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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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Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.
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I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.
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I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
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The brain is where most people really screw up.
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If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
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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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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
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