At age 29, Tim Ferriss has been interviewed and featured by media worldwide, including New York Times, LA Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Muscle & Fitness, and MTV. He is a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for world change and ideal lifestyle design. Tim has been profiled in The Success Principles, the New York Times bestseller written by Jack Canfield, and is a main character in the upcoming feature-length documentary As Seen on TV, produced by Emmy Award winner Dan Partland.
As a serial lifestyle entrepreneur and professional polymath for the iPod generations, Tim has amassed an extreme roster of credentials and experience:
- Princeton University Guest Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and High-Tech Entrepreneurship
- No-Holds-Barred Cage Fighter, Vanquisher of Four World Champions
- Speaker of Six Foreign Languages: Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, and Korean
- First American in History to hold a Guinness World Record in Tango
- Trainer and Advisor to more than 30 World Record Holders in Professional and Olympic Sports
- Nutriceutical Designer and Glycemic Index Researcher
- National Chinese Kickboxing Champion
- Political Asylum Researcher and Activist
- Knight and Ordained Minister
- MTV Breakdancer in Taiwan
- Speedo Model in the Hamptons
- Actor on Hit TV Series in China and Hong Kong
Tim received his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe.
Combining humor with hard science, Tim has written widely-acclaimed articles for dozens of top publications, including MAXIM Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and is currently working on a book that tells his story and teaches his lessons, to be published in 2007 by Crown Publishing (Random House).
He is an associate at the Smithsonian Institute and an active member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), American Council on Exercise (ACE), Institute of Food Technologists, National Pharmaceutical Association, and American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists with specialization in sports performance enhancement.
From high-tech entrepreneurship to language acquisition and cutting-edge sports doping, don't miss Tim's controversial predictions, advice, and shocking guinea pig projects here!