Key takeaway’s from ‘Tribe of Mentors’ by Tim Ferriss

If you want life advice from the best in the world, Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss is the book you must read.

With 11 great questions by Tim, I captured the answers which resonated with me most. This is life advice I come back to constantly — it will help you too.

Note that these are snippets from the book, not advice that I have researched myself. All credit is with Tim Ferriss and the individuals who contributed to Tribe of Mentors.

1 What is the book (or books) you have given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life?

Sam Barondes’ book Making Sense of People has had a big impact on my thinking, and I sometimes give a copy to people in the midst of hiring someone. The most useful mental model I have found to help understand what makes people tick is the one Barondes describes in his book. The model is called the ‘Big Five’ or OCEAN: open-minded, conscientious, extroverted, agreeable, neurotic. The killer combination is high open-minded, high conscientious, low neurotic. — Graham Duncan (pg 59).

2 What purchases of $100 or less has positively impacted your life in the last six months?

A weighted blanket. I am not an expert on the science of why it works, but the ‘deep touch pressure’…