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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 43ea15a | The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c3ffc2a | on a scale of 1-10, 1 being nothing and 10 being permanently life-changing, my so-called worst-case scenario might have a temporary impact of 3 or 4. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 684be5b | What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please, write in, tell us on social media why these are real excuses with #bullshit afterwards. Oh my God, man, that's such a great story. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6747354 | If only I had more money" is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment--now and not later." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9917c85 | I have had so many spectacular failures, but looking back, I can see how each of them led me a little closer to doing what I actually wanted to do. Years before I was ready to write a book of my own, I bungled two opportunities to co-write cookbooks with other people. These mistakes haunted me, and I was sure I'd never get to write another book. But I waited, and I persisted, and after 17 years I wrote the book I'd always dreamt of. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ab3f87c | Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2cf0382 | Tim's TED Talk, "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator," | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a7ac0f5 | It's always the hard part that creates value. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e763ed4 | If the best in the world are stretching their asses off in order to get strong, why aren't you? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bd08d07 | As I detailed in my TED Talk, I think we all have two main characters in our heads: a rational decision-maker (the adult in your head) and an instant gratification monkey (the child in your head who doesn't care about consequences and just wants to maximize the ease and pleasure of the current moment). For me, these two are in a constant battle, and the monkey usually wins. But I've found that if I turn life into a yin-yang situation--e.g.,.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 32694e0 | Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a66c7d3 | Happiness is a choice you make and a skill you develop. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f8162eb | The single book that has influenced me most is probably the last book in the world that anybody is gonna want to read: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. This book is dense, difficult, long, full of blood and guts. It wasn't written, as Thucydides himself attests at the start, to be easy or fun. But it is loaded with hardcore, timeless truths and the story it tells ought to be required reading for every citizen in a democracy. Th.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 103418f | Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 28a37ca | you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4db0aa8 | If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." --James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." --Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." --Polish proverb" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 04310ed | For a long time, I've known that the key to getting started down the path of being remarkable in anything is to simply act with the intention of being remarkable. "If I want a better-than-average career, I can't simply 'go with the flow' and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fa4c61f | Busy is a decision." Here's why: Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I don't believe in "too busy." Like I said, busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for "not important enough." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5505e1a | What would this look like if it were easy? "This" could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d54106e | 18. Notice how I take "you" out of the sentence to avoid finger-pointing, even though it's implicit. "Normally, you make priorities clear" sounds like a backhanded insult. If this is a significant other, you can skip this formality, but never use "you always do X," which is just a fight starter." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e8b2ca7 | Doing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 22ed584 | Serving the customer ("customer service") is not becoming a personal concierge and catering to their every whim and want. Customer service is providing an excellent product at an acceptable price and solving legitimate problems (lost packages, replacements, refunds, etc.) in the fastest manner possible. That's it." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3fa6ce1 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ee5a114 | This is the best thing you're ever going to learn in SEAL training.' We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you're a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minimum. . . . It's a guarantee. So here's the key piece of advice, this is all he said: 'Calm is contagious. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2a3ee04 | Advice to your 20-year-old self? "I would say, 'Write everything down because it's all very fleeting.' I would say, 'Keep a journal,' which I have but I would have been more meticulous. Then I would say, 'Don't bow to the gatekeepers at the head of, in my case, show business, but at the gate of any business or any endeavor.' Don't bow to the gatekeepers because I think, in essence, there are no gatekeepers. You are the gatekeeper. . . . "Do.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d15893f | even. By the time things were done, I was exhausted and depressed and just really, really unhappy. We all were. But it didn't have to be that way. That experience taught me to take agency in my own professional narratives, and that endings don't have to be failures, especially when you choose to end a project or shut down a business. Shortly after the restaurant closed, I started a food market as a small side project, and it ended up being .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8038de7 | The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 532209f | Botnets are supremely powerful, since they can comprise thousands, even hundreds of thousands of computers, scattered all over the Internet, connected to juicy high-speed connections and running on fast home PCs. Those PCs normally function on behalf of their owners, but when the botmaster calls them, they rise like zombies to do his bidding. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| b542e49 | If you have a strong informed opinion, don't keep it to yourself. Try to help people and make the world a better place. If you strive to do anything remotely interesting, just expect a small percentage of the population to always find a way to take it personally. F*ck 'em. There are no statues erected to critics. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f11eb33 | 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!2" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4ae0aba | sometimes it pays to model the outliers, not flatten them into averages. This isn't limited to business. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0d0c838 | As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bd31211 | An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -Niels Bohr" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2686d2c | Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ca714df | Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8e9d184 | I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, 'If only that hadn't happened life would be so good.' Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path." Janna Levin TW/IG: @jannalevin" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 03cf813 | How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? 2. How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else? 3. Look at what you're currently doing and ask yourself, "What would happen if I did the opposite of" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eac29fb | Wasn't it Bill Clinton who said that when dealing with anyone who's upset, he always asks, 'Has this person slept? Have they eaten? Is somebody else bugging them?' He goes through this simple checklist. . . . When we're handling babies and the baby is kicking and crying, we almost never once say, 'That baby's out to get me' or 'She's got evil intentions. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e1e9bb6 | To find the right things, we'll need to go to the garden. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f941a1b | Most who avoid quitting their jobs entertain the thought that their course will improve with time or increases in income. This seems valid and is a tempting hallucination when a job is boring or uninspiring instead of pure hell. Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization. Do you really think it will improve or is it wishful thinking and an excuse for inaction? If you were confident in improv.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 85c30f0 | 1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 42bfab4 | Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. --VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ae82f12 | Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --RALPH CHARELL | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e1764dd | Losers react, leaders anticipate. | Timothy Ferriss |