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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.

Tim Ferriss

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
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
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
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
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
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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Control Discipline Independent Value
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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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception 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
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
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
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step

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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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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