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

Tim Ferriss

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
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
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
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
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work 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
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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
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
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
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit 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
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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Easy Enjoyment Examination Intense Life Money Myself Necessary
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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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Correct Important Way 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
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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