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Tim Ferriss

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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way 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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
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
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
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
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
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
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
This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself

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