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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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East Hampton
New York
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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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Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves
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What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.
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I really feel like knife skills - not just in the kitchen, but in life - are really critical.
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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
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Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.
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Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.
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For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.
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I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
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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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The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
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The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control.
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When you elevate the heels more so than you elevate the sole of the foot, you trigger a cascade of compensations in the knees and hips that cause tight hip flexors, and then those hip flexors cause lower-back pain.
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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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Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
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