Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

Yo procuro aprender del pasado sin dejarme inspirar por él. La gran pregunta que me hago siempre es, "¿Qué querían hacer y por qué funcionó?".

Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance,

When you're earlier in your career, I think the best strategy is to just say 'yes' to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.

But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.

Buffett told him, "Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen.

lo peor que puede pasar es que acabe llevando una mochila y un saco de dormir

You can do so much in ten minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into ten-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity." –Ingvar Kamprad

Here's why I think it seems to work, and there are several possibilities.

Me gusta analizar lo que Seth no hace tanto como lo que sí hace. Seth no tiene comentarios en su blog, no presta atención a las analíticas y no usa Twitter ni Facebook

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

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.

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.

something like, "You're totally right. I never thought about that.

Listening is about being present, not just being quiet.

You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.

Morgan's latest project is a tech startup called Clect (clect.com), which is a community and one-stop marketplace where people can browse, sell, and buy collectibles of any type imaginable (Star Wars, Smurfs, comics, a Millennium Falcon made from motorcycle parts, etc.).

Malgastamos la vida con detalles… Simplifica, simplifica… Un hombre es rico en proporción a la cantidad de cosas de las que puede prescindir.

Am I being productive or just active? Charney captured the essence of this with less-abstract wording: Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important? He eliminated all of the activities he used as crutches and began to focus on demonstrating results instead of showing dedication. Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise. Be ruthless and cut the fat.

Elogio de la ociosidad y otros ensayos (Diario Público, 2010), de Bertrand Russell.

Regla nº 1: Evita los carbohidratos «blancos» (o todo lo que pueda ser blanco). Regla nº 2: Repite las mismas pocas comidas una y otra vez. Regla nº 3: No bebas calorías. Regla nº 4: No comas fruta. Regla nº 5: Tómate un día libre por semana y enloquece.

Cómo se mide el éxito en última instancia? Para mí no consiste en medir el mucho tiempo que dedicas a hacer lo que te gusta. Sino en medir el poco tiempo que pasas haciendo lo que odias. Y esta mujer se pasaba todo el día y todos los días haciendo lo que más le gustaba.»

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that "The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Si la dieta cetogénica te parece para lunáticos, el empleo de cetonas exógenas sólo requiere mezclar una cucharada de polvo con agua y beber.

The key in a restaurant, and the key in any kind of high-pressure situation, I think, is that 75% of success is staying calm and not losing your nerve. The rest you figure out, but once you lose your calm, everything else starts falling apart fast.