Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Am I being productive or just active?

La productividad es para los robots. Si los humanos van a ser realmente buenos en algo será haciendo preguntas, siendo creativos y teniendo experiencias.»

Los libros no están para mostrar lo inteligente y cultivado que eres.

Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want. This is true of possessions and even time. Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.

while the world is a gold mine, you need to go digging in other people's heads to unearth riches.

HeartMath Inner Balance biofeedback monitor. It detects your heart's minutest rhythms and sends a graph to your smartphone, facilitating HRV training.

Estresado es el término que usa el triunfador cuando quiere decir miedo.» «Los perdedores reaccionan, los líderes se anticipan.» «La maestría no sale de una infografía. Lo que sabes no vale una mierda. ¿Qué es lo que haces de forma sistemática?»

El ayuno vuelve las células cancerosas más sensibles a la quimioterapia, como ya se dijo, pero también ayuda a las células normales a soportar la toxicidad.

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

La pelea termina cuando empieza la gratitud.

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capacidad de hacer una sola cosa cada vez es un superpoder.

Fifty Shades of Chicken That's the title of Shaun's "most-gifted" book. Totally serious. I assumed it would be a complete joke, but it has nearly 700 reviews on Amazon and a 4.8-star average.

Los libros están para mostrar tu corazón, para mostrar tu alma, y para decirle a cada uno de tus seguidores, de tus lectores: No estás solo.»

empiezas a hacer esto consigues redefinirte como persona capaz de influir en el mundo.

If you don't have cancer and you do a therapeutic fast 1 to 3 times per year, you could purge any precancerous cells that may be living in your body.

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, the most-gifted book of several people in this book, as well as in a wonderful short documentary called The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

No hay camino hacia la felicidad, la felicidad es el camino.

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

Generally, I'll listen to an audiobook like The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman during the heat, then cool off for 5 to 10 minutes using an ice bath (I put 40 pounds of ice in a large bath to get it to roughly 45°F; more details on page 43) and/or by drinking ice water. I'll repeat this cycle 2 to 4 times.

The moral of the story is, whenever possible, do print/text interviews via email. A paper trail will give you evidence and recourse if people misbehave.

Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow encouraged myself to let go a little bit more and hang in there and not pretend to know where this is all going. You don't need to know where it's all going.

There is no universal path to success.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. . . . Everyone is fighting a battle [and has fought battles] you know nothing about.