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Jack Canfield

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“Most people avoid feedback because they're afraid of what they're going to hear. And you got to know that we call it constructive feed forward, you know, constructive feedback. But anyway, I would read that book. Go to my website, jackcamfield.com. There's all kinds of things there you might be interested in. And it's interesting, I don't normally say this, but last night for some reason, I was looking up something and I couldn't remember it. I thought it was, there's a guy named Nick Nanton. He did a documentary of my life called The Soul of Success. And I went in there to find one little thing and I don't know, call it egotistical whatever. I watched the whole damn hour on YouTube. It's free. Just go the solar success on YouTube and you'll see one of the most amazing documentaries ever made, I think. Because he's an Emmy-winning documentarian. So that'll give you some information about some of the stuff Tim and I talked about that maybe we didn't go deep enough on. And that's about it, I would say, you know.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get feedback, but also read it out loud. How does it sound to you? And then make sure you get, I always say get feedback from at least 20 people. First teenage soul book, we had an entire high school suspend classes for a day, over 1,000 kids read all the stories. So we had an Excel spreadsheet. They all graded every story to scale up one to 10. And that book went on to sell, I think, six million copies or something like that. Feedback. I love what Tim Blancher says. Feedback is the breakfast of champions, you know.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would just say, kind of self-servingly, that if you would like to know more about my work, the book that Tim talked about, it's founded as 20th anniversary edition, the success principles, how to get from where you are to where you want to be. It's really the basis of everything I do. If you haven't read a chicken soup book, start with the first one. It's really brilliant. One thing I did, Tim, I haven't done it for all my books, but I did with that book. I literally, after we'd probably edited every story five or six times went out to Colorado to a ski resort in the summer, took three days, read every story out loud. Because what I know is when most people read, they're sub-vocalizing in their brain. They're not speed reading. And if it didn't sound as one of my actors says, coming trippingly off the tongue, I would rewrite it. And that book went on to sell 105 million copies. So basically, I think that was a good thing to do. So I always tell people, like you said,”
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“It's indefensible. I know. I know. I know. But I had to go through and clean it out, you know, because it got to a point where I couldn't even put anything in the closet. So the rule is if I haven't worn it in the last 60 days and it's not a tuxedo or something like that, it's gone. I love all the decluttering books that are out there and all that kind of stuff. One person said, go through your house, take everything you have and use in the last 30 days, put it in a box, label the box, what's in it. And if another 120 days go by and you haven't used it, just throw it out because you're never going to use it again.”
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“I'm going to send you. I have a sheet of like 21 things you need to clean up. I used to work for a company called Insight Training Seminars. And if you were a trainer, you had to clean all that up because you had to be living, you were complete. You couldn't teach it if you weren't living it. Think about it. Financial records, your checkbook ballot, stuff in your car, you know, clothes that don't fit anymore. I mean, people go, you can go down a list of all that stuff. I literally had to go through my clothes at one point. I'm a shirt whore. I love shorts, you know.”
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“One of the things I learned from him, he doesn't have a desk. He's got three or four offices with conference tables, and he'll go into one and say, bring over that stuff, and he'll work with one of his people. They do all the things they need to do. They walk out with all the papers. He's done, doesn't have that polyp shit that I deal with than you deal with. But the reality is that everything is incomplete. You're walking through the hall of your house, you see a little crack in the wall. And you go, oh, it needs to get fixed. Pretty soon, you won't see that crack. because you have to block it out of your awareness to pay attention to other things. So now things are not getting handled that need to get handled. And also, if you do keep paying attention to it, that's time you could have spent writing your book or thinking about your project or loving your mother or giving good feedback to your girlfriend or whatever. So the reality is it's really important to clean that up. And there's financial messes, there's garage messes, there's the attic, the tool drawer.”
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“To so we go and hope we evade them, you know, because it's incomplete. So all that energy is taken up because it's not complete all the things you've never said, the upsets, the thank yous, the acknowledgements, the wanting acknowledgements and not having got them. They're taking up space in your head. So everything you can close up, it's almost like you're taking a piece of paper off the desk and pretty soon you have a clean desk. You know Dan Solomon's work, the strategic coach? Yeah.”
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“You started, you didn't finish. It could be that letter you were writing, the book You're Not Finished Up, the Notes You have over here. But what I've learned to do is find a place for those things, you know, like if I have lots of filing systems, I have filing systems on my computer, I have filing systems about 10 drawers in my office that are file drawers. And so things go in those places. And if I need to remember something to do it, I have what's called a come up file. So let's say I need to do something March 28th I have a folder called March. So on the 1st of March, I go through that folder of everything I put in there and then I put it into my calendar for those days or I can put it in now, you know, called Steve on March 28th. But if for his papers related to that, things were going to talk about whatever. It goes in my March file. So it's there. It's not in my visual cue. So what happens is whether it's a relationship, we've all had that experience of walking through a grocery store and seeing someone down the aisle. We don't want to talk.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you're talking to a fellow person and he's the same rehab just so you know. I take more notes at a conference than almost anybody. And I've got literally books full of notes and taking notes when I'm listening to stuff and podcast things. I think the problem is that every time you look at all that, it's taking your attention. And so the research that I've read says we have the ability to hold about seven attention units at a time. And so what happens is that you'll notice the research also, like if a waitress, if you haven't paid the bill yet, any good waiter or waitress can tell you what you had. As soon as you pay the bill, you ask them 10 minutes later. They don't remember anymore. They don't need to. So what happens is all those attention units are being taken up by things that are incomplete. So messes in my world are incompletions. So anything that's incomplete. Now that can be that”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don Miguel Ruiz. There we go. So my wife and I decided we'll take the four agreements and we'll work on each agreement for three months. And so for three months, that was the agreement, you know, not making other people wrong, thinking positive, et cetera. Had to reinforce that, and we had little signs that told us what to focus on and so forth. So I think it's important to do that because as you know, we are so distracted today now with AI and scrolling through Instagram. And I mean, I even get caught in that occasion. I'll go looking for something on YouTube and the next thing I know I'm watching old reruns of Jay Leno. But I think that, yeah, reminders are important.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Walk through a door, reach up and touch the door jamb, and then say your affirmation. Now I have a repetitive system that's built in that tells me to do that. Think about how many doors you go in and out of every day, into the bathroom, into the kitchen, out of the kitchen, into your car, back out of, you know, whatever. And so it's that level of repetition until it becomes ground in. I don't have to repeat them. I mean, I know my phone number. I don't have to repeat it. I did when I first got it, you know, and you want to get your new ideas like that. I always say if you can build in four new behavioral shifts a year think about in 10 years, you got 40 new shifts. That's a lot. So for me, for example, when we read the, what's the book, Shaman from Mexico?”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I've always got something I'm working on, and you have to have something that keeps it in your focus. So if I'm engaging in some kind of negative self-talk, then I take and I create an opposite affirmation. I'll put that on some post-its and put it on the refrigerator door and on my bathroom mirror and stuff like that. Because, you know, we know normally you probably have other data than I do on this, but neuroscience tends to tell us that it takes about 66 days to change belief and it can take longer depending on who it is and how badly that belief is ground into you through the trauma of its creation. But generally, it requires repetition. There's a guy, I forget his name right now. He's the head of a peak performance at West Point. He's wrote a book about it. And one of the things when I read the book that he does is when the students are wanting a behavioral change, they create an affirmation and he teaches them every time you...”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what would be an eight for you? Never goes to ten because that's too big a leap for people. What would be an eight for you? Well, this would be happening. This would be happening. What could you do to help generate that result? What could you do to help make that happen in your company? Because that's really what you have to do. You can't just sit there and bitch and moan. Nothing's going to change.”
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“So basically, if you're complaining, then my response to that is, what would you prefer? What would you have to do to create that? One of my friends runs a workshop he does over in Europe. He's a European corporate consultant. And one of the questions he asks people, even when they're pissed off at the company they work for, he says, on a scale of one to 10, how would you rate your quality of life working here? And they go, three. He goes, why so high? It's not a zero, something's going on there, right? So, why so high? Which floors them to kind of break the chain of their thought? And then he goes.”
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“We have this better option that we're not willing to risk creating. So therefore we complain about it. It lets off steam. It gets people to go together. Yeah, I know. My wife's the same way. You know, whatever it is. But we don't get a better result. So, you know, I always say, imagine a situation where every woman in the world dies except my wife. Big thing comes down for outer space. Zapsiers with some energy field. My wife happens to be in a lead mine that day. She's the only one who survived. What I come to work and complain about my wife? No. Why not? It's the only one. There is no option, right? So we wouldn't complain about it.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just yeah, so we don't complain about it. So, anything you're complaining about, you have to have a reference point in your mind of something better, better job, better country, better president, better whatever. What happens then is we when we become aware of that”
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“Never seen an old person walking through the mall all bent over gravity. I hate gravity. Wasn't for gravity. I would be all bent over. Gravity sucks, you know. Never seen that. Why not? Because you can't change gravity. Everyone knows gravity.”
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“Blaming, we just discovered, we talked about it. And it's incredible what people blame. I mean, look at our president right now. He's blaming everybody for everything. You know, it's just, it's unfortunate, but he does. But it's not producing particularly great results as a result of it. In order to complain, you have to have a reference point of something better you prefer. So I can't complain about my girlfriend if I don't have an image of some woman who's better than my girlfriend. Now, the reality is Nobody ever complains about gravity.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't get breakthrough, you don't get better results. So if you look at E plus R equals O, there's only three responses you have any control over, your thoughts, your images, and your behavior. That's it. You can't manage time. You can manage your thoughts in relation to time. You can manage your visualizations in relation to time and your behavior. You think we can control things outside of us. We can only control our response to things outside of us and notice what kind of outcome that produces. And what you've done magnificently and what I've done a lot as well is look at who are the people that are succeeding, what are their responses to certain events, how do they relate to this situation, which ones produce the better results. I mean, you've been your book The Titans book is just amazing. All these people telling you what worked and such amazing, if you haven't read that, by the way, guys, please do. It's incredible. So what happens is...”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That event plus you're blaming does not produce a better outcome. So we all want a better outcome. We want to experience joy, freedom, peace, love, success, abundance, you know, whatever the outcome we want, health, longevity, whatever. And certain behaviors do not do that. So I've never found a place where blaming produced a better result. You don't feel better. You don't solve the problem in a way that really gets you anywhere because you've just blamed somebody. It's amazing how much our culture supports blaming and complaining. I used to call bars ain't at offel clubs. You know, every profession has their own bar they go to, the firemen go here, the police go there, the lawyers go there, the doctors go there, and they bitch and moan about everything that happened that day. The economy, the president, the minister of the hospital, whatever. So the reality is it lets off steam and you get agreement, but you don't get resolution.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So basically. I teach a little formula equation if you call it like a plus r equals o event plus response equals outcome so when there's an event and you blame somebody or something the government the bank the economy your mother your sister your neighbor the boss whatever you're blaming for this experience you've just had”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll start with a story a couple therapists told me once. She was working with a couple and they were arguing about whose fault it was that something had happened. And a therapist said, well, I'm glad to see you agree on something. And he said, what? Well, you obviously agree that if you could figure out whose fault it is, somehow that's going to make your life better.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“is because it deals with all those limiting beliefs. They come up. And as we say, arrhythmia, what's coming up is coming out. So don't resist it.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All this work that so many of us taught in the secret and so forth seems to be a missing piece for a lot of people, I would say. Fear, which is based on limiting beliefs, is my experience, which we imagine bad things happening in the future. It's a visualization process usually or thought process, which we can intervene on as well. But I think those are the two big things that people don't understand very well. And then I think what we're seeing today that I'm more aware is the power of community, the power of support, the power of not being alone. There are people there to hold you back in line when you go off, you know. My sister just called a couple hours ago and was having a really tough time and just spending 10 minutes with her. She was back where she needed to be. But if she didn't have anyone to call, which is increasingly true for her as she gets older and doesn't have a lot of friends who've died and so forth, I think that's really critical. And I think more and more people are becoming aware of that. So why you're seeing all these communities evolving? And I think one of the reasons that plant medicine has taken”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Tell people it's like calling up Domino's pizza to order a pizza and then having this other voice call them and say forget the order.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think several things come to mind. I don't think about that very often, but several things come to mind as you ask the question. Number one, I think most people don't understand the impact of unconscious limiting beliefs. They watch the secret, they visualize, they affirm, and then somehow it's not working. They don't know why. And so it's always like either fear or limiting beliefs or just lack of willingness to take action that basically corrupts the process. And I think for me, why I'm writing a book about this limiting belief process is I've just worked with literally thousands of people. Twice a year, I've been doing these free sessions where I'll get like 700 people sign up and I'll do this belief process with them. And I'd say 99% of the people have a major breakthrough. I had a woman got rid of arthritis in like 20 minutes. I mean, ridiculous stuff.”
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“And he was. And so he decided what he wanted to do was help people have his experience. And the second time he did Obagain said, you're supposed to open a center, but don't do it with IBAG and do with ayahuasca. So he started that center. So I've been down there five times, do four journeys every time you're there. So 20 journeys have been life-changing for me, just literally life-changing. I think that's another reason I'm so light and just, you know, it's all good.”
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“Yeah, but it totally rocked his world because what happened was he ended up going back to his grandfather and he realized his grandfather had been sexually violating him his whole youth. And he totally repressed all that. That's why he was so angry, why he was repressing. And then finally, I love this last line. He's lying there in Maganda just taps him on the head and goes, happy birthday, man. You were reborn.”
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“He was just used to being treated like a king, right? They get to this place that doesn't look anything like the brochure. And he's about to leave, and he says, Come on, lie down. He gets in about eight people lying head to head in the middle of a circle in the garage on mattresses. And they do eyeball games, which is an African.”
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“It was funny because when he got there, he tells this story. He got there and he flies down in a private jet, that whole thing and gets there and Maganda meets him at the airport. He says, get my bags, man. Maganda's this African guy. And he says, look at your own man. I don't care your bags.”
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“I'm thinking 20 years ago maybe with Lynn, yeah, something like that. And then when I learned about rhythmia and I thought, well, I want to do that. And the thing I like about rhythmia, for those who don't know, it's a center in Costa Rica. And it was founded by a guy who was, in his own words, a total asshole, he was a womanizer, a drug addict, a drinker, a guy of the fights in bars all the time. And so eventually he was going to commit suicide because he couldn't get his life together. He'd been in and out of rehab so many times and he was worth about $60 million, I think. But he was miserable. So he said he was going to commit suicide. And somebody said, don't commit suicide until you go to the rainforest and work with this guy named Uganda. So he looks him up and looks like a resort and he signs up to go there and gets down there. And the whole thing was a, I mean, the resort images were bullshit. It was an old house.”
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“Help raise consciousness about let's save the rainforest. And I went on one of those trips, and one night one of the journeys, one of the things you do is take ayahuasca in the jungle with a real shaman that's there. And I did that, and I had an amazing breakthrough experiences. And so I became interested in it.”
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“No, it doesn't go back many decades. I mean, I did not smoke pot in high school and college. It made me fall asleep. So my drug of choice on weekends was a couple beers or, you know, Bakatonic or whatever. And that's another thing I stopped drinking quite a bit ago. But the reality was I think in graduate school, this is so funny because the guy who eventually became the head of drug education for New Hampshire is a person who introduced me to mescaline and coyote and things like that but I only did a few journeys never I did LSD once I think I was never did cocaine I was afraid of all that I didn't want to get addicted and I've seen people who had so none of that for years and years and years and years and then Lynn Twist who runs the Pachamam Alliance was taking people down to the rainforest in Ecuador”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Amazing. I didn't know that. Yeah, I have to send you a copy. I can't believe I didn't do that. So I think that organic food. When I was in graduate school at UMass in Amherst probably it was 23, 4 or something like that, my best friend we played racquetball every night. He was the owner of a health food store. So I got into the organic thing, the supplement thing, the cleansing thing, all of that really, really early on, and then doing the ayahuasca, the plant medicine, anything that's not clear comes up and out, you know. So that's all good. And I'm very loving. I get massages regularly. All the things people tell you to do I'm mostly doing, you know, for longevity.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did that work for years. I've not ever been with her, but I did her work. I don't get upset about anything. It just is what it is, you know, that whole idea. It is what it is. My desire to change it can also be what it is, but it's not out of anger or out of upset or it shouldn't be that way. It's all just called, you know, whatever. So that is a big piece of it. I meditate regularly. I cleanse. I told you before we came on that I'm in the eighth day of a 10-day cleanse. So, you know, all this stuff coming out of my body detoxing. I do saunas regularly. I won't say I exercise every single day because I'd be a lie, but I exercise enough to keep things moving. I only listen to comedy channels on my XM radio. I laugh a lot. I think laughter is very healing. I love your digital detox concept, which I actually put in the 10th anniversary edition of the Success Principles.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think several things. Passionate about what I do. I follow my joy, follow my passion. So there's not a lot of resistance between what was coming through and what I want to do. I can't say I'm fearless totally, but I'm very few fears in my life anymore. Just, you know, if I want to do it, we'll do it. And so there's that inner struggle is mostly gone that uses up a lot of energy and causes disease in the body. I don't have a lot of limiting beliefs anymore. One of the books I'm writing is about the belief change process that I've co-developed with somebody that literally works. So I've cleared just tons of that stuff. I'm a big fan of Byron Cady. Do you know her work?”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“81st birthday in August. I just realized, you know, there's a lot I want to do that I'm not doing. And I'm going to just. Shove all this work stuff to the side not totally. I've got four books I'm still writing, so I'm not retired, retired. The road warrior, you know, the three weeks in Asia, the three weeks, yeah, all that. I'm not doing that anymore.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The Guinness Book World Record magazine covers awards, honorary doctorates, you know, people that made me honorary sheriff of this town. I've got more damn stuff, you know. And I realized, oh my God, part of my motivation has been to feel like I was worthy of being here. You know, I made a difference. I'm significant. Now, there's a huge philanthropic, loving service-oriented heart in my body. But I realized like how many honorary doctors you need? You know, I'm doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor, doctor Canfield, you know? It's like, I would go away for four days on a trip to give a commencement speech to get another doctorate. And I leave my wife and my kids, you know, it was crazy. And so I had that awareness and I thought, you know, I really need to slow down and take a look at all that motivation. And part of it's being 81, my 80th birthday last summer.”
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“And I felt this energy just like leave my body. I didn't know I had such the animosity toward him. And then the next thing I see is my door to my office. And the office opens. And the first three feet of my office is like a shrine, the how significant I am.”
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“I'll tell the story real quick. So the intention that we were to hold that night was forgive the unforgivable. And I thought, I've forgiven my parents. I've forgiven people who embezzled from me. I've forgiven people who stole from me. I've forgiven the guy who bullied me in school. I've forgiven both my ex-wives, their lawyers. You know, I've forgiven everybody. What's left to forgive? But I'll do it. I take the medicine and I'm lying there on my mattress. And all of a sudden, Vladimir Putin's face comes up. I thought, oh God. I got to forgive Vladimir Putin, who I think is one of the more evil guys on the planet. So I literally started to see his childhood. I saw what motivated him. He wants to be seen as majorly significant that he did something outrageously huge, like put the Soviet Union back together. How does he do that? You start bringing all these countries back that they gave away. Like Ukraine and Poland and, you know, all those places. So I finally forgave him.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a 12 year old grandson who I absolutely adore, who's the coolest damn kid. He's an old soul kind of kid and amazingly talented. I want to spend more time with him. I want to spend more time with my wife. I think I owe her that after all the time she's put up with me being on the road. And I enjoy being with her. And I want to just explore things because they're fun, not because I need to. So I want to read a book because it interests me, not because I'm getting ready to write something or I'm getting ready to, you know, whatever. And it's funny, I never thought I would retire. I told everyone for years I would never retire. And then I was doing an ayahuasca experience done in Costa Rica.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I realized there were things I want to do that I haven't done. I want to become a really good chef cook. I want to learn how to oil paint. I played a guitar mediocrely. I want to learn to play the piano. All these kind of hobby things that most people do as they go along in life kind of piled them up at the end.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it's now like, and other people are doing all the work, I'm not renting hotels and filling them and doing all that kind of crap I used to do. I used to have 12 staff. Now I have two.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nothing turns me on more than being up in front of a group, sharing ideas and stories and experiential exercises where people are interacting and watching their lights come on, their eyes get bright, their awareness has happened, their breakthroughs happen, you know, all of a sudden they're coming up and they think, oh my God, and then watching them name their children after me and write their first book and leave shitty marriages and stop letting the husbands abuse them. That just, I love it. I'm kind of sort of retiring right now. And literally, that was the hardest part of that decision. So I had to get my wife to agree that I could do X number of workshops a year.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love doing it. It's like, I don't know. I know you participated in a lot of sports and you get really good at them fast because of the way you play. But whatever your favorite sport is, you play it because you love it when you're playing it, you know. And for me, right.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then his chapter is called Going the Extra Mile. Basically, I said when the strike happened, he said, I can't let this guy flounder and not have the beans he needs. And he drove them himself 1,250 miles from Seattle to Long Beach. I said, he was willing to go more than one extra mile. He went 1,250.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To bed at seven in the morning and sleep till noon, one o'clock, then get up and do my business again and then write. So thank God my wife could put up with all that. But she did and it worked out really well. But it was not that hard. I like writing. I like wordsmithing. I'll give you an example. So I have a chapter in there about the guy who wrote Sleepless in Seattle, the movie. And the next chapter is about a guy who... And I was able to go, wow, blah, blah, blah, I was writing Sleepless in Seattle in Seattle. This guy was also sleepless. You know, I love that being able to make those kind of segues and stuff, you kn”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I had a regular job, you know, which was to run my seminars. Fortunately, most of them were on weekends and evenings, but basically I would”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Seven at night. Sometimes all of a sudden I'd hear birds singing and it would be getting gray out. I've kind of been up all night typing. I had the regular bluebird again.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There is a little bit of an identity thing. I became known as the chicken soup guy, you know, and I had to let go of that. Some people still see me that way, which is fine. But no, I think for me it was a very natural transition. It was a book. I knew how to sell books. People would say, how long did it take you to write that book? I'd say 20 years because I was collecting all that data about what works in terms of success, you know. And the actual writing took about a year and a half, I would write from.”
2025-10-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #833: Jack Canfield — Selling 600+ Million Books, Success Principles, and How He Made The 4-Hour Workweek Happen · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT