There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
TIM FERRISSUncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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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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To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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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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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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If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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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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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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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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