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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

Tim Ferriss

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
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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
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
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
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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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
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
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
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
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
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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 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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time

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