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Interview: Tim Ferriss
Photo: Olivier Ezratty (cc) .q{font-style:italic;color:#666;} .a{} .staff {color:#333} Tim Ferriss is the founder of nutritional supplement retailer BrainQUICKEN, an angel investor, and the author of several bestselling books. He is also the world record-holder for the most consecutive tango spins in one minute, and Wired Magazine's "Greatest Self-Promoter of All Time." Avi Solomon: How did you get to Seneca? Tim Ferriss: I came to Seneca by looking at military strategies. A lot of military writing is based on stoic philosophical principles, specifically Marcus and the three cited sources are generally Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, which was effectively a war campaign journal. The second is Epictetus, E-P-I-C-T-E-T-U-S, and Enchiridion, we can do a search for that, which I find difficult to read. Lastly is Seneca and, because Seneca was translated from Latin to English as opposed to from Greek to English and also because he was a very accomplished writer and a playwright, I find his readings to be more memorable and accruable....
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