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The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into...
Tim Ferriss · 2026-09-04 · via The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

This is a special episode about overcoming mistakes and failure. What do you do when your work is rejected, when the big bet fails, or when the path ahead suddenly disappears? As you’ll hear in this episode, setbacks can often present opportunities, if you know how to look for them.

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Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and More


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Timestamps

  • 00:00 — Introduction from Tim
  • 01:23 — BJ Miller: Making an Impossible Motorcycle Dream Real
  • 05:35 — Terry Crews: Why You Have to Take the Shot
  • 16:28 — Tim McGraw: Failing on Your Own Terms
  • 27:31 — Jessica Lahey: From “Unpublishable” to Bestseller
  • 31:48 — Dax Shepard: When Failure Saves You From What You Want
  • 38:11 — Cathy Lanier: Rebuilding a Life
  • 47:33 — Janna Levin: Life Is the Obstacles
  • 54:36 — Boyd Varty: Finding the Next Track When You’re Stuck

Quotations from This Episode

“I love two wheels. I love the gyroscopic lifestyle. I love the feeling of it.”

— BJ Miller

“If I win or if I fail, it’s going to be on my terms. It’s going to be up to me. If I have the opportunity, I have to go for it.”

— Terry Crews

“If it fails, it fails on my terms this time.”

— Tim McGraw

“It’s not that I’m a great writer. It’s that I was humble enough to say, ‘Teach me how to be better. I will take it to heart and I will be able to be objective about it and I will use it and I won’t make the same mistakes again.’”

— Jessica Lahey

“What I know most is that I don’t know what’s best for me.”

— Dax Shepard

“This is not my path. This can’t be my path.”

— Cathy Lanier

“Life is not great for most people, and they have to do a hell of a lot more than not screw it up.”

— Janna Levin

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I know exactly how to get there.”

— Boyd Varty

Want to hear another episode with someone who turned getting unstuck into a life’s work? Listen to my conversation with author and life coach Martha Beck, in which we discussed the amazing and brutal results of telling zero lies for 365 days, how to do a beginner “integrity cleanse,” owning your right to say no, honest alternatives to saying no, finding joy in the body, want versus yearning, the opposite of anxiety, Internal Family Systems, lessons from lion trackers, and much more.