Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

This is another one that took me a long time to learn. Starting something doesn't automatically justify finishing it.

One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism by Rodney Stark The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett. How consciousness arises, and how much it depends on a sense of past, present, and future (plus a lot of other interesting insights).

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem.

At least three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question:

ANY TIME I'M TELLING MYSELF, 'BUT I'M MAKING SO MUCH MONEY,' THAT'S A WARNING SIGN THAT I'M DOING THE WRONG THING.

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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" —SENECA

after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy,

Tener más fortaleza» era, sobre todo, una decisión para tener más fortaleza.

I'd rather die doing something I feel is great and amazing rather than be safe and comfortable living a life I hate.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The system is the solution. —AT&T

The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.

lo que he dicho es que no todo el mundo debe seguir los mismos pasos.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking, why the hell not? Why not you? Why not now?

If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly. And I've been burned enough times by FOMO-based and ego-based decision-making to know that I'll always regret choosing to do something for the wrong reason.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away." –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry French writer, author of The Little Prince

Brave Enough by Cheryl Strayed.

This doesn't mean you want to spend your time doing it. If you spend your time, worth $20–25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources. It is important to take baby steps toward paying others to do work for you.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

There is a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Many are fooled into thinking they are the same thing, but they are not. I have seen intelligent serial killers, but I've never seen a wise one.

Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything." Substitute "master learner" for "novel," and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.