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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3a16502 | suicide.org for a list of international hotlines. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 60f1583 | What I'm finding is that microdoses of LSD or mushrooms may be very helpful for depression because they make you feel better enough that you do something about what's wrong with your life. We've made [depression] an illness. It may be the body's way of saying, 'You better deal with something, because it's making you really sad. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 84f2995 | If you don't have cancer and you do a therapeutic fast 1 to 3 times per year, you could purge any precancerous cells that may be living in your body. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d38f32c | Whether you are raising money, pitching your product to customers, selling the company, or recruiting employees, never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human beings. We want to attach ourselves to narratives. We don't act because of equations. We follow our beliefs. We get behind leaders who stir our feelings. In the early days of your venture, if you find someone diving too .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a62e075 | If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 03ac53b | Martin Luther King, Jr., famously remarked that "justice too long delayed is justice denied." Learning" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9579a32 | PETER: "The pitch was, 'Listen, wouldn't you want entrepreneurs around the world to be working on new technologies so that this is off your balance sheet?'" TF:" -- | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b68545d | Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 786e445 | I ask them, 'How will you disrupt yourself, and how are you trying to disrupt yourself? If you're not, you're in for a real surprise.' Find the smartest 20-somethings in your company. I don't care if they're in the mail room or where they are. Give them permission to figure out how they would take down your company." PETER" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1b27f04 | Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d1f0aa8 | Fasting essentially slows (sometimes stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation." There" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6a7a356 | What are the biggest tech trends that you see defining the future? "I don't like talking in terms of tech 'trends' because I think, once you have a trend, you have many people doing it. And once you have many people doing something, you have lots of competition and little differentiation. You, generally, never want to be part of a popular trend. You do not want to be the fourth online pet food company in the late 1990s. You do not want to b.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ad5a3c9 | I'm not sure how much the formal study of philosophy matters, but I think the fundamental philosophical question is one that's important for all of us, and it's always this question of 'What do people agree merely by convention, and what is the truth? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3c32fe5 | The blog post I point people to the most is called 'First, Ten,' and it is a simple theory of marketing that says: tell ten people, show ten people, share it with ten people; ten people who already trust you and already like you. If they don't tell anybody else, it's not that good and you should start over. If they do tell other people, you're on your way." TO" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4b0b09b | TO CREATE SOMETHING GREAT (OR EVENTUALLY HUGE), START EXTREMELY SMALL "My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What's the smallest possible footprint I can get away with?" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| cfd74f5 | A) You should taste the food as you go, which a surprisingly small number of people do; and B) salt and olive oil actually are cheating and they're secret weapons and they always work." Audiogon" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fc84f11 | If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I cook dinner every night. Because what a wonderful, semi-distracted environment in which the kid can tell you the truth. For you to have low-stakes but superimportant conversations with someone who's important to.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6a33ea8 | I think we need to teach kids two things: 1) how to lead, and 2) how to solve interesting problems. Because the fact is, there are plenty of countries on Earth where there are people who are willing to be obedient and work harder for less money than us. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b16093c | When I hear stories of success and failure, I look for the little things that made a big difference. What conventional wisdom was shunned? ... | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d6153f8 | Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5c44850 | out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need--we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts. In this way, as we throw our wealth at an abstract notion called "lifestyle," travel becomes just another accessory--a smooth-edged, encapsulated experience that we purchase in the same way we buy clothing and furniture. Not" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 6309267 | Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life--6 weeks, 4 months, 2 years--to travel the world on your own terms. But | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 7cebf11 | Vagabonding is an attitude--a friendly interest in people, places, and things | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| a767a62 | From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises. In | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0593226 | Rather, it's the ongoing practice of looking and learning, of facing fears and altering habits, of cultivating a new fascination in people and places. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| dd561e5 | the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. If it wasn't a crazy idea, it's not a breakthrough; it's an incremental improvement. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8d6ffa0 | The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8b6ab71 | Law 2: When given a choice ... take both. Law | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| eda086c | What are the top-three activities that I use to fill time to feel as though I've been productive? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b609b0a | Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1035d7e | If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 5d420b1 | Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence, or a vice: It is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e42e3c8 | Named must your fear be before banish it you can." --Yoda, from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 35fb33b | The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 59852c0 | Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1b451e7 | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| c6f077a | What would you do if there were no way you could fail? If you were 10 times smarter than the rest of the world? Create two timelines--6 months and 12 months--and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order. If you have.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 14b7db2 | Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 59b113c | Rule #1: Avoid "white" carbohydrates (or anything that can be white). Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again. Rule #3: Don't drink calories. Rule #4: Don't eat fruit. Rule #5: Take one day off per week and go nuts." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d87f232 | The most important thing I've learned about nutrition is you need to deserve your carbs | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| bae16ba | Three to five billion new consumers are coming online in the next 6 years. Holy cow, that's extraordinary. What do they need? What | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 44a7deb | Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3d5f5e6 | Stay humble or get humbled. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 4fcb72b | Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher." | Timothy Ferriss |