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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.

Tim Ferriss

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
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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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
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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Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
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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Control Discipline Independent Value
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality

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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