Tim Ferriss - 5-Bullet Friday — March 11, 2022

5-Bullet Friday

Hi All!

Here is your weekly dose of 5-Bullet Friday, a list of what I’m pondering and exploring. Make sure to see the P.P.S.…

Photos I’m revisiting —
Antarctica photos by Om Malik (@om), who was recently with me among the penguins. Pair these pics with my podcast recorded in Antarctica with Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt).

What I’m putting money into —
I am donating 100% of my past book royalties from Russia and Ukraine to Ukrainian causes. This includes everything from The 4-Hour Workweek (2007) to Tribe of Mentors (2017)—five books in total. Thank you to Ryan Holiday for the inspiration and genius idea. If this gains momentum, it will make a real impact. Do any other authors or creators want to join us?

Please share my related posts on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I believe this can move the needle.

Credible sources have recommended donating to the following organizations:
Flexport.org
Come Back Alive
The National Bank of Ukraine
Ukraine Defense Fund

For more resources, please see this list:
More Ways to Support Ukraine

What I’m celebrating —
“Johns Hopkins, Yale, and NYU are teaming up to tackle a key bottleneck that will arise as psychedelics come to market” by Yeji Jesse Lee (@jesse_yeji).

This has been in the works for a while, and I couldn’t be more excited. Here are a few snippets from the above piece: “As psychedelics treatments move closer to regulatory approval, there’s an issue looming in the industry: the lack of trained professionals who can handle such powerful compounds. … The goal is to have the curriculum certified by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, which would create a pathway to make the program available to medical schools as an accredited specialty all across the country. … The idea is that the program will be designed in a way so that parts of the curriculum can help train other healthcare professionals—like therapists, nurses, and physician assistants—and even be provided as material in medical schools.”

The Saisei Foundation, which I started in 2018, is thrilled to be involved. For the official release from the Yale School of Medicine, please read “Grant Supports Development of Training for Psychiatrists in Psychedelic Medicine.” Special thanks to Carey and Claudia Turnbull for quarterbacking this and to the institutions jointly developing the program: the Yale University Program for Psychedelic Science, the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research, and the NYU Langone Health Center for Psychedelic Medicine.

What I’m listening to and watching —
“Road to Nowhere” (YouTube, Spotify) by Ozzy Ozbourne (@OzzyOsbourne).
Braveheart (Amazon, YouTube, Apple TV). I came across this on DirecTV at an Airbnb while writing this edition of 5-Bullet Friday. I still remember where and when I saw Braveheart for the first time. It never gets old.

Passage I’m pondering —
“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away, you write, and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast. And if what is near you is far away, then your vastness is already among the stars and is very great; be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don’t torment them with your doubts and don’t frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn’t necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for any advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke

And, as always, please give me feedback on Twitter. Which bullet above is your favorite? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Please let me know. Just send a tweet to @tferriss and put #5BulletFriday at the end so I can find it.

Have a wonderful weekend, all.

Much love to you and yours,

Tim

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