and accelerate your ability to learn? because time is one of our most valuable non-renewable resources. And so I have a framework that you can apply to any subject matter which consists of the 80/20 principle which is picking the 20% to focus on that will give you 80% of what you want. For instance, there's

hundreds of thousands of words you could learn in Spanish. But with the most frequently used500, you can get to reasonable conversational fluency in almost any language in 8 to 12 weeks. And if you figure that out, you're ahead of 99.9% of the world. And what do you think is the question most people want