86Thousand400: Final Tools of Titans Blog

Robert Rodriguez (Director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and musician)

You don't need to know. Trust comes first

- Robert: "You get it in your way - thinking that you needed to know something, a trick or a process, before it would flow. If you got out the way, it would just flow. What gives you permission to let it flow? Sometimes if you take four years of schooling or you study under somebody, then you've suddenly given yourself permission to let it flow...

- You're just opening up the pipe and the creativity flows through. And as soon as your ego gets in the way, and you go, 'I don't know if I know what to do next' you've already put 'I' in front of it and you've already blocked it a little bit. 'I did it once, but I don't know if I can do it again.' It was never you. The best you can do is just get out the way so it comes through.

- "When an actor comes to Robert and he says, "I'm not sure I know how to play this part,' I say, 'That's beautiful because the other half's gonna show up when we're there.' They say knowing' half the battle. I think the most important is the other part - not knowing what's going to happen but trusting that it will be there when you put the brush up to the canvas. It's going to know where to go."

- Tim: "So the trust comes first."

- Robert: "The trust comes first"

Top 25 Episodes of the Tim Ferriss Show

1. Jamie Foxx on Workout routines, Success Habits, and Untold Hollywood stories (episode 124)

2. Tony Robbins on Morning Routines, Peak Perfomance, and Mastering Money (episode 37)

- 9. Dom D'Agostino on Fasting, Ketosis, and the End of Cancer (episode 117)

- 22. Dom D'Agostino - The Power of the Ketogenic Diet (episode 172)

Most gifted and recommended books of all guests

1. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

- 3. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harare

- 17. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

- Dom D'Agostino: Personal Power by Tony Robbins & Trippig over the truth by Travis Christofferson

- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

- Charles Poliquin: The ONE Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan & 59 Seconds: Change you life in under a minute

Favourite films and TV shows

- Dom D'Agostino: An advantaged metabolic state: Human Performance, Resilience and Health (talk by Peter Attia at IHMC)

- Rick Rubin: 20,000 Days on Earth