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There is always more information than attention.

Tim Ferriss

Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
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
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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Design Feeling Life Luxury Option Yourself
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
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
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
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
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
Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work

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