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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.
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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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People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
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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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Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.
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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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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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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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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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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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By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.
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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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You can enjoy stargazing just by going out and learning a couple constellations with your kids.
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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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If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.
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The commonsense rules of the real world are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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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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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
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