Tim Ferriss is the author of the following best-selling books:

• The 4-Hour Workweek — Translated into more than 35 languages; #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek bestseller.
• The 4-Hour Body — #1 New York Times bestseller.
• The 4-Hour Chef — #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller; winner of a Gourmand “Best in the World” Award at the 18th Annual Paris Cookbook Awards.
• Tools of Titans — #1 New York Times bestseller.
• Tribe of Mentors — #1 New York Times Advice/How-To, #1 New York Times Business, #1 Wall Street Journal Tim is ranked #6 in the “Top 20 Angel Investor” for 2014, and Newsweek named him “the world’s best guinea pig,” which he takes as a compliment.

His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show — concentrated on deconstructing world-class performers — is often named #1 across all of iTunes (also selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running).

Tim’s blog is one of Inc. Magazine’s “19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now“, and it has been ranked #1 on the Top 150 Management and Leadership Blogs list, based on Google PageRank, Alexa traffic ranking, Bing results, PostRank, and others.

Tim’s Twitter account was selected by Mashable as one of “5 Must-Follow Twitter Accounts for Entrepreneurs,” a list including Richard Branson, Mark Cuban, Marissa Mayer, and Jack Dorsey.

Tim has appeared on more than 100 media outlets—including The New York Times, The Economist, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, TIME, Forbes, Fortune, CNN, and CBS—and was a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University from 2003-2013, where he talked about entrepreneurship as an instrument for world change and perfect lifestyle design.

He also serves on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, an educational non-profit and the first charity to make the Fast Company list of 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.

Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, and Palantir. He has also been invited to keynote at dozens of summits and events, including TED, The EG, E-Tech, SXSW, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.

Tim has combined a diverse (and pretty odd) range of experiences. Most of the below are from 1999-2009:

• Finance and Entrepreneurship advisor at Singularity University at NASA Ames, co-founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil.
• First American in history to hold a Guinness World Record in tango
• Speaker of 5 languages

National Chinese kickboxing champion

• Horseback archer (yabusame) in Nikko, Japan
• 2009 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute
• Political asylum researcher
• Wired Magazine’s “Greatest Self-Promoter of 2008”

Tim got his BA from Princeton University in 2000, where he concentrated on language acquisition and East Asian Studies. He developed his nonfiction writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John McPhee and formed his life philosophies under Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburō Ōe.