Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
TIM FERRISSThere are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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Exercise is overrated.
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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Reality is negotiable.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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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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Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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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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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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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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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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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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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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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.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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