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.
TIM FERRISSJust 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.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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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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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Reality is negotiable.
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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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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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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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