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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96b2369 | Not-to-do lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance. The reason is simple. What you don't do determines what you can do. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0ed8da2 | These world-class performers don't have superpowers. The rules they've crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they've learned how to do this, and so can you. These "rules" are often uncommon habits and bigger questions. In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more "impossible" the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instanc.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3f15830 | The stars will never align | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 821d600 | The more absurd, the more "impossible" the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instance, a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: "If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months?" For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: "What might you do to accomplish your 10-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun aga.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1e2ef5e | For People Starting Out--Say "Yes" When Derek was 18, he was living in Boston, attending the Berklee College of Music. "I'm in this band where the bass player, one day in rehearsal, says, 'Hey man, my agent just offered me this gig--it's like $ 75 to play at a pig show in Vermont.' He rolls his eyes, and he says, 'I'm not gonna do it, do you want the gig?' I'm like, 'Fuck yeah, a paying gig?! Oh, my God! Yes!' So, I took the gig to go up to.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 030e1c8 | There have been several points in my life--among them, just before I was fired from TrueSAN and just before I escaped the U.S. to avoid taking an Uzi into McDonald's--at which I saw my future as another fat man in a midlife-crisis BMW. I simply looked at those who were 15-20 years ahead of me on the same track, whether a director of sales or an entrepreneur in the same industry, and it scared the hell out of me. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| e7a95b2 | Dude, are you turning into the bald fat man in the red BMW convertible? | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 04469ac | The worst that could happen wasn't crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo. Remember--boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 56d0b7d | Here in a little lonely roomAnd the planets come to me. | Arthur Symons | ||
| e71cf7c | Don't Be a Donkey TIM: "What advice would you give to your 30-year-old self?" DEREK: "Don't be a donkey." TIM: "And what does that mean?" DEREK: "Well, I meet a lot of 30-year-olds who are trying to pursue many different directions at once, but not making progress in any, right? They get frustrated that the world wants them to pick one thing, because they want to do them all: 'Why do I have to choose? I don't know what to choose!' But the p.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 25add36 | The superheroes you have in your mind (idols, icons, titans, billionaires, etc.) are nearly all walking flaws who've maximized 1 or 2 strengths. Humans are imperfect creatures. 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 make this crystal-clear, I've deliberately included two sections in this book (pages 197 and 616) that will make you .. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 9dbf2e4 | Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where ..." said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. --LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland The" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b030418 | If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as "the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome," inaction is the greatest risk of all." | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1f84000 | Map and Territory and How to Actually Change Your Mind by Eliezer Yudkowsky. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 21f41ab | You can't blame your boss for not giving you the support you need. Plenty of people will say, 'It's my boss's fault.' No, it's actually your fault because you haven't educated him, you haven't influenced him, you haven't explained to him in a manner he understands why you need this support that you need. That's extreme ownership. Own it all." A Good Reason to Be an Early Riser "I'm up and getting after it by 4: 45. I like to have that psych.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 39d8353 | Who do you think of when you hear the word "successful"? "The first people who come to mind are the real heroes of Task Unit Bruiser: Marc Lee, first SEAL killed in Iraq. Mike Monsoor, second SEAL killed in Iraq, posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor after he jumped on a grenade to save three of our other teammates. And finally, Ryan Job, one of my guys [who was] gravely wounded in Iraq, blinded in both eyes, but who made it back to Ameri.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b60df20 | Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d7b790b | Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. It is much like goal-setting but differs in several fundamental respects: 1. The goals shift from ambiguous wants to defined steps. 2. The goals have to be unrealistic to be effective. 3. It focuses on activities that will fill the vacuum created when work is removed. Living like a millionaire requires doing interesting things and not just owning enviab.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1005fe2 | know that the only reason you're here on this planet is to follow your star and do what the Muse | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3a57e6a | The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 58e6cf4 | I have laid sorrow to sleep;Now weeps. | Arthur Symons | ||
| 0f7fdd8 | Follow Your Passion" Is Terrible Advice "I think it misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the biggest predictor of job satisfaction is mentally engaging work. It's the nature of the job itself. It's not got that much to do with you. . . . It's whether the job provides a lot of variety, gives you good feedback, allows you to exercise autonomy, contributes to the wider world--Is it actually meaningfu.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 743b170 | Magnesium and calcium are easiest to consume in pill form, and 500 milligrams of magnesium taken prior to bed will also improve sleep. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 3a1ca70 | The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. --RICHARD P. FEYNMAN, Nobel Prize-winning physicist | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2942970 | What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. --HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics8 and the A.M. Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science" | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d5714db | Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 8d7cf6f | The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past. --BILL GATES, cofounder of Microsoft, richest man in the world | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| ca330ef | The student who elects to risk it all--which is nothing--to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 552e4ee | A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? --DON MARQUIS I | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 83ab361 | If you're looking for an abdominal exercise well-suited to power development without bulk, look no further than the Janda sit-up. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f47fe61 | Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| d3d4b69 | Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 0c6c42d | Give your good bacteria an upgrade and get your microbiome in shape. Faster fat-loss and better mental health are just two of the benefits. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fc6f093 | Several families interviewed for this book recommended the oldest persuasive tool known to man: bribery. Each child is given some amounts of virtual cash, 25-30 cents, for each hour of good behaviour. The same amount is subtracted from their accounts for breaking the rules. All purchases for fun - whether souvenirs, ice cream, or otherwise - come out of their own individual accounts. No balance, no goodies. This often requires more self-con.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 2cda6eb | My first job. Ah, the memories. I'm hired for minimum wage as the cleaner at an ice cream parlor and quickly realize that the big boss's methods duplicate effort. I do it my way, finish in one hour instead of eight, and spend the rest of the time reading kung-fu magazines and practicing karate kicks outside. I am fired in a record three days, left with the parting comment, "Maybe someday you'll understand the value of hard work." It seems I.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| edad5dd | What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method. | material selection | Timothy Ferriss | |
| 082ed22 | We should remember the warning of the wise Grail knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: "You must choose, but choose wisely, for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you." Choose the highest-yield material and you can be an idiot and enjoy stunning success. Choose poorly and, as the Grail knight implied, you're screwed no matter what. You'll chase your own tail for years." | warning wisdom | Timothy Ferriss | |
| b20a700 | As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz." | patience self-talk | Timothy Ferriss | |
| 4c4babc | May all of your creations have just the right flavor, | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 1472c83 | SLOW DANCE Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Runnin.. | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 028f480 | Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. --Antoine de Saint-Exup | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| b0143f1 | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. --ALBERT EINSTEIN | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| f0eb6ba | Specifically, let's say you were interviewing Chris, you'd say, 'Everyone says Chris is great, but . . .' and then you'd sit there in silence. Do | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| fca23f6 | You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal." | Timothy Ferriss |