The "BENEFITS" section suspiciously leaves out the one thing most guys mention when asked why they wanted to become famous: Improving your success in dating.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
There may be an argument that being famous is like being advertised to the widest possible group and that your matches should improve.
But the argument I'd make having seen how fame attracts people is that those who manage to get near you appear on the surface to be high quality matches but beneath the surface are low quality matches.
Also, stalkers. Do not underestimate these, and remember Shakespeare that what seems foul is fair and what seems fair is foul.
There are good reasons famous people date famous people, a kind of mutual safety.
Or maybe you're sitting on some fool-proof research you have yet to share, that proves this theory of yours?
There's a hierarchy of needs, and met needs are not that important any more. i.e. "money is only important if you don't have any" applies to most things, not just money.
Of course also, the "need for fame" is not universal. When taken to extremes, it may even be a pathological outlier. As is the need for lots of attention from large numbers of potential sexual partners. As is the need for the second billion dollars.
Based on his blog post 'revealing' that he had being depressed and suicidal, it sure doesn't sound like it.
That post describes a one-year period (possibly less), in 1999, that he overcame on his own by taking some time off from work. He then writes that this 'time off' was when he went to Japan and supposedly became a sumo wrestling champion.
A therapist? Medication? A call to a help line? Depression that was debilitating or that lasted longer than a few months? Not for Tim Ferris(TM).
When I was younger, Tim Ferris was an inspiration. Now, I take everything he says with the most enormous grain of salt imaginable.
Tim Ferris is a charlatan. And he is very good at it.