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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Tim Ferriss

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
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
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
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 you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
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 best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
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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