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Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.
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If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.
Tim Ferriss
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I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.
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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.
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Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.
Tim Ferriss
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
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If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
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$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
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Seemingly unrelated things that are in fact really related, that's the stuff I like to talk about. Like dancing, language learning, swimming, three-pointers.
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Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.
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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.
Tim Ferriss
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Tim Ferriss
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I didn't even like white wine. Then I tasted it and bought a case. It was the first case of any wine I'd ever bought.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
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It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.
Tim Ferriss