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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Tim Ferriss

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
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
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
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
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
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
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
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 a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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
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
Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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Better Improvement Time Yourself
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 you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
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

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