Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger

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Cynicism is a disease that robs people of the gift of life.

Fight for the Future (fightforthefuture.org) is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Internet's transformative power in our lives by creating civic campaigns that are engaging for millions of people.

Notice how often he reframes the question (examines whether the question is the right question) before answering. In several cases, how he dissects wording is as interesting as his answers.

Valora el coste de no actuar,

Hell, you don't even get to be born unless your mother has the courage to have you.

enthusiastically adopted biofeedback HRV training,

Si haces la cama cada mañana, cumples la primera obligación del día. Te confiere un pequeño sentimiento de orgullo y te anima a realizar otra tarea y otra y otra. Al final del día, aquella primera obligación cumplida se habrá convertido en muchas más también cumplidas. Hacer la cama también refuerza la idea de que las cosas pequeñas son importantes en la vida».

There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

Es esencial perderse y cambiar de planes de vez en cuando. Es una fuente de creatividad y perspectiva. El peligro de los esquemas, los ayudantes capaces y la planificación es que puedes acabar viviendo la vida como si estuviera planeada. Y si haces eso, es posible que tu potencial no consiga superar tus expectativas.»

If something offends you, look inward. . . . That's a sign that there's something there.

1) To get huge, good things done, you need to be okay with letting the small, bad things happen. 2) People's IQs seem to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

If you haven't already accomplished at least one important task in the day, don't spend the last business hour returning a DVD to avoid a $5 late charge. Get the important task done and pay the $5 fine.

One study has demonstrated that a 30-minute sauna session twice a week for 3 weeks post-workout increased the time it took for study participants to run until exhaustion by 32% compared to baseline. The 32% increase in running endurance found in this particular study was accompanied by a 7.1% increase in plasma volume and 3.5% increase in red blood cell count.

adopta el hábito más importante de quienes destacan y disfrutan con ello: actuar.

No tendría más sentido guardarse más bien lo contrario? ¿Recordar todas las veces que sí salió bien? ¿Todas las veces que asumimos un riesgo? ¿Todas las veces que logramos alegrarle a alguien el día? Cuando

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." –Niels Bohr Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

After four weeks, we tallied the results. His average monthly fat loss had gone from roughly 5 lbs to 18.75 lbs, a 275% increase. He'd tripled his fat loss by spending less than two minutes consuming a protein shake each morning. Astonishing? Not really. I'd seen the pattern in the data across hundreds of people: simple works, complex fails.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

Soy anciano y he pasado gran cantidad de preocupaciones, pero la mayoría de ellas no ha llegado a materializarse jamás.

Most people exist between the on and off switch. They are unable to turn on and put out high power, and they are unable to turn off completely and enjoy true rest.