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Bad dog. Hit yourself with a newspaper and cut it out.
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Making a concerted effort to trade your short-term gratification for a longer-term payoff. Whereas everyone else wants to get credit and be "respected," you can forget credit. You can forget it so hard that you're glad when others get it instead of you--that"
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The World Doesn't Need Your Explanation. On Saying "No":" --
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Being busy is not the same as being productive. In fact, being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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El hombre razonable se adapta al mundo; el irrazonable persiste en intentar adaptar el mundo a el. Por consiguiente, todo progreso depende del hombre irrazonable.>> GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Maximas para revolucionarios
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --J. Krishnamurti "In the end, winning is"
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Making effective decisions--and learning effectively--requires massive elimination and the removal of options.
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The easiest way to avoid being overwhelmed is to create positive constraints: put up walls that dramatically restrict whatever it is that you're trying to do.
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book Psych by Dr. Judd Biasiotto. He
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Fussell, Chris: "'Life is a series of choices--take accountability for yours."
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There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.
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You are only as young as the last time you changed your mind.'--Timothy Leary.
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If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.
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Miller, BJ: "'Don't believe everything you think."
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It's good not to follow the herd. Go the other way. If everyone's going that way, you go this other way. You're gonna stumble, but you're also gonna stumble upon an idea no one came up with. . . .
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I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.
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Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.
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MBA--$30K per year Commit to spending $2,500 per month on testing different "muses" intended to be sources of automated income. See The 4-Hour Workweek or Google "muse examples Ferriss" as a starting point."
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I think you should try to slay dragons. I don't care how big the opponent is. We read about and admire the people who did things that were basically considered to be impossible. That's what makes the world a better place to live.
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If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole." I"
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The Beginning Is "heart work," not "head work" "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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Why Superbad Worked Superbad worked because Seth and Evan wrote about exactly what they were experiencing at the time. Evan explains, "At the time, all we knew was that we really wanted to get laid, we weren't getting laid, and we weren't supercool." It pays to write what you know. Seth started doing standup when he was 13 years old. He adds: "That's something that came from standup comedy. There's a comic named Darryl Lenox who still perfo..
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What is the best or most worthwhile investment you've made? "The best thing I ever did, besides getting sober 25 years ago, was shelving my restaurant career in 2002, selling my shares in my restaurant, and working for free for a local radio station, magazine, and TV station in an effort to create my own media syllabus. I wanted to create a product with a massive platform, and try to make a difference in the world, and I couldn't do it with..
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Way of Life app.
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What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation, whatever the action might be--it is fear of unknown outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do. Define the worst case, accept it, and do it. I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a pe..
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My definition of 'love' is being willing to die for someone who you yourself want to kill. That, in my experience, is kind of the deal.
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When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.
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What's on the other side of fear?" His answer is always, "Nothing."
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Most breakthroughs in performance (and appearance) enhancement start with animals and go through the following adoption curve: Racehorses - AIDS patients (because of muscle wasting) and bodybuilders - elite athletes - rich people - the rest of us The last jump from the rich to the general public can take 10-20 years, if it happens at all. It often doesn't. I
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What Does It Feel Like? "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present." --Lao Tzu"
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Different is better when it is more effective or more fun. If
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This idea that we're either courageous or chicken shit is just not true, because most of us are afraid and brave at the exact same moment, all day long.
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Asymmetrical risks and rewards: "Every single one of them is obsessed with asymmetrical risk and reward. . . . It simply means they're looking to use the least amount of risk to get the max amount of upside, and that's what they live for. . . . [They don't believe they] have to take huge risks for huge rewards. Say, 'How do I get no risk and get huge rewards?' and because you ask a question continuously and you believe [there's an] answer, ..
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I think it's an analogy for that choice we all have in life: Are you going to fulfill your potential? Or, are you just going to give into the peer pressure of the moment and become nothing?
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I'm there to learn. I'm not there to win; I'm there to learn, because then I'll win, eventually. . . .
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If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time."
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."--Colin Powell"
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In place of the scale, I use DEXA scans, a BodyMetrix home ultrasound device, or
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If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In"
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2,000-3,000 PEOPLE, NOT GENERAL FAME This is one of the messages Eric burned into my brain last year, and it's guided many decisions since. We were sitting in a large soaking tub talking about the world (as mathematicians and human guinea pigs do in San Francisco), and he said: "General fame is overrated. You want to be famous to 2,000 to 3,000 people you handpick." I'm paraphrasing, but the gist is that you don't need or want mainstream fa..
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" --SENECA"
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First of all, if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done. Second, if this book were all stern looks and no winks, all productivity and no grab-assing, you'd remember very little. I agree with Tony Robbins (page 210) that information without emotion isn't retained.
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I can wait" - Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" - Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance."
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