I read this book in fits and starts, and I got a lot out of it. The 11 questions Ferriss asks are brilliant. They can give a huge amount of insight into a person. Of course, some interviews were better than others, but the takeaways I got were that by and large, successful people1. Meditate. This is a recurring theme, so much so that I am convinced to try the practice again.2. Focus on what they are grateful for3. Read a lot and write things down4. Have some sort of physical activity they do reg...

Tim Ferris asked 140+ people a bunch of questions (11 to be exact) and you get a variety of fascinating answers. I like the diversity of the profiles, you get some really remarkable people taking part of this book from business men to athletes, actors, doctors, writers, scientists… it is really thought-provoking to see all these point of view mixed in these 2-3 pages interviews. What comes back often : meditation, walking, being grateful, reading and taking risks. Obviously it is not supposed t...

I’ve reading “Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World” by Tim Ferriss little by little since the beginning of the year. This is another beast of a book by Ferriss. Overall, a really good book. You can’t go wrong with learning from the best of the best. Although, structure is bit different than the predecessor, “Tools of Titan,” which I read last year, this book is similar in that Ferriss have complied wealth of knowledge and wisdom, but I found it to be too redundant. Ther...

I couldn't even finish this book. When I read a title "Tribe of Mentors" with rave reviews this book has, I expect a lot more than this book offers. The questions are presented to the "mentors" in such a way that the advice they offer is very superficial. Everyone who had something to contribute to this collection has vast and varied life experiences. They have incredible talent, expertise, and advice they could have shared. Instead, they are inhibited by the constraints of Mr. Ferriss's questio...

This is a long book. Ferriss decides that the way to efficiently ask a large number of people for advice -- ones that he respects and would consider worthy of being called a mentor -- is to come up with a short set of common questions and ask them through email and hope for responses. He gets a number of responses answering some of the questions, which he shares in this volume, and a few gracious declines that he also shares. You learn a few things here. One is that Ferriss’ idea of a good mento...

Timothy Ferriss asks carefully framed questions of some of the most successful people in the world an in effort to ferret out how they came to the place that they are now.I found Tribe of Mentors fascinating in its breadth and diversity. It highlighted in my mind that there is not one path to success or fulfillment. We're all out here stumbling around, seeking different things. In some ways, I think it's extraordinary that anyone can succeed in the chaos that is life. So, how do you know what to...

Tim Ferriss did an excellent job asking the interviewees good questions. The one that I liked the most is what changed their life most in the last five years. Taking only answers to this one question, I discovered plenty of new ideas for how to improve my life.My three favorites are:* Engage in your “fear practice” for two minutes each day.* Take the Enneagram test to better understand who you are.* Start to believe that we are all mini gods.I found a total of 21 great habit ideas that improved

It's not everyday day that you get to read fortune cookie style wisdom from the likes of Sam Harris, Yuval Noah Harari, David Lynch, Neil Gaiman and many other interesting people. While a bit repetitive because of the structure, it makes for an interesting and easy read that will get you to add a ton of new books on your ever-expanding Goodreads "Want to read" list.

This book was a weird experience for me. Although I think the idea behind it is brilliant and it was very well executed and put together, my main feeling after reading it is honestly a little bit of sadness. And my main takeaway from it was surprisingly - I should read my Bible more. That seems like an unusual takeaway from a book that featured (as far as I could tell) exactly zero advice from any strong Christian person. However what struck me most from reading all of the advice in this book wa...

I wasted my time trying to read this book. It’s apparent that the author has zero time invested in trying to make it better in any meaningful way with focus. Never felt the connection with the topic at hand other than for Susan Cain’s section and the transition between mentors is terrible. It’s like the author had some fake reasoning for himself to justify his narration, and a bunch of quotes, but the results are very poor. These very well could have been individual blogposts over a period of ti...

What a unique read. This isn't your typical book of life advice from successful people. Tim Ferris has compiled a unique, multi-faceted volume of questions and answers that are vague enough to relate to all interviewees, but specific enough to always illicit interesting answers. I thought the questions he chose were fascinating in their insight—on first glance, some of them seem surface level, but when you really start to think about them, contain an incredible amount of layers. I was especially...

The last book i've finished this year was Tribe of Mentors. The first one - Tools of titans. In the meantime Tim become Timothy and i've read 58 other books. Theese two were definitly among the best this year. Tim is asking 140 people that are the best in their fields (billionaires, athletes, writers, poker players, bitcoin and blockchain experts and everyone in between) 11 the same questions. Read questions on his blog. Understand how powerfull the answers might be. Buy the book. Read the mothe...

I get excited when I hear Tim Ferriss is going to release a new book. The guy knows what to write, or at least how to present information in terms of mere words. Last year, I spent 18 days on his Tools of Titans which came out in the month of December. I haven't spent more than 15 days on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Tim's books tend to cover a vast amount of information that is not easy for a human brain to process. After putting my nose in his other b...

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought.” –MATSUO BASHŌ Changed this from 4 to 5 stars because there's just so much good stuff in here. It's easy to gloss over it because the advice is almost too accessible (I'm used to working hard to extract the golden nuggets), but after going through my notes, it really is packed with some of the best advice I've come across. I love that each chapter is only a few pages so you can flip through and choose the profi...

I am a fairly big fan of Tim's. He pushes the limits and as such I don't always like his products.I think the idea behind this book is a good one. Tim has a bunch of good questions he asks brilliant people. The problem I had with this book is one of organization (it's in a Q & A format). I didn't find most of the people or questions to be interesting enough to read(I did like the best $100 or less purchase but Tim emailed that one's answers already). I think if Tim summarized the results based o...

One of my biggest takeaways from this book was finding out how many successful people include these three things within their daily schedules: meditation, journaling or keeping lists, and walking. Part of the inspiration that Tim shares of the why/how this book came to be born was from one of his own morning journaling sessions where he wrote: “What would this look like if it were easy?” Blurbs I Collected in my Reading Journal Specifically About Journaling/Keeping Lists:• Richa Chadha - journal...

Tim Ferriss asks a set of the same 11 questions to some of the top performers in the world, and this book is a collection of answers from 131 of these people. As in Tools of Titans, my favorite part of the book was reading the book recommendations from these people. Since my 2018 reading list is set, I now have a good number of books to add to my 2019 list.It's fun reading books like this because you start to see patterns. One pattern from a number of "mentors" was the advice to focus on now. Pl...

While I doubt anyone would deny that this book contains lots valuable tips, its set-up is extremely lazy. It's a collection of quotes, email exchanges and repetitions of the same questions over and over again (some of which aren't very interesting). Unlike Tools of Titans, I didn't enjoy reading this book.I generally like Tim's podcast and books but I feel like ToM is kind of missing the point and mainly a means of making some quick money.

Absolutely fantastic book. I'm so glad I,m reading this book in my twenties

Tim Ferriss excels in these types of books where there is a synthesis of lifetime learnings encapsulated through answers to 11 questions. The responses are from successful people across all the walks of life and these people have conquered their fears and failures to become what they are. A good refresher course for the motivated lot and a transformational read for the others who can dip into these learnings strewn across the pages. Worth a breezy read.