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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

Tim Ferriss

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right 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
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
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
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
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
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
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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