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What advice would you give to a smart, driven college student about to enter the "real world"? What advice should they ignore? Advice: Follow your intellectual curiosity over whatever is "hot" right now. If your curiosity ever leads you to a place where society eventually wants to go, you'll get paid extremely well. Do everything you were going to do, but with less angst, less suffering, less emotion. Everything takes time. Ignore: The news..
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Note from Tim Ferriss: I asked Tim to share a fun piece of related background. Here it is. In early 2015, Elon reached out to schedule a call. He said he had read some Wait But Why posts and was wondering if I might be interested in writing about some of the industries he's involved in. I flew out to California to meet with him, tour the Tesla and SpaceX factories, and spend some time with the executives at both companies to learn the full ..
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Rave reviews of the books Sapiens, Poor Charlie's Almanack, Influence, and Man's Search for Meaning, among others
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What is the book (or books) you've given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that have greatly influenced your life? What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months (or in recent memory)? My readers love specifics like brand and model, where you found it, etc. How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a "favorite failure" of yours? If you..
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Anais Nin, which I see every day: "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
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A good general strategy is reasoning counterfactually: if someone tells you that X is true, ask yourself--(i) what would they say if X really is true, and (ii) what would they say if X is false? If the answer to (i) and (ii) is "they will say roughly what they just said now," then their words provided you with exactly zero information."
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The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis.
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The Passion Trap: How to Right an Unbalanced Relationship by relationship therapist and psychologist Dean C. Delis.
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Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application, which is available for free at gettingreal.37signals.com.
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Rework and Remote: Office Not Required.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."--Henry David Thoreau"
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers."--Seneca the Younger"
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system."--John Gall"
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While people often say there's not enough time, remember that you'll always have less attention than time. Full attention is where you do your best work, and everyone's going to be looking to rip it from you. Protect and preserve it.
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What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?
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All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." -Niccolo Machiavelli"
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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder, and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung.
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Think for yourself while being radically open-minded." Ray Dalio"
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you've crossed a psychological boundary by establishing yourself to the asker as someone who is interested in the type of request being made. Research shows we're remarkably committed to maintaining a consistent sense of external identity, even if we only established it to begin with out of politeness.
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I do not believe in work-life balance. I believe that if you view your work as a calling, it is a labor of love rather than laborious. When your work is a calling, you are not approaching the amount of hours you are working with a sense of dread or counting the minutes until the weekend. Your calling can become a life-affirming engagement that can provide its own balance and spiritual nourishment.
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The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape.
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Brain.fm app
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Always ask: What am I missing? And listen to the answer.
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He said the HP mantra was "MBWA." Translation: Managing By Wandering Around. It stands for being in touch, being human--and learning from everyone."
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Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else." -Fred Rogers" --
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu"
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." -Mae West"
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Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson"
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Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
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Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.
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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us.
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The Meaning of Culture by John Cowper Powys,
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Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast?" "I find good people good, and I find bad people good, if I am good enough."
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The Way of Life According to Lao Tzu, the Tao Te Ching as translated by Witter Bynner.
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Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby.
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Money in a business is like gas in your car. You need to pay attention so you don't end up on the side of the road. But your trip is not a tour of gas stations.
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These two books are actually parts one and two of a six-part collection called Rationality: From AI to Zombies, sourced from Yudkowsky's blog posts from the site LessWrong.com over the last decade.
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Blinkist--an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.
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Don't believe everything you think." -BJ Miller, MD"
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? I work with my mindset coach, Elliot Roe, and/or use our app Primed Mind. After ten minutes, I'm in the zone, recharged, and ready to focus on my upcoming challenges.
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One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough." --
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He has since authored a best-selling children's book, Way of the Warrior Kid, and his latest, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, which details his unique mental and physical "operating system."
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