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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 41f2a94 | I'm not going to worry about losing one friend if I have a hundred, but if I have two friends I'm really going to be worried. I'm not going to worry about losing my job because my one boss is going to fire me, because I have thousands of bosses at newspapers everywhere. One of the ways to not worry about stress is to eliminate it. I don't worry about my stock picks because I have a diversified portfolio. Diversification works in almost ever.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6ce50bb | And if you say you're not creative, look at how much you're missing out on just because you've told yourself that. I think creativity is one of the greatest gifts that we're born with that some people don't cultivate, that they don't realize it could be applied to literally everything in their lives. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 65a6aed | Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist." --Pablo Picasso" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 69b42bc | The Logic of the Double or Triple Threat On "career advice," Scott has written the following, which is slightly trimmed for space here. This is effectively my mantra, and you'll see why I bring it up: If you want an average, successful life, it doesn't take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths: 1) Become the best at one specific .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2847d12 | The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." --Lin Yutang" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 51c9f73 | Ben Franklin's excellent advice: "If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 89cc8c2 | If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."--Epictetus" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 28d9238 | When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." --Lao Tzu" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4f171cf | Make your peace with the fact that saying 'no' often requires trading popularity for respect." --Greg McKeown, Essentialism" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 00b4fe7 | Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. --DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f77a830 | If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." --James Cameron" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e096c6c | As a builder, as an entrepreneur, how can you create something for someone else if you don't have even enough glancing familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b5dc550 | The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4782023 | Many a false step was made by standing still. --FORTUNE COOKIE | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9a252be | The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose." This is Stan's answer to "If you could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, what would it say?" It is a quote from Robert Byrne." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8267f3d | it's almost like, sometimes, I'm not a participant in my own life. I'm an observer of that guy who's doing it. So, if I'm having a conversation with you and we're trying to discuss a point, I'm watching and saying [to myself], 'Wait, am I being too emotional right now? Wait a second, look at him. What is his reaction?' Because I'm not reading you correctly if I'm seeing you through my own emotion or ego. I can't really see what you're think.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8108643 | most cold calls didn't get to the intended person for one reason: gatekeepers. If I simply made all my calls from 8:00-8:30 A.M. and 6:00-6:30 P.M., for a total of one hour, I was able to avoid secretaries and book more than twice as many meetings | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a79ed91 | Stop wishing and start doing. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f393eb1 | His Message at a High School Commencement "You guys are programmed to succeed. The hardest thing you're ever going to do in your life is fail at something, and if you don't start failing at things, you will not live a full life. You'll be living a cautious life on a path that you know is pretty much guaranteed to more or less work. That's not getting the most out of this amazing world we live in. You have to do the hardest thing that you ha.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f84b045 | the tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you've found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation. Balancing those two things--the courage of exploring and the commitment to staying--and getting the ratio right is very hard. I think my 70-year-old self would say: 'Be careful that .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9f29f1f | The future is already here--it's just unevenly distributed."--William Gibson" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 66c42c9 | The minimum effective dose (MED) is defined simply: the smallest dose that will produce a desired outcome. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3816e74 | The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9ed6089 | Here's a statistician joke for your next hot date: Person A: What happens when Bill Gates walks into a bar of 55 people? Person B: I don't know. What? Person A: The "average" net worth jumps to more than a billion dollars!" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| aec07e2 | Busy" = Out of Control "Every time people contact me, they say, 'Look, I know you must be incredibly busy . . .' and I always think, 'No, I'm not.' Because I'm in control of my time. I'm on top of it. 'Busy,' to me, seems to imply 'out of control.' Like, 'Oh my God, I'm so busy. I don't have any time for this shit!' To me, that sounds like a person who's got no control over their life." TF: Lack of time is lack of priorities. If I'm "busy,".. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 31b7e7e | Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren't lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre. | job-security society | Timothy Ferriss | |
| 0ddca21 | we would always think: 'Okay, if we do X today, what does that result in tomorrow, a year from now, ten years from now?' The | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9002772 | Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3b945c1 | It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7af8008 | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein" | Thomas Baker | ||
| 257fb24 | BLAMING IDIOTS FOR interruptions is like blaming clowns for scaring children--they can't help it. It's their nature. Then again, I had (who am I kidding--and have), on occasion, been known to create interruptions out of thin air. If you're anything like me, that makes us both occasional idiots. Learn to recognize and fight the interruption impulse. This is infinitely easier when you have a set of rules, responses, and routines to follow. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c07cbdf | As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid." -- | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| db43eff | I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. --HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE, American editor and journalist; first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d8a9846 | There is just less competition for bigger goals. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 291b811 | Named must your fear be before banish it you can. --YODA, from Star Wars: | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 08dec9a | What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d12c00a | Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 67ac6a8 | 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 person's success in life can usually be .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a2055f2 | I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. --WOODROW WILSON | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| efea463 | Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. --HEINRICH HEINE, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 471c8e1 | love, be loved, and never stop learning-- | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 34b1347 | Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. The best way to approach a potential break is simple: Confide in them honestly but tactfully and explain your concerns. If they bite back, your conclusions have been confirmed. Drop them like any other bad habit. If they promise to change, first spend at least two weeks apart to develop other positive influences in your life and diminish psychological dependency. .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eac2bbb | It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject--medicine, for example--but if you don't have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a "credibility indicator." The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, n.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f3ccfd1 | just-in-time" information instead of "just-in-case" information." | Timothy Ferriss |