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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
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A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
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Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
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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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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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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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It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.
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I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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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.
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
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I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
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Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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