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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?'

Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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East Hampton
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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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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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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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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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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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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
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World barista champions use the AeroPress to make coffee on the folding tray tables of airplanes.
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I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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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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If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Perfection is an impossible destination
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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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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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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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