Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Life will go faster than you know. It will be tempting to live a life that impresses others.

If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, you must go together.

Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it's learning how to dance in the rain

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

Mindfulness: guía práctica para encontrar la paz en un mundo frenético (Paidós, 2013), de Mark Williams

Were my goals my own, or simply what I thought I should want? How much of life had I missed from underplanning or overplanning?

Be focused on work or focused on something else, never in-between.

Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.

You must seize opportunities when they present themselves, not when they are convenient or obvious. The only way to cultivate your own luck is to be more flexible (you'll need to give up something for the right opportunity), humble (timing is out of your control), and gracious (when you see it, seize it!). Life's greatest opportunities run on their own schedule, not yours.

When you are just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) you have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

Look for a partner you'll try to impress daily, and one who will try to impress you." Over the last couple decades, I've noticed that the best, most enduring partnerships in business (and in life) are among people who are constantly growing together. If the person you choose to depend on is constantly striving to learn and improve, you too will push yourself to new levels of achievement, and neither of you will feel like you have settled for someone you eventually outgrow.

I now often ask myself, "Is this really a problem I need to think my way out of? Or is it possible I just need to fix my biochemistry?" I've wasted a lot of time journaling on "problems" when I just needed to eat breakfast sooner, do 10 push-ups, or get an extra hour of sleep. Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

Fat-loss can produce transient elevated triglycerides (as it did with my dad, who lost 70+ pounds of fat), and I had lost substantial bodyfat in the preceding 21 days.

A lot of professions assume that you're going to take eight to ten years just to achieve the minimum level of competence necessary to start to practice. That's been a good grounding force when doing projects, because a lot of things go wrong here and there, but if you just assume that anything worthwhile is going to take five to ten years, they don't feel as severe.

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Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things." –Steve Jobs

A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't? —DON MARQUIS I

How to thrive in an unknowable future? Choose the plan with the most options. The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans.

More than 100K active users OR serial founder(s) with past exits OR more than 10K paying customers. Whenever possible, I want to pour gasoline on the fire, not start the fire.

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Never let a good crisis go to waste. It's the universe challenging you to learn something new and rise to the next level of your potential." Kristen Ulmer

a Man Thinketh (James Allen), Man's Search for Meaning

Last but not least, much of what I recommend will seem impossible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you'll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won't ever go back.

The lesson: Rather than striving to be superhuman, I would aspire to be less "super" and more "human.