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espresso in the morning--always over ice, always with a little bit of milk and
some stevia. I do like my caffeine in the morning; caffeine, shower, exercise.
I'm not much into like running or that kind of stuff, but I used to do a lot of rock
climbing, particularly bouldering. So low altitude, high impact, and so part of
the training for bouldering has persisted even when I have moved to New York.
So I do have one of those pull-up bars in my house and I do a bunch of pull-ups
every morning, a bunch of pushups, kind of with my own body weight, get that
out of the way, you know. I'm really into healthy eating if I can, so there's the
brown rice, there's the sort of lean organic protein, the legumes, the lentils, the
beans, and then I get that out of the way.
And then usually when that's done then it's like what am I going to do today to
get flow, you know. I've taken care of biology, now let's take care of my mind
needs.
Jason Silva: Meetings or whatever, I try to probably do them all like one or two in the
afternoons. It's the time of day, I'm at my, I'm sort of ready to focus energy. If I
shoot "Brain Games," then I have to you know sort of work around that longer
shoot schedule which can be sometimes difficult and intense. If I'm doing
"Shots of Awe," then the morning is like that and then the afternoon will be like
we'll do you know like a three hour shoot or do like 10 or 12 episodes
sometimes, find some gems in there. And then, if none of those things are
happening, it's the same morning followed by an afternoon film followed by
usually dinner with friends.
Tim Ferriss: Got it. And what time are you waking up and going to bed?
Jason Silva: If I am not shooting early morning stuff for Nat Geo, then I usually like to sleep
at least until 8:30, 9:00 sometimes 9:30. I kind of . . . I don't like to just wake up
at 6:00 a.m. because, for whatever reason, I don't get to sleep usually until 11:00
or 12:00 or even like 1:00. And I need my seven hours at least of sleep. So it
makes that if I have to get up really early, it's annoying because it means I have
to fall asleep early so I can get enough sleep, and that's going to be difficult
because I usually like to watch films in bed at night before I go to sleep. So
that's kind of how it works.
Tim Ferriss: So this is really fascinating to me because I . . . most of the writers I know are
most productive when other people are asleep so that either means they stay up
really late and write which is usually my want and my curse or they wake up
really early, five or six. But I've also met a hand full of people who get their
most productive work done in the middle of the afternoon when I consider
myself pretty worthless so it sounds like that's your sweet spot is sort of the
early to mid-afternoon period of time?