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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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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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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.
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Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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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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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
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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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If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? 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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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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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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You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.
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Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your blind date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.
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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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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.
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