New from Tim — Interviews with Josh Waitzkin and Joyce Carol Oates

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Here’s what I’ve published in the past seven days or so...

🎧 New podcast episode:
Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living (Brought to you by Pique Tea premium tea crystals (pu’er, etc.), ShipStation shipping software, and ExpressVPN virtual private network service.)

🎧 New podcast episode:
Josh Waitzkin and Tim Ferriss on The Cave Process, Advice from Future Selves, and Training for an Uncertain Future (Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing, Vuori comfortable and durable performance apparel, and Tonal smart home gym.)

Short descriptions for each are below.

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🎧 New podcast episode:
Joyce Carol Oates — A Writing Icon on Creative Process and Creative Living

Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) is the author of novels, short story collections, poetry volumes, plays, essays, and criticism, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and A Widow’s Story. Among her many honors are the National Book Award, the PEN America Award, the National Humanities Medal, the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and the 2020 Cino Del Duca World Prize for literature.

Joyce is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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🎧 New podcast episode:
Josh Waitzkin and Tim Ferriss on The Cave Process, Advice from Future Selves, and Training for an Uncertain Future

Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, is an eight-time national chess champion, a two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under nine-time world champion Marcelo Garcia.

For the past 13 years, Josh has been channeling his passion for the outer limits of the learning process toward training elite mental performers in business and finance and to revolutionizing the education system through his nonprofit foundation, The Art of Learning Project. Josh is currently in the process of taking on his fourth and fifth disciplines, paddle surfing and foiling, and is an all-in father and husband.

Please enjoy!

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