Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

4—If you respond, don't over-apologize.

To do or not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty

There are no radical creative choices that do not carry with them an inherent risk of equally radical failure. You cannot do anything great without aggressively courting your own limits and the limits of your ideas.

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

TO CREATE SOMETHING GREAT (OR EVENTUALLY HUGE), START EXTREMELY SMALL "My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What's the smallest possible footprint I can get away with?

In other words, I was risking an unlikely and temporary 3 or 4 for a probable and permanent 9 or 10,

My confidence came from my vision. . . . I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier.

two primary goals or tasks per day.

Even if you consider yourself a terrible writer, writing can be viewed as a tool. There are huge benefits to writing, even if no one—yourself included—ever reads what you write. In other words, the process matters more than the product.

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg

Looking somebody in the eye . . . is often the antidote for what is ailing us.

Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It's the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It's the quality of, yes, your next email. Forget the long term. Make the next five minutes rock!

RAPID MUSCLE GAIN All chapters in "Fundamentals" All chapters in "Ground Zero" "From Geek to Freak" "Occam's Protocol I and II" Total page count: 97

La analogía que yo uso es, si sales a cenar fuera, te llevará un par de horas.

There is nothing more powerful than failure to reveal to you what you are truly capable of.

the decision to invest in a startup comes after following a process that is heavily weighted towards EQ (emotional quotient). This process starts with exploring the idea emotionally. Should it pass that hurdle, I then do traditional due diligence, using objective data to validate the entrepreneurs' assumptions around the quantifiable aspects of the business.

Distress refers to harmful stimuli that make you weaker, less confident, and less able. Destructive criticism, abusive bosses, and smashing your face on a curb are examples of this. These are things we want to avoid.

En el fondo, el cerebro no es capaz de procesar todo en ese entorno, ni por asomo. Así que a lo máximo que llega es a aplicar esos pequeños filtros. Y

As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble." –Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, leader of the 19th-century transcendentalist movement

Cuando empiezas en algo podemos estar seguros de varias realidades fundamentales: 1) No eres ni de cerca tan bueno ni tan importante como crees; 2) Tienes una actitud que debes reajustar; 3) La mayoría de lo que crees que sabes o la mayoría de lo que aprendiste en los libros o en las aulas está obsoleto o equivocado.

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." —Neil Gaiman, University of the Arts commencement speech

Recuerda que los beneficios sólo te beneficiarán en la medida en que puedas disfrutar de ellos.

Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney.

Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.