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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Tim Ferriss

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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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 universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
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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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
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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Dreams Hold People Trouble
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
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
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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Approve Attack Believe Calm Carry Expectation Focus Hope Resistance Yourself
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking

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