Serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, eagle scout, and all around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose), rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show. We discuss Kevin’s new diet obsession that may just save his life for many decades to come, fatherhood, minimalism, lifetime learning, ways to dial back alcohol consumption, lessons learned from Tony Robbins, most recommended books, and much more.

Enjoy!

Intro [00:00]
Who is Kevin Rose? [00:41]
A shared investment we were ridiculed for [01:55]
The FMD (fasting mimicking diet) [05:15]
How do Valter Longo’s and Peter Attia’s FMDs differ? [09:32]
How long does Dr. Attia give him to live? [12:15]
Crack is whack and meth is death, but L-theanine is… [14:08]
Does Kevin prefer Dr. Longo’s or Dr. Attia’s FMD? [15:12]
Kevin biggest changes since we did our last Random Show [17:44]
Why Kevin and wife Darya named their first-born child Zelda [18:18]
A more minimalist lifestyle for Kevin? [19:43]
Minimalism and a wise old tea master in China [23:09]
Marie Kondo and minimalism as a philosophy to be embraced by anyone [21:45]
Donation as a karmic chess move [25:54]
Controlling impulse purchasing [26:46]
N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): what is it good for? [27:25]
My current stance on supplements and how I track my baseline [29:54]
On measuring what doesn't matter [33:57]
Kevin’s idea for an app that creates social pressure to drink less [34:05]
What has helped Kevin dial back his own drinking consumption? [38:24]
My own alcohol consumption [44:38]
Trading drinking for learning [47:59]
How does exercise fit into a learning regimen? [51:50]
Why I’m not worried about falling off the fitness train for short periods of time [54:06]
We compare Tony Robbins event notes. Kevin gets the fresh coal treatment. [56:18]
A Tony Robbins' exercise that changed my life [1:03:28]
The self-help genre plus how I once disarmed an interview intended to set me up as a champion of that genre [1:12:27]
How to spot nonsense [1:15:59]
Most recommended books from Tools of Titans [1:18:42]
Parting thoughts. [1:21:00]

Show Notes: https://tim.blog/2018/08/17/random-sh...

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