Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

The second strategy is fairly easy. Everyone has at least a few areas in which they could be in the top 25% with some effort. In my case, I can draw better than most people, but I'm hardly an artist. And I'm not any funnier than the average standup comedian who never makes it big, but I'm funnier than most people. The magic is that few people can draw well and write jokes. It's the combination of the two that makes what I do so rare.

Try it—write down a precise sequence of curse words that takes 7 to 10 seconds to read. Then, before a creative work session of some type, read it quickly and loudly like you're casting a spell or about to go postal. Eric also finds late nights, around 3 a.m., to be ideal for deep creative work.

La segunda ley (Prensa científica, 1992), «escrita por un profesor de Fisicoquímica de Oxford llamado P. W. Atkins.

but you can start with a cold water "finish" to showers. Simply make the last 30 to 60 seconds of your shower pure cold.

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.

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

Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Understanding this

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Alison Gopnik's Scientist in the Crib

Biology isn't about blunt force.

Descubrir el propósito o la misión que te guía en la vida

Merchant: ". . . If you are without possessions, how can you give?" Siddhartha: "Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish." Merchant: "Very well, and what can you give? What have you learned that you can give?" Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast." Merchant: "Is that all?" Siddhartha: "I think that is all.

The core of it was to be your unapologetically weird self. I think authenticity is one of the most lacking things out there these days.

TF: There is a big difference between understanding something (what you want in a physician) and simply knowing its name or labeling it.

Ultimately, your gift to the world is being who you are. It is both your gift and your fulfillment.

Success should not be measured by financial gain; true success is doing something you love for a living.

Feel free to lift together, but fail alone.

Be the silence that listens." –Tara Brach

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." –Frederick Douglass

Creo que desnaturaliza la búsqueda de una formación laboral satisfactoria y de un trabajo satisfactorio,

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,

You may even find that there's no reason to ever stop doing it, even once you've graduated to heading your own projects. Let it become natural and permanent; let others apply it to you while you're too busy applying it to those above you. Because if you pick up this mantle once, you'll see what most people's egos prevent them from appreciating: The person who clears the path ultimately controls its direction, just as the canvas shapes the painting.

Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?