Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Kettlebell windmills (or "high windmills") are incredible for hip rehab and "prehab." The standing position is similar to yoga's trikonasana, but you support 70 to 80% of your weight on one leg while you keep a kettlebell overhead. YouTube is your friend.

Other recession-born babies include Monopoly, Apple, Clif Bar, Scrabble, KFC, Domino's Pizza, FedEx, and Microsoft. This is no coincidence, as economic downturns produce discounted infrastructure, outstanding freelancers at bargain prices, and rock-bottom advertising deals—all impossible when everyone is optimistic.

Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance. Retirement planning is like life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a hedge against the absolute worst-case scenario: in this case, becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

Put the Big Stones in First

Part of knowing who you are is knowing who you're not.

Una barrita de proteínas Clif Builder de veinte gramos con sabor a chocolate y mantequilla de cacahuete.

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Study the Opposites In addition to studying his competition in tech and early-stage investing, Marc studies value investors on the completely opposite side of the spectrum, such as Warren Buffett and Seth Klarman. This doesn't mean they invest in the same types of companies; rather, the synergy is related to first principles.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." –Mae West

emprendedor en el sentido más puro del término, tal como fue acuñado en 1800 por el economista francés J. B. Say: alguien que traslada recursos económicos desde un ámbito donde producen menos a otro donde rindan más.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel

There's the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there's the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.

When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do? Whenever I feel overwhelmed, I complain to my wife about it. After listening patiently for about 30 seconds, she generally tells me to STFU. Then I meditate or work out.

If you can't define or act upon it, forget it.

I like to promote mild to moderate ketosis for health and longevity, which is between 1 to 3 mmol.

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things," he said. "Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

When we feel pain in one time zone—meaning past, present, or future—we just switch to another time zone rather than change, because change brings so much uncertainty and so much instability and so much fear to people.

zero drop: "Don't systematically shorten your kids' heel cords (Achilles) with bad shoes. It results in crappy ankle range of motion in the future. Get your kids Vans, Chuck Taylors, or similar shoes. Have them in flat shoes or barefoot as much as possible.

Tracking anything is better than tracking nothing. If you are very overweight, very weak, very inflexible, or very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes. This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don't have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

Be a member of your target market and don't speculate what others need or will be willing to buy.

We're wired completely opposite in that sense. Basically, he's betting against change. We're betting for change. When he makes a mistake, it's because something changes that he didn't expect. When we make a mistake, it's because something doesn't change that we thought would. We could not be more different in that way. But

Celebrate the childlike mind." Steve Jurvetson

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. —HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics8 and the A.M. Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science

Bruce Pandolfini, Josh's original chess teacher, started their first class by taking him in reverse. The board was empty, except for three pieces in an endgame scenario: king and pawn against king.