Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us.

Boner or No Boner? "Men, if you wake up and you don't have a boner, there's a problem. Yes or no? One or zero? Boner, no boner?

You are 99 years old, you are on your deathbed, and you have a chance to come back to right now: what would you do?

Pienso en los problemas como minas de oro. Los problemas más grandes del mundo son las mayores oportunidades de negocio del mundo».

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win. He has since authored a best-selling children's book, Way of the Warrior Kid, and his latest, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, which details his unique mental and physical "operating system.

Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams. It is much like goal-setting but differs in several fundamental respects: 1. The goals shift from ambiguous wants to defined steps. 2. The goals have to be unrealistic to be effective. 3. It focuses on activities that will fill the vacuum created when work is removed. Living like a millionaire requires doing interesting things and not just owning enviable things.

How is it different and why should I buy it? ONE sentence or phrase, folks. Apple did an excellent job of this with the iPod. Instead of using the usual industry jargon with GB, bandwidth, and so forth, they simply said, "1,000 songs in your pocket.

Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse

In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa.

WHAT INTERESTING THING ARE YOU WORKING ON? WHY IS THAT INTERESTING TO YOU? WHAT'S SURPRISING ABOUT THAT? IS ANYBODY ELSE THINKING ABOUT THIS?" These are common questions

The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." –Terry Pratchett

Hay un proceso en el que una vez que despejas la mente, tienes que dejar que vuelva a llenarse. Lo llamarás de otra manera, pero yo sé que lo haces. Así que la dejas en blanco, y dejas que se inunde con cosas nuevas que no son las mismas que la llenaban antes.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau

Think for yourself while being radically open-minded." Ray Dalio

Cuando el 99 por ciento de la gente duda de ti, es porque o estás completamente equivocado, o estás a punto de hacer historia.»

Try one or more of Chade-Meng Tan's suggested exercises, starting on page 154. They are simple and brilliant. I practice a few times per week, often in the sauna.

It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.

There is a way to get the rewards for a life of hard work without waiting until the end.

Make this trade a habit. Let the small bad things happen and make the big good things happen.

If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." –Colonel David Hackworth Former United States Army colonel and prominent military journalist

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. It is easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Seeing as how nothing is outside the vast, wide-meshed net of heaven, who is there to say just how it is cast?" "I find good people good, and I find bad people good, if I am good enough.

Question Cal Suggests Asking People More Often "What are some of the choices you've made that made you who you are?