Sebastian Junger Interview (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

My podcast guest is Sebastian Junger (@sebastianjunger), the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Storm, Fire, A Death in Belmont, War, and Tribe. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film “Restrepo,” a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
In this episode, we cover rites of passage (and their importance), warfare, the art of great non-fiction writing, PTSD, evolutionary biology, and much more.
Some of the topics will no doubt offend many of you, and this is a good thing. I urge you to bite your lip, if need be, and listen to the entire episode. There are gems within, including hilarious stories, surprising statistics, and tear-jerking epiphanies.
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Lessons from War, Tribal Societies, and a Non-Fiction Life (Sebastian Junger)
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[@jeremyw4858]

Wonderful discussion! Thanks for taking the time to put it out there.

[@robertoenamoradoakaroberto5654]

10 comments? I thought there would be hundreds... I'm going to re-listen to the recent Sabastian Junger interview. Like listening to Naval and you converse, this interview can really improve the way you think! Thanks Tim💡

[@danrosenblum3161]

Junger is profound in his observations of humans in different social groups, of risk taking as a route to maturity, and of using journalistic skills in portraying what he has seen and doing the necessary research to understand it.

[@alice5515]

Tribe is one of my favourite books. So glad to have come across this interview Edit: And I did find it from really wanting to hear if he’s appeared anywhere lately and his thoughts about this year. I think a second one is very much due, Tim.

[@cholakicha]

This guy looks like a protagonist in a Frank Miller graphic novel. Shoutout to his Bulgarian ex-wife.

[@Estado_Alterado]

2:40

[@tadimaggio]

Ferriss would do well to make sure that his guests' names are spelled correctly on the title card for his show. The second letter of 'Sebastian" is "e", not "a".

[@EASYTIGER10]

I've never actually heard Sebastian Junger speak before. I know its silly, but I imagined him having a German accent...

[@markbardner8214]

great conversation . . .check out anything by gabor mate