Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Aprende de los grandes, no de la competencia

One of the best pieces of advice I've received for writing was a mantra: "Two crappy pages per day.

Failure is not necessarily durable. Remember that the things that they fire you for when you are young are the same things that they give lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.

never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human

The best way I can describe the feeling is a Finnish word, "sisu"—the mental strength to continue to try even after you feel you've reached the limits of your abilities. I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

This doesn't mean you ignore planning. I encourage you to make huge, ambitious plans. Just remember that the big-beyond-belief things are accomplished when you deconstruct them into the smallest possible pieces and focus on each "moment of impact," one step at a time.

hay algo que puedas hacer por ella? Y que lo vieras como una manera de beneficiarla a ella y no a ti. El

I can't give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. —HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE,

I don't care if you're my brother—if we go play football, I'm gonna try to crack your head open. It doesn't mean that I don't love you. It doesn't mean that I don't respect you.

Truth is, young creative minds don't need more ideas, they need to take more responsibility with the ideas they've already got.

En esto consiste la estrategia del lienzo, en ayudarte ayudando a los demás. En realizar un esfuerzo coordinado para cambiar tu satisfacción a corto plazo por una recompensa a largo plazo.

That Motel Weekend by James Donner, The Srimad Devi Bhagavatam, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

GST, o «entrenamiento gimnástico de fuerza»).

Leche de magnesia. «Citrato de magnesio, cloruro de magnesio y glicinato de magnesio… Cuando empecé con la dieta cetogénica comencé a tener calambres. Con estos suplementos no tengo ningún calambre… Si tuviera que elegir un solo suplemento de

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR,

Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?" The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014).

Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if research from the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University is any indication, fear of loss is the home-run winner. Experimental groups given $15 and then told the $15 would be rescinded if they lost a subsequent auction routinely overbid the most. Groups offered $15 if they won weren't nearly as "committed.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

NVC has a magical way of instantly defusing potential conflicts with anyone, from a partner to a server to a friend to someone at work. One of its many great premises is that no two people's needs are ever in conflict. It's only the strategies for getting those needs met that are in conflict.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

En otras palabras, descubrir oportunidades para favorecer la creatividad de los demás, localizar salidas y personas para establecer una colaboración y eliminar distracciones que entorpezcan su progreso y concentración.

Be willing to fail or succeed on who you really are. Don't ever try to be anything else. What you are is good enough for whatever it is you're doing.

Marc es autor de la obra Los delitos del futuro (Ariel, 2015).

y en la microoptimización,