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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1096676 | Losing makes you think in ways victories can't. You begin asking questions instead of feeling like you have the answers. Questions open up the doors to so many possibilities. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3e72621 | Things in Excess Become Their Opposite. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite. Thus: Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.4 Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a51d658 | To quote the industrial statistician George Box: "Every model is wrong, but some are useful." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1b29d3a | Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6b7fd13 | 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." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c684304 | The US traded its manufacturing sector's health for its entertainment industry, hoping that Police Academy sequels could take the place of the rustbelt. The US bet wrong. But like a losing gambler who keeps on doubling down, the US doesn't know when to quit. It keeps meeting with its entertainment giants, asking how US foreign and domestic policy can preserve its business-model. Criminalize 70 million American file-sharers? Check. Turn the.. | entertainment information-economy jobs manufacturing | Cory Doctorow | |
| 0e63ff3 | People suck at following advice. Even the most effective people in the world are terrible at it. There are two reasons: 1. Most people have an insufficient reason for action. The pain isn't painful enough. It's a nice-to-have, not a must-have. There has been no "Harajuku Moment." 2. There are no reminders. No consistent tracking = no awareness = no behavioral change. Consistent tracking, even if you have no knowledge of fat-loss or exercise.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4b261a4 | Think of them as insurance against the weaknesses of human nature--your weaknesses, my weaknesses, our weaknesses: 1. Make it conscious. 2. Make it a game. 3. Make it competitive. 4. Make it small and temporary. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 044e91e | Seeing progress in changing numbers makes the repetitive fascinating and creates a positive feedback loop. Once again, the act of measuring is often more important than what you measure. To quote the industrial statistician George Box: "Every model is wrong, but some are useful." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dbd80ef | Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious."--Thomas Edison" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e5fa850 | Which philosophers would Alain suggest for practical living? Alain's list overlaps nearly 100% with my own: Epicurus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Michel de Montaigne, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Bertrand Russell. * Most-gifted or recommended books? The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Essays of Michel de Montaigne. * Favorite documentary The Up series: This ongoing series is filmed in the UK, and revisit.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 449f50c | Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, "spiritual windshield wipers." It's the most cost-effective therapy I've ever found. To quote her further, from page viii: "Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes." Please reread the above quote. It may be the most important aspect of trapping thought on paper (i.e., writing) you'.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7488424 | Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That's right--it's used to produce diabetes. This is bad news if you eat anything white or "enriched." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| de46659 | No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."--Albert Einstein" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 98f27f4 | Ravikant, Naval: "'Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want' (paraphrased" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3e97cc1 | there is always a single "source": the person who took the first risk on a new initiative. That source maintains a unique relationship with the gestalt of the original idea and has an intuitive knowledge of what the right next step for the initiative is, whereas others who join later to help with the execution often lack that intuitive connection to the founder's original insight. Many organizational tensions and power struggles often revol.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f806718 | Einstein said, "If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 481c6ce | The word cellulite, for example, first appeared in the April 15, 1968, issue of Vogue magazine, and this invented disease soon had a believer base worldwide: Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles.... In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a "problem" where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the w.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 78a7049 | REMEMBER: it is impossible to evaluate, or even understand, anything that you cannot measure." 80" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9bdd2fe | The key to that satisfaction is to reach the nirvana in which love of practice for its own sake (intrinsic) replaces the original goal (extrinsic) as our grail. The antithesis of mastery is the pursuit of quick fixes. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5de836f | In other words, you can spend all day undermining other people, and even if you're right, who cares? Anybody can talk about why something's bad. Try doing something good. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8ee38fc | Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world. It is often the case that you have to fire certain friends or retire from particular social circles to have the life you want. This isn't being mean; it is being practical. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3577322 | If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." -Colonel David Hackworth" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8084236 | We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ea1dc16 | Charles Munger, right-hand adviser to Warren Buffett, the richest man on the planet, is known for his unparalleled clear thinking and near-failure-proof track record. How did he refine his thinking to help build a $3 trillion business in Berkshire Hathaway? The answer is "mental models," or analytical rules-of-thumb4 pulled from disciplines outside of investing, ranging from physics to evolutionary biology. Eighty to 90 models have helped C.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0b00a1d | There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. --BILL WATTERSON, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9726348 | The immediate answer that comes to mind is 'humility.' Because you've got to be humble, and you've got to be coachable. . . . Later, when I was running training, we would fire a couple leaders from every SEAL Team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability to shoot a weapon, it wasn't because they weren't in good physical shape, it wasn't because they were unsafe. It was almost always a question.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fb3854a | I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| 3213017 | There was a time when my favorite thing in the world was putting on a cape and hanging out in hotels, pretending to be an invisible vampire whom everyone stared at. | Cory Doctorow | ||
| de278bc | YA doesn't get librarians fired! | book-selling book-writing librarians verbal-exchange writing-advice | Cory Doctorow | |
| 9463e21 | En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figee. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants egalitaristes. Mais tout a change avec l'arrivee de Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantite d'apotres de la dereglementation qui ont commence a faire leur propagande ici meme. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrement neo-liberal. | Benoît Duteurtre | ||
| ddeffe5 | So far as we know, no pollster has asked the public, "Are you getting your money's worth for the more than 40 percent of your income being spent on your behalf by government?" But" | Milton Friedman | ||
| ce0e7c5 | The majority does rule. But it is a rather special kind of majority. It consists of a coalition of special interest minorities. The way to get elected to Congress is to collect groups of, say, 2 or 3 percent of your constituents, each of which is strongly interested in one special issue that hardly concerns the rest of your constituents. Each group will be willing to vote for you if you promise to back its issue regardless of what you do ab.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| c92220c | Both the fragmentation of power and the conflicting government policies are rooted in the political realities of a democratic system that operates by enacting detailed and specific legislation. Such a system tends to give undue political power to small groups that have highly concentrated interests, to give greater weight to obvious, direct, and immediate effects of government action than to possibly more important but concealed, indirect, .. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 6140a25 | There is an excellent short book (126 pages) by Faustino Ballve, Essentials of Economics (Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Foundation for Economic Education), which briefly summarizes principles and policies. A book that does that at somewhat greater length (327 pages) is Understanding the Dollar Crisis by Percy L. Greaves (Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1973). Bettina Bien Greaves has assembled two volumes of readings on Free Market Economics .. | Henry Hazlitt | ||
| 328c3c8 | Five simple truths embody most of what we know about inflation: Inflation is a monetary phenomenon arising from a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output (though, of course, the reasons for the increase in money may be various). In today's world government determines--or can determine--the quantity of money. There is only one cure for inflation: a slower rate of increase in the quantity of money. It takes time--measured .. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 71c816e | A fourth argument, one that was made by Alexander Hamilton and continues to be repeated down to the present, is that free trade would be fine if all other countries practiced free trade but that so long as they do not, the United States cannot afford to. This argument has no validity whatsoever, either in principle or in practice. Other countries that impose restrictions on international trade do hurt us. But they also hurt themselves. Asid.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 6c9345d | One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers. The winners regard the good things that happen to them as the natural result of their own foresight, prudence, and initiative. They regard the bad things, the rise in the prices of the things they buy, as produced by forces outside their control. Almost everyone will say that he is against infl.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| fba1849 | To the despair of every economist, it seems almost impossible for most people other than trained economists to comprehend how a price system works. Reporters and TV commentators seem especially resistant to the elementary principles they supposedly imbibed in freshman economics. Second, | Milton Friedman | ||
| 31460fd | No arbitrary obstacles should prevent people from achieving those positions for which their talents fit them and which their values lead them to seek. Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person--only his abilities. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 099ba23 | A common objection to totalitarian societies is that they regard the end as justifying the means. Taken literally, this objection is clearly illogical. If the end does not justify the means, what does? But this easy answer does not dispose of the objection; it simply shows that the objection is not well put. To deny that the end justifies the means is indirectly to assert that the end in question is not the ultimate end, that the ultimate e.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 0be8a3d | Nor do the spokesmen for these organizations ever explain why, if the public school system is doing such a splendid job, it needs to fear competition from nongovernmental, competitive schools or, if it isn't, why anyone should object to its "destruction." -- | Milton Friedman | ||
| 8895d3e | Currently, the only widely available alternative to a local public school is a parochial school. Only churches have been in a position to subsidize schooling on a large scale and only subsidized schooling can compete with "free" schooling. (Try selling a product that someone else is giving away!) The voucher plan would produce a much wider range of alternatives--unless it was sabotaged by excessively rigid standards for "approval." The choi.. | Milton Friedman | ||
| a5e923d | The threat to public schools arises from their defects, not their accomplishments. In small, closely knit communities where public schools, particularly elementary schools, are now reasonably satisfactory, not even the most comprehensive voucher plan would have much effect. The public schools would remain dominant, perhaps somewhat improved by the threat of potential competition. But elsewhere, and particularly in the urban slums where the .. | Milton Friedman |