Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Basic Tenets for Strength "Strength is the mother quality of all physical qualities." "Strength is a skill, and, as such, it must be practiced." "Lift heavy, not hard." "Anything more than 5 reps is bodybuilding. . . . If you want to be strong, you want to keep your reps at 5 and under.

To do what you desire to do, you have all you need.

Somos los que simulamos ser".»

NR: To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load").

Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Big, undreamed-of things—the people on the edge see them first." —Kurt Vonnegut "Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition." —W.H. Auden

If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In the beginning of your career, you spend time to earn money. Once you hit your stride in any capacity, you should spend money to earn time, as the latter is nonrenewable. It can be hard to make and maintain this gear shift, so the above question is in my regular journaling rotation.

Too much free time is no more than fertilizer for self-doubt and assorted mental tail-chasing. Subtracting the bad does not create the good. It leaves a vacuum. Decreasing income-driven work isn't the end goal. Living more—and becoming more—is.

there is only one you, and no one can do things exactly the way you do. Never worry about the competition.

Dime algo que sea verdad y con lo que muy poca gente esté de acuerdo".»

all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales, people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

I don't care why people pick up cookbooks. I'm much more interested in why they put them down.

It's good to recognize trends, but if you follow them, you get sucked into them, and then you also fall with the trend.

If you don't give young men a good and useful group to belong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. But one way or another, they're going to create a group, and they're going to find something, an adversary, where they can demonstrate their prowess and their unity.

often in people's 30s or 40s, a stage where you begin crafting your own language for what you do as an increasingly "strong poet"—you make your craft your own and view your life as more self-expression than simply playing out other people's roles for you.

People who avoid criticism will fail.

If the potential payoff is mediocre or average, so is your effort.

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. —ANATOLE FRANCE, author of The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

The War of Art,

Tal vez suene demencial, pero me miro al espejo y me sonrío a mí mismo…

Nuestro objetivo no es crear un negocio lo más grande posible, sino un negocio que nos moleste lo menos posible.

If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maintain than having to make small decision after small decision to stay the course when dealing with each step along the way. This provides far too many opportunities to inadvertently drift from your chosen goal. The single decision is one of the most powerful tools in the toolbox.

Everyone has their own journey. People who offer great advice understand that their goal is to help someone on their unique journey. People who offer bad advice are trying to relive their old glories.

frame the importance of the first 60 to 90 minutes of the day.