Tim Ferriss Quotes
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.
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Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.
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You and your friends could plan the trip of a lifetime in 6-18 months to visit the completed school, teeming with dozens or hundreds of students who greet you with smiles and thank you letters. You'll know it's your school because your names will be on the door.
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
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Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.
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I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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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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In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
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The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
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I take notes like some people take drugs.
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner.
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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.