Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill. Or get a degree in business on top of your engineering degree, law degree, medical degree, science degree, or whatever. Suddenly you're in charge, or maybe you're starting your own company using your combined knowledge.

For every stage in life, you discover books that speak to you, that help you change, to become the version of yourself that you need to be. It's so very difficult to choose one book.

The more you run from your fears, the bigger they get, but the more you go into them, the more they tend to vanish like a mirage.

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

But if you don't cultivate 'turning it on' as a way of life in the little moments—and there are hundreds of times more little moments than big—then there's no chance in the big moments. . . . I believe that when you're not cultivating quality, you're essentially cultivating sloppiness.

Let's come up with as many ideas as possible, and then put them under scrutiny, and basically try to kill them off, and if they were unkillable, then we'd keep going with them.

Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. To

Lazy: A Manifesto

I believe that music and people don't mix; that music should be appreciated alone without seeing or knowing who the musicians are and without other people around. Just listening to music for its own sake, not listening to the people around you and not filtered through what you know about the musician's personal life.

También es importante sopesar el coste atroz de no actuar. Si no persigues lo que te entusiasma, ¿dónde

If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

It sounds like generic advice, but you'd be hard-pressed to find any successful person who didn't have about three skills in the top 25%.

A little part of me dies every time someone tells me they've taken a job as a "steppingstone" to something else, when they clearly aren't invested in it. You have one life to live. Time is valuable. If you're using steppingstones, you're also likely relying on someone else's path or definition of success. Make your own.

El capitalismo premia lo que es raro y a la vez valioso.

banging on a keyboard, and coming home to a drunken existence on the weekends?

Throw it all up on the wall and see what sticks.

Usa BitLocker con Windows o FileVault con OS X.

Even when everything is going terribly, and I have no reason to be confident, I just decide to be.

The Checklist Manifesto.

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life? Mindfulness meditation, which I started doing regularly about five years ago, has changed my life more than any other behavior. I feel like it rewired my brain (probably because it did). At first, I felt the effects very powerfully. After a few years, it feels less dramatic but necessary. If I go more than a couple days without sitting, I feel off. Wish I had started many years before.

But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].

Es más bien una convicción: la vida siempre sucede para nosotros, no a nosotros. De ti depende que encuentres sus ventajas. Si lo haces, la vida es fabulosa.»

In any field, there's usually some kind of mythological reward you're supposed to receive if everybody considers you a success. But in my experience, there's a lot more honest joy to be had from taking pleasure in the work itself.