# Tim Ferriss - The Tim Ferriss Show 857: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 (Highlights)
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**Authors**:: [[Tim Ferriss]]
**Full Title**:: The Tim Ferriss Show 857: How to Simplify Your Life in 2026
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**URL**:: [tim.blog](https://tim.blog/2026/03/11/how-to-simplify-your-life-2-transcript/)
**Host**:: [[tim.blog]]
**Highlighted**:: [[2026-03-19]]
**Created**:: [[2026-03-21]]
## Highlights
### Maria Popova
- I decided to stop giving my time to people whose company and conversation I don’t absolutely cherish, not just like or appreciate or admire or feel kinship with, but cherish. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km295mbmgj582a0gz7dyzwaq)) ^998368086
### Morgan Housel
- I think a really good heuristic for your relationship with information is read more history and fewer forecasts. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km29qm6gd78dgecc0be5a294)) ^998368705
- And there’s a great quote that I love from an author named Kelly Hayes, and she says, “When you haven’t engaged with history, everything feels unprecedented.” ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km29wy28k5q1j6g3gyeeqee8)) ^998369094
### Cal Newport
- If you try to put in a triage rule, “Here’s how I evaluate if something is good enough for me to actually spend time doing it,” I found that whatever rule I came up with, too many things actually satisfied that rule. There were too many good enough offers coming my way that I would end up becoming busy anyways. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km2a0sgx70gka5rs7vzbsxga)) ^998369190
- To me, the right way to think about simplifying is lifestyle design. I’m going to use Tim’s word here, lifestyle design. You know what conditions of your day-to-day existence are best for you, the conditions in which you as an individual are going to thrive.
And the whole game is designing a lifestyle that matches that. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km2af061kfa347kdfnzvapeg)) ^998369648
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[[Lifestyle Design]]
### Debbie Millman
- Simplicity isn’t only about minimalism. I think it’s also about coherence. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km2h9mza7j9dyhr6m8sng6sc)) ^998384030
- What I wanted, though I didn’t fully have the language for it at the time, was not more control. I wanted more freedom. That freedom has allowed me to build a very different kind of life. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01km2hawbd5g1vazhge7m2abbn)) ^998384110