Soman Chainani
Novelist and screenwriter; author of The School for Good and Evil
This is easy. It’s called Mother Dirt. It clears your skin, and it cost $49.00. My skin was a hot mess for most of my adolescence and into my 20’s.
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Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 6 February 2018
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Nicholas McCarthy
Concert pianist; the first one-handed pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music
Actually, this is quite random, but I love it. It’s a diffuser for aromatherapy oils. My piano is in my lounge and I have this diffuser on. I put different oils in. For when I’m practicing, I would put geranium in, for instance, which I love. I just find it relaxes me, but at the same time keeps me perked up enough to be able to work.
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Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 4 June 2018
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Phil Keoghan
Television presenter; host of The Amazing Race
Probably the biggest impact for something less than $100.00 would be a mole skin diary. I’ve got them all lined up for every year. I’ve had them since 1986. So, in there, in a very tactile way, I have like lists in the back, movies, books. And then, I write in the back the name of the book and then who recommended the book.
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Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 5 June 2018
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A.J. Jacobs
Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically
That is a good question. Well, one thing I do love is my elastic shoelaces. ... So, you just replace the cloth shoelaces with these elastic… I think it’s called “Lace Lock” is the brand I use. And, yeah, shoelaces seem like such 18th century technology.
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Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 20 June 2018
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Okay, let me tell you guys. I didn’t know this until last week. There’s a thing called a boot box for your long boots. You put your long boots in them instead of them draping all over the floor of your closet, and then you put a bump on the shelf.
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Cheryl Strayed, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 22 June 2018
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Debbie Millman
Designer; host of Design Matters; founder of the SVA branding programme
Well, the purchase that has influenced me over the last six months is the Apple pencil. I do so much of my artwork by hand and now there is a device that draws and feels like a real pencil that I can use electronically. It’s changed the way I work.
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Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018
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