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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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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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I'm often asked how I define success. It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable. Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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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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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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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder don't work harder.
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It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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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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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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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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Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.
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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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If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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