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Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Tim Ferriss

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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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Action Definition Greatness Negative Risk
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
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Better Improvement Time Yourself
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
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Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness

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