Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."—Omar N. Bradley

building trust is a powerful door to possibility.

To boil water, the MED is 212°F (100°C) at standard air pressure. Boiled is boiled. Higher temperatures will not make it "more boiled." Higher temperatures just consume more resources that could be used for something else more productive.

While people often say there's not enough time, remember that you'll always have less attention than time. Full attention is where you do your best work, and everyone's going to be looking to rip it from you. Protect and preserve it.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

So if you're planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can't you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it's at least worth asking whether that's the story you're telling yourself, or whether that's the reality.

If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach. During this forced break from the beach, let's assume one week, someone else who heeded his natural 15-minute MED will be able to fit in four more tanning sessions. He is four shades darker, whereas you have returned to your pale pre-beach self.

What policy was I following that produced this bad outcome, and do I still expect that policy to give the best results overall, occasional bad outcomes notwithstanding?

Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family, business, etc., with expiration dates, and I update them every 6 months.

The worst thing you can ever do is think that you know enough.

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

Persistence matters more than talent. The student with straight As is irrelevant if the student sitting next to him with Bs has more passion.

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

This will set the stage for replacing yourself with Automation, which in turn permits Liberation. For both tracks, some definitions are in order.

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash?

Jayber Crowe (by Wendell Berry)

As Brandon Stanton put it, "Sometimes you need to allow life to save you from what you want.

Laird was one of my surfing teachers in my TV series, The Tim Ferriss Experiment,

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore.

Great men have almost always shown themselves as ready to obey as they afterwards proved able to command." —Lord Mahon If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest. Earn with your mind, not your time. 99% of all effort is wasted. Total honesty at all times. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett).