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Rule #5: Whenever possible, measure your progress in body fat percentage, NOT total pounds. The scale can deceive and derail you. For instance, it's common to gain muscle while simultaneously losing fat on the SCD. That's exactly what you want, but the scale number won't move, and you will get frustrated. In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or calipers with a gym professional (I recommend the Jackso..
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These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." -Seneca"
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Do people you respect or care about leave hateful comments on the Internet?" (No.) "Do you really want to engage with people who have infinite time on their hands?" (No.)"
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Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!
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Truth is, young creative minds don't need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they've already got.
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Parenting Advice "What could possibly be more important than your kid? Please don't play the busy card. If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I cook dinner every night. Because what a wonderful, semi-distracted environment in which the kid can tell yo..
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TF: Decide beforehand--and not reactively when emotions run high--what types of findings are worth acting upon or ignoring, and what your "if/then" actions will be"
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Lifestyle design is based on massive action--output. Increased output necessitates decreased input. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn't at least two of the four.
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That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." -William of Ockham"
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Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions."
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So much of the job is more emotion and 'heart work' than it is 'head work.' The head comes in after, to look at what the heart has presented and to organize it. But the initial inspiration comes from a different place, and it's not the head, and it's not an intellectual activity.
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Our sprint coach, Barry Ross, has a most unusual zoo. In fact, he can engineer mutants at will. His best female distance runner has deadlifted 415 lbs at a body weight of 132 lbs. His youngest male lifter, 11 years old, has dead-lifted 225 lbs at a body weight of 108 lbs.
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The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.
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So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.
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In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy."
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If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.
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What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." -Henry David Thoreau"
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Although there is disagreement on the exact number of taste qualities, everyone acknowledges that the number is small. The usual list includes sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (Physiology and Behavior, 1991). So,
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What gets measured gets managed." -Peter Drucker"
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Professor Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University isolated umami as glutamic acid while studying kombu, giant Japanese sea kelp. He commercialized this finding as monosodium glutamate (MSG), but you need not eat headache powder to taste the wonder (and healthfulness, when organic) of umami. Tomatoes, parmesan, and chicken broth all have high glutamate content. There are also mimics: shiitake mushrooms have umami-like nucleotides that all..
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It's always the hard part that creates value." "You are more powerful than you think you are. Act accordingly."
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So the goal isn't to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.
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Morning routine Every morning, Justin does 20 minutes of Transcendental Meditation followed by outdoor kettlebell swings with 24 kg (53 lbs). I do exactly the same thing 2 to 3 times per week, aiming for 50 to 75 repetitions of two-handed swings per The 4-Hour Body.
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If a narrative isn't working, well then, really, why are you using it? The narrative isn't done to you; the narrative is something that you choose. Once we can dig deep and find a different narrative, then we ought to be able to change the game.
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Estar ocupado suele ser un pretexto para evitar unas pocas acciones incomodas que son las que de verdad importan.
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hope is not a strategy. luck is not a factor. fear is not an option.
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Morning pages don't need to solve your problems. They simply need to get them out of your head, where they'll otherwise bounce around all day like a bullet ricocheting inside your skull. Could bitching and moaning on paper for 5 minutes each morning change your life? As crazy as it seems, I believe the answer is yes.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?"
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Not all taste buds are located on the tongue. Some are found on the roof of the mouth and in the throat.... Taste receptors are also found in the lining of the intestine, suggesting that our concept of the sense of taste should include these chemical-sensing systems.
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I didn't survive, I prepared." Nelson Mandela's answer when Tony asked him, "Sir, how did you survive all those years in prison?"
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Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first." --Kurt Vonnegut"
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Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.
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I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that atoms [physical products] are actually very difficult.
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Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do?
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The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." --Neil Gaiman, University of the Arts commencement speech"
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You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To"
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The 4-Hour Workweek Films: The Bourne Identity, Shaun of the Dead "Flow" album: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires by Federico Aubele "Wake-up" album: One-X by Three Days Grace The 4-Hour Body Films: Casino Royale, Snatch "Flow" album: Luciano Essential Mix (2009, Ibiza) featuring DeadMau5 "Wake-up" album: Cold Day Memory by Sevendust The 4-Hour Chef Films: Babe (Yes, the pig movie. It was the first thing that popped up for free under Amazon Prime. I ..
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But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].
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My answer is: Be clear that your ladder is leaning against the right building.
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We are simultaneously gods and worms."--Abraham Maslow"
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