Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.
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The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
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Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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Online I see people committing 'social media suicide' all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you're never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don't warrant a response. This lends more credibility by driving traffic.
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I take notes like some people take drugs.
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Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
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People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.
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People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
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The key to having more time is doing less, and there are two paths to get there, both of which should be used together: Define a short to-do list and define a not-to-do list.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
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Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.