NEW podcast episode is up! “Tim McGraw — Starting Late with a $20 Guitar, Selling 100M Records, and 30 Years of Creative Longevity” Tim McGraw (@thetimmcgraw) is a Grammy Award-winning entertainer, author, and actor who has sold more than 106 million records worldwide, with 49 number-one singles and 19 number-one albums. You can find tickets for his upcoming Pawn Shop Guitar Tour at TimMcGraw.com. Please enjoy! | Tim Ferriss

What’s your favorite book?” seems like a good question. So innocent, so simple. In practice, it’s terrible. The people I interview have read hundreds or thousands of books, so it’s a labor-intensive question for them, and they rightly worry about picking a “favorite,” which then gets quoted and put in articles, Wikipedia, etc. “Most gifted” is lower risk, an easier search query (easier to recall), and implies benefits for a broader spectrum of people, which the idiosyncratic “favorite” does not.

After 800 podcast episodes, 5 bestselling books, and investing early in Uber and Shopify, I found 17 questions that changed how I think and live. Now I'm giving them away in this free e-book below. Click below to download it for free! | Tim Ferriss