'The 4-Hour Workweek' author has a 5-part morning routine to maximize his productivity

Andrew "Drew" Kelly

Tim Ferriss has asked over 100 highly successful people about their morning routines, and he found five habits he's adopted into his own.

Tim Ferriss started his podcast, "The Tim Ferriss Show," in 2014 as a way to have in-depth conversations with people at the top of their fields.

The author of "The 4-Hour Workweek" conducted more than 100 interviews with a wide range of highly successful people - from award-winning actors to Navy SEALs, from filmmakers to billionaire entrepreneurs - and he's collected what he's learned in his book "Tools of Titans."

One of the questions he's asked each of his interview subjects is "What does your morning routine look like?" Along the way, he's found five habits that he's incorporated into his own mornings, noting that he probably checks all five items on his list about 30% of the time, and that if he hits three of five of them, he's had a successful morning.

"And if you win the morning, you win the day," Ferriss wrote. Here's what his mornings look like.