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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.

Tim Ferriss

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
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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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
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
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
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
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
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step

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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