Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

expulsamos a un par de jefes de cada equipo SEAL por su incapacidad para mandar.

First of all, if we're serious all the time, we'll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done. Second, if this book were all stern looks and no winks, all productivity and no grab-assing, you'd remember very little. I agree with Tony Robbins (page 210) that information without emotion isn't retained.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. —HEINRICH HEINE, German critic and poet

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles." To do the impossible (sail around the world, break the four-minute mile, reach the moon), you need to ignore the popular.

How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton.

Y el 99,9 por ciento de las veces no era porque no supieran disparar un arma,

Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are tested. The same is true in life and in lifestyles.

I can wait" ? Being able to plan long-term, play the long game, and not misallocate your resources. "I can fast" ? Being able to withstand difficulties and disaster. Training yourself to be uncommonly resilient and have a high pain tolerance.

So they believe the trend makes no sense. But what makes no sense is their model of the world. That's what doesn't make sense. The world always makes sense.

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

Then, I did what I often do—whether considering a business decision, personal relationship, or otherwise—I asked myself the one question that helps answer many others . . . What would this look like if it were easy?

Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical

Going 16 hours without eating generally provides the right balance of autophagy (look it up) and anabolism (muscle building).

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817–1862)

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales.

I ask them, 'How will you disrupt yourself, and how are you trying to disrupt yourself? If you're not, you're in for a real surprise.' Find the smartest 20-somethings in your company. I don't care if they're in the mail room or where they are. Give them permission to figure out how they would take down your company." PETER

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett.

Remembering that destination will help you make the single most important distinction in life, which is to distinguish between an opportunity to be seized and a temptation to be resisted.

Así que me he vuelto, creo, mucho más consciente con los años de la naturaleza problemática de un exceso de competitividad.

Yo suelo usar alguna fórmula del tipo: «Gracias por tu comentario. Siempre procuro mejorar. Mientras tanto, espero que encuentres lo que estás buscando».

Feel good about really hearing those who disagree with you.

El éxito es: ¿te recuerdan tus hijos por ser el mejor padre? No un padre que les diera todo lo que pedían, sino, ¿serán capaces algún día de contarte lo que sea? ¿Te llamarán cualquier día sin venir a cuento, da igual para qué? ¿Eres la primera persona en la que piensan para pedir consejo? Y, al mismo tiempo, ¿eres capaz de romper moldes en cualquier cosa que decidas ser en la

Am I going be the kind of guy who doesn't exercise ever? Or not? And if the answer is 'not,' then why not right now?