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I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Tim Ferriss

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
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
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
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
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
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
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
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
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
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

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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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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