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Episode 888: How do you design luck?

Why eight is lucky in Chinese culture

Expensive phone numbers, license plates, and Olympic dates

Lucky skyscrapers and apartment prices

Four, death, and disappearing hotel floors

Casinos, feng shui, and designing for good fortune

A gaming room designed around one gambler’s birthday

Uncle Sam’s lucky-money products

Japan: Tim’s exchange-student experience

How Japanese writing works: kanji, hiragana, and katakana

Hachi, suehirogari, and the shape of growing prosperity

From Toyoda to Toyota: eight lucky strokes

The Shikoku pilgrimage, 88 temples, and Craig Mod

Sponsor: AG1

Korea: saju palja, eight characters, and the language of fate

666 and the number of the beast

Heavy metal, the evil eye, and Ronnie James Dio’s grandmother

Why six and 666 can mean good fortune in China

88, 886, and a numerological goodbye

Lucky #888 — My Tour of Designing Luck in China, Japan, and Korea

The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss is a self-experimenter and bestselling author, best known for The 4-Hour Workweek, which has been translated into 40+ languages. Newsweek calls him "the world's best human guinea pig," and The New York Times calls him "a cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist monk." In this show, he deconstructs world-class performers from eclectic areas (investing, chess, pro sports, etc.), digging deep to find the tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can use.

For episode #888, I couldn’t resist going down a rabbit hole about the number eight and what it can tell us about luck, language, money, and fate. Join me for a nerdy tour of China, Japan, and Korea, including a million-dollar license plate, disappearing hotel floors, a casino room designed around one gambler’s birthday, and the lucky number hiding in Toyota’s name. This is my excuse to dust off some of my East Asian Studies background and indulge a few wonderfully weird interests. Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by:<ul><li><a href="https://drinkag1.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AG1</a> all-in-one nutritional supplement: <a href="https://drinkag1.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://DrinkAG1.com/Tim</a></li></ul>*Timestamps:00:00 Opening theme.00:24 Episode 888: How do you design luck?01:44 Why eight is lucky in Chinese culture.04:48 Expensive phone numbers, license plates, and Olympic dates.07:04 Lucky skyscrapers and apartment prices.08:00 Four, death, and disappearing hotel floors.09:31 Casinos, feng shui, and designing for good fortune.12:12 A gaming room designed around one gambler’s birthday.13:47 Uncle Sam’s lucky-money products.14:20 Japan: Tim’s exchange-student experience.14:36 How Japanese writing works: kanji, hiragana, and katakana.16:53 Hachi, suehirogari, and the shape of growing prosperity.18:33 From Toyoda to Toyota: eight lucky strokes.19:25 The Shikoku pilgrimage, 88 temples, and Craig Mod.19:57 Sponsor: AG1.21:32 Korea: saju palja, eight characters, and the language of fate.23:43 666 and the number of the beast.24:20 Heavy metal, the evil eye, and Ronnie James Dio’s grandmother.26:21 Why six and 666 can mean good fortune in China.27:24 88, 886, and a numerological goodbye.*For show notes and past guests on <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast</a>.For deals from sponsors of <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast-sponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast-sponsors</a>Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at <a href="https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/friday</a>.For transcripts of episodes, go to <a href="https://tim.blog/transcripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/transcripts</a>.Discover Tim’s books: <a href="https://tim.blog/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/books</a>.Follow Tim:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">twitter.com/tferriss</a> Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/timferriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">instagram.com/timferriss</a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">youtube.com/timferriss</a>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">facebook.com/timferriss</a> LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/timferriss</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

For episode #888, I couldn’t resist going down a rabbit hole about the number eight and what it can tell us about luck, language, money, and fate. Join me for a nerdy tour of China, Japan, and Korea, including a million-dollar license plate, disappearing hotel floors, a casino room designed around one gambler’s birthday, and the lucky number hiding in Toyota’s name. This is my excuse to dust off some of my East Asian Studies background and indulge a few wonderfully weird interests. Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by:<ul><li><a href="https://drinkag1.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AG1</a> all-in-one nutritional supplement: <a href="https://drinkag1.com/tim" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://DrinkAG1.com/Tim</a></li></ul>*Timestamps:00:00 Episode 888: How do you design luck?01:44 Why eight is lucky in Chinese culture.04:48 Expensive phone numbers, license plates, and Olympic dates.07:04 Lucky skyscrapers and apartment prices.08:00 Four, death, and disappearing hotel floors.09:31 Casinos, feng shui, and designing for good fortune.12:12 A gaming room designed around one gambler’s birthday.13:47 Uncle Sam’s lucky-money products.14:20 Japan: Tim’s exchange-student experience.14:36 How Japanese writing works: kanji, hiragana, and katakana.16:53 Hachi, suehirogari, and the shape of growing prosperity.18:33 From Toyoda to Toyota: eight lucky strokes.19:25 The Shikoku pilgrimage, 88 temples, and Craig Mod.19:57 Sponsor: AG1.21:32 Korea: saju palja, eight characters, and the language of fate.23:43 666 and the number of the beast.24:20 Heavy metal, the evil eye, and Ronnie James Dio’s grandmother.26:21 Why six and 666 can mean good fortune in China.27:24 88, 886, and a numerological goodbye.*For show notes and past guests on <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast-description" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast</a>.For deals from sponsors of <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tim Ferriss Show</a>, please visit <a href="https://tim.blog/podcast-sponsors" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/podcast-sponsors</a>Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (5-Bullet Friday) at <a href="https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/friday</a>.For transcripts of episodes, go to <a href="https://tim.blog/transcripts" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/transcripts</a>.Discover Tim’s books: <a href="https://tim.blog/books" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tim.blog/books</a>.Follow Tim:Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/tferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">twitter.com/tferriss</a> Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/timferriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">instagram.com/timferriss</a>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">youtube.com/timferriss</a>Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">facebook.com/timferriss</a> LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/timferriss" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/timferriss</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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