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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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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.
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Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.'--Norman Vincent Peale"
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Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.
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the key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take time to stop and smell the roses, or--in this case--to count the pea pods.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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The best defense is a good offense. --DAN GABLE, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling and the most successful coach in history; personal record: 299-6-3, with 182 pins
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. --OSCAR WILDE,
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Many students come to me full of wonderful intentions hoping to change the world; they plan to spend their time helping the poor and disadvantaged. I tell them to first graduate and make a lot of money, and only then figure out how best to help those in need. Too often students can't meaningfully help the disadvantaged now, even if it makes them feel good for trying to. I have seen so many former students in their late 30s and 40s strugglin..
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Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
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How is it possible that all the people in the world need exactly 8 hours to accomplish their work? It isn't. 9-5 is arbitrary.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. --NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
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There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh, it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything," and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyway." Either way, nothing happens. --YVON CHOUINARD,7 founder of Patagonia"
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Timothy Ferriss |
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My maxim comes from Samuel Beckett, a personal hero of mine: 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. --PAULA POUNDSTONE
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Timothy Ferriss |
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The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. --THICH NHAT HANH
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Options - the ability to choose - is real power. This book is all about how to see and create those options with the least effort and cost. It just so happens, paradoxically, that you can make more money - a lot more money - by doing half of what you are doing now.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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One of the most universal causes of self-doubt and depression: trying to impress people you don't like. Stressing to impress is fine, but do it for the right people - those you want to emulate.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Don't confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple--many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. --MALCOLM X, Malcolm X Speaks
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Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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What gets measured gets managed. --PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author
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Timothy Ferriss |
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think of problems as gold mines. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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I've realized that instead of following the trends, you want to identify the trends but not follow them. It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.
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Write about a time when you realized you were mistaken. > Write about a lesson you learned the hard way. > Write about a time you were inappropriately dressed for the occasion. > Write about something you lost that you'll never get back. > Write about a time when you knew you'd done the right thing. > Write about something you don't remember. > Write about your darkest teacher. > Write about a memory of a physical injury. > Write about when..
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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise? If you put ten people in a room and they have to choose an ice cream flavor, they're gonna arrive at vanilla. There is always constant pressure to conform. But originality only happens on the edges of reality. And working on that line is always dangerous because it's only a short step to disconnected insanity. So resist temptations and advice to play to the middl..
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Timothy Ferriss |
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What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice
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Timothy Ferriss |
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In the end, winning is sleeping better." --Jodie Foster"
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Our point is, if you try to approach every problem with your moral compass, first and foremost, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to exclude a lot of possible good solutions. You're going to assume you know a lot of things, when in fact you don't, and you're not going to be a good partner in reaching a solution with other people who don't happen to see the world the way you do.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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As Tony Robbins would say, "The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life."
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The first is the result of a decision to act--to do something. This type of mistake is made with incomplete information, as it's impossible to have all the facts beforehand. This is to be encouraged. Fortune favors the bold. The second is the result of a decision of sloth--to not do something--wherein we refuse to change a bad situation out of fear despite having all the facts. This is how learning experiences become terminal punishments, b..
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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No one owes you anything.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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there has never been a better time for testing the uncommon.
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Timothy Ferriss |
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In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my hea..
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike. --OSCAR WILDE
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Timothy Ferriss |
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everything changes. Snow becomes water. It's beautiful because it changes. Things are fleeting. It felt so beautiful to be part of this weird world in that moment. I felt part of the world again, rather than removed from it. It
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Timothy Ferriss |
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All those artists and writers who bemoan how hard the work is, and oh, how tedious the creative process, and oh, what a tortured genius they are. Don't buy into it. . . . As if difficulty and struggle and torture somehow confer seriousness upon your chosen work. Doing great work simply because you love it, sounds, in our culture, somehow flimsy, and that's a failing of our culture, not of the choice of work that artists make." This"
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Timothy Ferriss |
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Most good chefs believe there is no such thing as too much garlic.
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