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podcast2014-present

The Tim Ferriss Show

Disciplines:
podcasting
self-help/self-improvement

Summary

One of the most downloaded business podcasts — Tim Ferriss's long-form interviews with world-class performers aimed at deconstructing their habits, routines, and decision-making frameworks.

Core Contribution

The deconstruction format: Ferriss's explicit methodology — find the most interesting people in a domain, ask the same set of questions about their morning routines, books, failures, and decisions, extract transferable principles. Extended the 4-Hour brand from books to audio. First major business podcast to treat itself as a 'documentary' — extensive pre-interview research, multi-hour format. Helped establish the genre of 'success habit' interview shows.

Historical Influences

Charlie Rose The 4-Hour Workweek

Intellectual Lineage

Self-Help PublishingLong-Form Interview

Allied Works

Tools of Titans Tribe of Mentors The 4-Hour Workweek

Contemporaries & Peers

How I Built This Masters of Scale

Minds Influenced

Business Podcast FormatTools of Titans Genre

Intellectual Posterity

Business Podcast Genre

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