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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.

Tim Ferriss

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Abundance Money Myself Relationship
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
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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Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
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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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
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
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
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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Action Difference Mental Remember Slow Thinking
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution 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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