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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Tim Ferriss

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way 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
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
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
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
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
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

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