Chip Conley: Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal - The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes

The most important question for me is, "How do I want to spend my days?" And the answer is: I want to spend my time thinking, creating, and ideating with a small group of people to build a beautiful, creative, values-aligned business. I am not interested in 14-hour work days, back-to-back meetings that deplete my energy, can’t catch a breath to-do ... See more

On life:“All right, what are the things that are most important in  life?” They’re health, loving family and friends, and something you’re excited about. What did you do to help someone  today? We basically go through each of these things, and it’s like, all right, so health. What did you do to like, make  yourself stronger, more fit... See more

Six years ago I celebrated my 68th birthday by gifting my children 68 bits of advice I wished I had gotten when I was their age. Every birthday after that I added more bits of advice for them until I had a whole book of bits. That book was published a year ago as Excellent Advice for Living , which many people tell me they read very slowly, just on... See more

I was forever changed by Clay Christensen's book, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" and the idea that the source of deepest joy in our lives comes from intimate, loving, and enduring relationships, not from our achievements. The quality of our relationships is the single metric that matters and yet it's inconsistent with how most of us spend our ti... See more