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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.

Tim Ferriss

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
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
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
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
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
I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Abundance Money Myself Relationship
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
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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Easy Enjoyment Examination Intense Life Money Myself Necessary
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
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
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself
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
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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Approve Attack Believe Calm Carry Expectation Focus Hope Resistance 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

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