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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a039d85 | Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things--the people on the edge see them first." --Kurt Vonnegut" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ae7e60a | Who weeps for these, weeps for corruption! | Arthur Miller | ||
| bbfd44d | He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him! | Arthur Miller | ||
| 283b595 | Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 72e702e | I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that atoms [physical products] are actually very difficult. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| db69773 | Which of these highest-value activities is the easiest for me to do? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bc912c0 | The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." --Neil Gaiman, University of the Arts commencement speech" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8eb4e63 | Brene Brown | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cf26075 | You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a6cfd13 | The 4-Hour Workweek Films: The Bourne Identity, Shaun of the Dead "Flow" album: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires by Federico Aubele "Wake-up" album: One-X by Three Days Grace The 4-Hour Body Films: Casino Royale, Snatch "Flow" album: Luciano Essential Mix (2009, Ibiza) featuring DeadMau5 "Wake-up" album: Cold Day Memory by Sevendust The 4-Hour Chef Films: Babe (Yes, the pig movie. It was the first thing that popped up for free under Amazon Prime. I .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5ee647d | But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first]. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dbbd31d | My answer is: Be clear that your ladder is leaning against the right building. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2c35d0a | We are simultaneously gods and worms."--Abraham Maslow" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 797ab31 | Workout A All exercises, except for kettlebell swings, are performed for 10 repetitions using a 13-Repetition Max2 (RM) weight. 1. Heavy dumbbell front squat to press (ass to heels)--squeeze glutes at bottom for one second before rising 2. One-arm, one-leg DB row 3. Walking lunges with sprinter knee raise 4. Wide-grip push-ups3 5. Two-arm kettlebell swings x 20-25 Repeat sequence 2-4 times. Workout | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 937950b | You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ae35ef3 | Workout B 1. One-leg Romanian Deadlift (RDL)4 (10-12 reps each side) 2. Chin-up (four-second negative lowering portion only) x 10 or until you cannot control descent5 3. One-leg hamstring curls on a Swiss ball--6-12 reps each leg 4. Plank for abs (and gluteus medius on sides) - Progression: start with 30 seconds front, 30 seconds each side, working up to 90 seconds maximum 5. Reverse hyper x 15-25 Repeat sequence 2-4 times. See | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c41fd4a | Greatness comes from humble beginnings; it comes from grunt work. It means you're the least important person in the room--until you change that with results. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9329b18 | If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fdb35e5 | What we fear doing is usually what we most need to do. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a8af855 | In negotiation, he who cares the least wins." He" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 655b6bb | Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9a5dbb9 | Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn't want cogs anymore. Parents get to decide . . . [and] from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., those kids are getting homeschooled. And they're either getting home-schooled and watching The Flintstones, or they're getting homeschooled and learning something useful. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8b8faff | How to thrive in an unknowable future? Choose the plan with the most options. The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 46f73d5 | I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it. | Arthur Miller | ||
| 79dc33e | No idea is so big that you can't take the first step. If the first step seems too hard, make it simpler. And don't worry again if the idea is bad. This is all practice. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1b50ccb | 11--What if I could only subtract to solve problems? From 2008 to 2009, I began to ask myself, "What if I could only subtract to solve problems?" when advising startups. Instead of answering, "What should we do?" I tried first to hone in on answering, "What should we simplify?" For instance, I always wanted to tighten the conversion fishing net (the percentage of visitors who sign up or buy) before driving a ton of traffic to one of my port.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c4f6625 | When you make a business, you're making a little world where you control the laws. It doesn't matter how things are done everywhere else. In your little world, you can make it like it should be. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6b48d9b | 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 Everything popular is wrong. --OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5b8710c | There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 13e0cf5 | The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." --Neil Gaiman, University" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cddfd3d | Why aim for a mere $100K when I can try to build a billion-dollar business?" Two reasons: 1) Aiming for the latter from the outset often leads to neglecting the high-touch 1,000 true fans who act as your most powerful unpaid marketing force for "crossing the chasm" into the mainstream. If you don't build that initial army, you're likely to fail. 2) Do you really want to build and manage a big company? For most people, it's not a fun experie.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1a5a44d | You do not have to sacrifice the integrity of your art for a respectable income. You just need to create a great experience and charge enough. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 238dd5b | Cincinnatus. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3d1fedd | If it's not ready, we're not going to send it out, and just hope they don't notice that it's not that good. We'll fix it. We'll do something else, but don't try to slip by something that you know is below the standard.' You | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 45b939b | Hold the standard. Ask for help. Fix it. Do whatever's necessary. But don't cheat. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c2aeb05 | How do you know if you have A-players on your project team? You know it if they don't just accept the strategy you hand them. They should suggest modifications to the plan based on their closeness to the details. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 921b86e | When you complain, nobody wants to help you, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b078121 | Marc Andreessen (here) long ago referred to the above double-/triple-threat concept, citing Scott's writing, as "even the secret formula to becoming a CEO. All successful CEOs are like this." He reiterated that you could also cultivate this in school by getting unusual combinations of degrees, like engineering + MBA, law degree + MBA, or undergrad physics + economics." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 47266b2 | The Silver Spoon, the best-selling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years. To | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 928d871 | The Art of Simple Food by Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters lined | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6306a0a | When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is." And: "Good cooking is no mystery. You don't need years of culinary training, or rare and costly foodstuffs, or an encyclopedic knowledge of world cuisines. You need only your own five senses." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 590387c | Commit, within financial reason, to action instead of theory. Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of academia. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5d8f133 | All you do is you pick a goal and you write it down 15 times a day in some specific sentence form, like 'I, Scott Adams, will become an astronaut,' for example. And you do that every day. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1f8d0e9 | The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I'm hardly an artist. And I'm not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I'm funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It's the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare. | Timothy Ferriss |