That’s a great question. Coconut oil. ... Everything. You can take a bath with it. You can put it in a smoothie. You can cook vegetables with it. You can actually put it on your skin. I think coconut oil is a cheap miracle buy.
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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.
Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 4 June 2018 source ↗
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Mark Bell
Powerlifter; founder of Slingshot and Super Training Gym
Initially I was going to say a pair of Groucho Marx glasses that I bought in Japan. I got a lot of legs out of those.
Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Probably a piece of music. I think it was probably an album by Brian Eno called Another Green World, which is one of his early ‘70s, it’s ambient music, but not the kind of really weird ambient music. There’s an adage that says the music you discover when you are 18, I think it’s 18 is the magic year, is the music that stays with you for the rest of your life. ... Well, I discovered that when I was 18. And I sing the songs of that album in my head all of the time. And I worship Brian Eno.
M. Sanjayan
Conservation scientist; chief executive of Conservation International
That’s a really hard question for me because I don’t buy a lot of stuff. I’m a total snob when it comes to the stuff I own. And the reason for that is because I travel incessantly. And when I travel, I just have one bag, and I have to take it. So, everything I own has to do like double duty. ... So, I can’t think of something really easy that comes to mind under $100.00 that I could just name. Ice Breaker Underwear.
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