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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Tim Ferriss

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
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
If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Action Difference Mental Remember Slow Thinking
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
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
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

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