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

Tim Ferriss

Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
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
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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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Correct Important Way Yourself
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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
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
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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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word

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