How to Make a House Feel Like a Home (Safety, Beauty, Evoking Feelings, and More) | Tim Ferriss

1. Safety - 2 weeks of water - 2 power generators - 10-15 min away from downtown in the case of attacks, etc. - Have an office downtown as a backup place 2. Aesthetics - Have different types of floors and windows. - Have lots of open areas in your house - Try to raise the floor in some parts of the house to make it seem bigger and create different areas - Every piece of furniture, artwork, etc. should be chosen to give you a certain emotional state. Tim likes to have a lot of easy to take care of plants, pictures of nature, or something that reminds you of your past

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Thank you Tim. My parents gave me The Four Hour Work Week for Christmas in 2010. Transformed my life forever. So much gratitude.

You are brother from another mother😊 I am a New Zealander and also spent 12 months in Japan on a 12 month youth exchange. Love plants, art , books , good food, non drinker and have often suffered with depression but always worked and functioned. I’ve enjoyed all your books and they inspired me over the years to make changes. Have not suffered with depression for over 20years.

This is exactly why I create the art that I do of nature and horses. Horses are the ideal form of energetic biofeedback for humans and there are so many details in nature that serve us to inspire awe and solace. Thank you, Tim!

Hi Tim! I’m so thrilled you’re addressing home! Our home is a Petri dish for our life & holds an untapped potential for shifting our life on fundamental levels-think Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Home is a vital ingredient to our overall well-being-physical, mental, emotional. Why our home has been neglected by most wellness practitioners is beyond me. Our home communicates a hidden language with our subconscious mind, so what our home speaks influences the internal dialogue within our mind...our living environment triggers the thought-feeling feedback loops, which impact our mood, behavior, routines, habits, choices...ultimately impacting the experience of our life. This is a fascinating (& life changing) rabbit hole of exploration I’ve spent the last 10+ years studying & practicing. It’s a results oriented approach to home...I call it Holistic Interior Design because it takes YOU & what you WANT for your life, as central to the process. This method & philosophical approach is based in epigenetics neuroplasticity, design & the Self/soul (& the work of Aristotle, Maslow, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Bruce Lipton & Joe Dispenza). Our home not only contributes to our overall well-being, home offer an incredible opportunity for encouraging & accelerating the life we WANT to experience.

Powerful video. Alan Watts has some great lectures on how absurd it is that we live in sterile boxes on grid roads. Many people don’t sense how a space affects them.

First things first, create safety inside yourself, and relation to others. Then, the laundry...

Safety is so overlooked, I'm so glad Tim mentioned this portion.👌

A home is an instrument for making art, a gym, a library, a chef's blank slate. I'm sure he can go even more in depth into it and make it into a book (that I would undoubtedly buy). The concept of home from a digital nomad perspective. A fresh look into covering one of the most important blocks of the Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The need for security. Shelter or as some call it real estate, or even home office design, is a basic need. This type of education is so practical. It opens up a new way of thinking about our homes and the way they influence our behavior.

Location advice is so true. I live in a houseshare, but being 10 mins from the centre is so convenient, yet easy to get out to the airport and motorway when needed. More space for exercise etc. My quality of life improved so much when I could choose where I lived. Still working on the rest 😅

Hey Tim can we get a house tour??

Perfect timing as I just moved to my new apartment here in Stockholm!

‘’Without safety the home means nothing.’’

My fav home nest has sensual priorities - Visual (color & task lighting inside and out) Smell (I agree with comment below: homemade pot of chili, bake a pie) Audio (birds, wind rustling leaves outside, entertainment low enough for conversation) tactile Feel (wood floors, soft carpet under foot, comfy furniture) Taste (fridge for homemade food, ice and filtered water plus coffee) Neighborhood that you feel safe walking at night and yet your property has landscape that creates privacy & soundproofing.

Love this video! You are so right. You must have at least 2-weeks storage of water. A rain catching system wouldn't be bad either. As far as living that close to a big city. We're actually trying to move further away.

Levels. Wasn’t that Kramer’s idea?

Loved the concept of emotional cues you talked about in a previous video, didn't think furniture played a part in it :D I do like wood, it makes a room feel warm

'Yet, more reasons why I love my Brother, Tim Ferriss. 'Cant wait to hopefully meet and, man.... even, have the opportunity to interview you, Tim. For how you take in the 🌎... there are little words that'd quite do you justice! What an extraordinarily useful, generous, and empoweringly calming gift -- per usual, my dear friend (whom actually, you don't know, personally). Haha... Thank You.

I had to re-read and re-read the subject and Tim Ferris' name before clicking 😅 lol! However after watching this... still the same efficiency-addicted Tim Ferris! 👍🏻