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

Tim Ferriss

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
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
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 decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
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
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
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself

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