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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

Tim Ferriss

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
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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
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
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
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
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money

Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

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