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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Tim Ferriss

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
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
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
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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.
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Count Difficult Learning
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
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
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step

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