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I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.
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If you let pride stop you, you will hate life.
Tim Ferriss
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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
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People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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The brain is where most people really screw up.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
Tim Ferriss -
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
Tim Ferriss
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Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
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There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.
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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
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People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
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Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?
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Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.
Tim Ferriss
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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.
Tim Ferriss -
Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.
Tim Ferriss -
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
Tim Ferriss
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There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
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By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves to do otherwise: 'John, I'd love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I've got at least three hours of unimportant email to reply to before calling prospects who said 'no' yesterday. Gotta run!
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
Tim Ferriss