- [Brian] Tell me about you.
You have daily habits? I know you travel all the time,
but you have something you do every single day
to keep your brain right, to keep yourself grounded.
Do you meditate, training, diet.
What is it? A positive way of thinking?
- [Tim] I mean, I'm on a mission every day.
I wake up, I bounce out of bed again,
it's not about how much money I can make.
It's how can I best utilise my day with this amazing
opportunity that we have with technology,
whether it's teaching, or charity, or if I'm in a city,
I'm trying out , the best restaurants.
I'm trying to see what I can do in the city.
I'm here in London with you.
This is fantastic.
I'm meeting up with a whole bunch of more people in London
in the next few days.
I'm not going to come back to London for a while
because it's too damn cold here even in the summer.
I'm trying to just keep up with this kind of crazy life
that I've created for myself.
- [Brian] You love it?
- [Tim] I absolutely love it.
- [Brian] If I had to stick you on a mountain somewhere
in the middle of the Himalayas,
could you handle it for a month on your own?
- [Tim] Is there service?
- [Brian] No.
- [Tim] Whoa, there's no service?
- [Brian] Yes.
- [Tim] It's one of those monasteries where you can't talk,
you can't look at people?
- [Brian] Yes. What if you had no information streaming?
- [Tim] I mean I could do it.
I would just take like mental notes of a book
that I want to write.
I mean, I would be preparing for something else.
Maybe I would enjoy it for a little bit.
I would go hiking and enjoy nature.
I would try to make the best of it.
- [Brian] But you like being tapped into the info.
- [Tim] Yes.
- [Brian] Whether it's a stop price
or social media, or a charity project.
- [Tim] Listen, machines are probably going to
kill us in a few decades.
We need to make life the best possible
whether we kill our planet, or the machines kill us,
we're probably going to die in a few decades.
We need to maximise our lives like right now
before it all explodes.
- [Brian] Are machines going to kill us?
- [Tim] Possibly.
- [ Brian] Okay.
- [Tim] Probably Netflix.
It's probably something that we all use
and we're tapped in.
Netflix is going to come out with more and more stuff
and it'd be like before it was DVDs delivered to your door,
and now it's streaming and then eventually it'll be tapped
into your brain and then it'll have everybody.
Amazon, Netflix. Tesla, one of these companies
not Ilan Musk, he's anti AI so he's good.
- [Brian] Yes, maybe Netflix is killing us right now because
it's trying everyone's brain into muck.
- [Tim] I mean, anything could happen.
We just have to maximise it and we need to get educated.
I think education is the potential cure for our planet
to try to fend off the machines in the future.
We have a lot of bad tendencies and a lot of dangerous
things on the horizon and a lot of uneducated people.
Not even penny stock promoters versus
financially naive people .
Most people are not prepared for penny stock promoters.
If a penny stock promoter comes to you with an email
or a phone call, you don't know that much about the stock
market. You don't know much about anything
so you just believe they're marketing.
This the same thing with education.
The world is changing faster,
and we're unprepared with education.
The cool thing is, we have this tool
that we've somehow created or stumbled upon,
where we can get mass education all at once
and that's what it's kind of like a race.
Are we going to destroy ourselves,
are were going to get educated?
Are you going to live a good life
or are you going to just live a crappy life?
The choice is ours.
We just need to get in the right mood,
get in tune with what's going on
and take advantage of it.
Most people aren't doing it.
People might watch your shows for a little bit
and they're like, wow, this is really cool
but then by like, minute 15, they're like, oh,
New Game of Thrones is on
so I need to like live the fantasy.
Look at the top rated movies
and TV shows all fantasy, right?
Marvel, all the superheroes.
It's another world,
Game of Thrones is another world.
What's wrong with our world?
What if we change our addiction to learning about
what's actually happening in our world?
I believe it can happen because frankly
like education has propelled my life, my family's life,
my top students lives is because I'm focused on
what can we achieve in this lifetime?
Life is only getting longer.
Do you believe in the singularity?
- [Brian] I know of it.
I've had Jason Silva in here a few times
and I know about it.
I mean, I guess it's going to happen at some point.
- [Tim] 2045 2047,
I don't think you can predict the exact thing,
but I do think that modern medicine
and technology is increasing faster than most of us realise.
We're going to have more time.
I wouldn't be surprised if the average age is 100 or 150
in a few years like cancer probably will be cured.
- [Brian] Yes, just wonder if we can
walk around at that point.
Look, I think YouTube is a fascinating piece technology.
I've always said we don't really understand what it is,
but it is the most exciting,
educational platform we've ever seen.
It can be used to learn exponentially as you said
if we just decide to embrace it
and not watch Game of Thrones.
- [Tim] I love Game of Thrones.
- [Brian] I do too. Yes.
But I mean like, that's why we love long form content
because I feel like you can get a nuanced mass.
I had Jordan Peterson in here, who said, Brian,
we're realising with long form content that people aren't as
stupid as we thought they were .
- [Tim] Yes.
- [Brian] People of all walks of life-
- [Tim] You just need to give them a chance.
- [Brian] Yes, they want to understand complicated things
and have nuanced discussions about philosophy,
about life, about everything.
We got to give them a chance and give them a platform.
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