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Don't Be a Donkey TIM: "What advice would you give to your 30-year-old self?" DEREK: "Don't be a donkey." TIM: "And what does that mean?" DEREK: "Well, I meet a lot of 30-year-olds who are trying to pursue many different directions at once, but not making progress in any, right? They get frustrated that the world wants them to pick one thing, because they want to do them all: 'Why do I have to choose? I don't know what to choose!' But the p..
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The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. 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 make this crystal-clear, I've deliberately included two sections in this book (pages 197 and 616) that will make you ..
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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where ..." said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. --LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland The"
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If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as "the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome," inaction is the greatest risk of all."
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Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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You can't blame your boss for not giving you the support you need. Plenty of people will say, 'It's my boss's fault.' No, it's actually your fault because you haven't educated him, you haven't influenced him, you haven't explained to him in a manner he understands why you need this support that you need. That's extreme ownership. Own it all." A Good Reason to Be an Early Riser "I'm up and getting after it by 4: 45. I like to have that psych..
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Who do you think of when you hear the word "successful"? "The first people who come to mind are the real heroes of Task Unit Bruiser: Marc Lee, first SEAL killed in Iraq. Mike Monsoor, second SEAL killed in Iraq, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor after he jumped on a grenade to save three of our other teammates. And finally, Ryan Job, one of my guys [who was] gravely wounded in Iraq, blinded in both eyes, but who made it back to Ameri..
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Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":"
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. It is much like goal-setting but differs in several fundamental respects: 1. The goals shift from ambiguous wants to defined steps. 2. The goals have to be unrealistic to be effective. 3. It focuses on activities that will fill the vacuum created when work is removed. Living like a millionaire requires doing interesting things and not just owning enviab..
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know that the only reason you're here on this planet is to follow your star and do what the Muse
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The disease of our times is that we live on the surface.
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Follow Your Passion" Is Terrible Advice "I think it misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the biggest predictor of job satisfaction is mentally engaging work. It's the nature of the job itself. It's not got that much to do with you. . . . It's whether the job provides a lot of variety, gives you good feedback, allows you to exercise autonomy, contributes to the wider world--Is it actually meaningfu..
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Magnesium and calcium are easiest to consume in pill form, and 500 milligrams of magnesium taken prior to bed will also improve sleep.
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. --RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. --HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics8 and the A.M. Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science"
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness,
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The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past. --BILL GATES, cofounder of Microsoft, richest man in the world
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The student who elects to risk it all--which is nothing--to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.
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A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? --DON MARQUIS I
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If you're looking for an abdominal exercise well-suited to power development without bulk, look no further than the Janda sit-up.
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things.
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Give your good bacteria an upgrade and get your microbiome in shape. Faster fat-loss and better mental health are just two of the benefits.
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Several families interviewed for this book recommended the oldest persuasive tool known to man: bribery. Each child is given some amounts of virtual cash, 25-30 cents, for each hour of good behaviour. The same amount is subtracted from their accounts for breaking the rules. All purchases for fun - whether souvenirs, ice cream, or otherwise - come out of their own individual accounts. No balance, no goodies. This often requires more self-con..
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My first job. Ah, the memories. I'm hired for minimum wage as the cleaner at an ice cream parlor and quickly realize that the big boss's methods duplicate effort. I do it my way, finish in one hour instead of eight, and spend the rest of the time reading kung-fu magazines and practicing karate kicks outside. I am fired in a record three days, left with the parting comment, "Maybe someday you'll understand the value of hard work." It seems I..
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What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.
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We should remember the warning of the wise Grail knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "You must choose, but choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you." Choose the highest-yield material and you can be an idiot and enjoy stunning success. Choose poorly and, as the Grail knight implied, you're screwed no matter what. You'll chase your own tail for years."
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As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz."
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May all of your creations have just the right flavor,
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SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Runnin..
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint-Exup
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Specifically, let's say you were interviewing Chris, you'd say, 'Everyone says Chris is great, but . . .' and then you'd sit there in silence. Do
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You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal."
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If you don't give young men a good and useful group to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. But one way or another, they're going to create a group, and they're going to find something, an adversary, where they can demonstrate their prowess and their unity.
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you never want to solve a research problem with language. You
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Thoreau writes, 'The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. There will be a wide margin for relaxation to his day. He is only earnest to secure the kernels of time, and does not exaggerate the value of the husk.' Think
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If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."--Omar N. Bradley"
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To boil water, the MED is 212degF (100degC) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive."
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If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach. During this forced break from the beach, let's assume one week, someone else who heeded his natural 15-minute MED will be able to fit in four more tanning sessions. He is four shades darker, whereas you have returned to your pale pre-beach se..
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In the context of body redesign, there are two fundamental MEDs to keep in mind: To remove stored fat - do the least necessary to trigger a fat-loss cascade of specific hormones. To add muscle in small or large quantities - do the least necessary to trigger local (specific muscles) and systemic (hormonal2) growth mechanisms.
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you don't need to understand any of the biology, just as you don't need to understand radiation to use a microwave oven.
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the most important thing was that they have an answer. A) It shows the courage to be able to address it, and B) it shows self-awareness that 'I might be top peer-rated and have this great career, but there's somebody out there, and here's what they'd probably say. . . .' They'd say I was self-serving at one time, or I appear too good on paper, or I'm lazy on these types of physical training, or whatever the case may be. Show me that, if you..
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you should have a running list of three people that you're always watching: someone senior to you that you want to emulate, a peer who you think is better at the job than you are and who you respect, and someone subordinate who's doing the job you did--one, two, or three years ago--better than you did it. If you just have those three individuals that you're constantly measuring yourself off of, and you're constantly learning from them, you'..
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