Quotes from Timothy Ferriss

La guerra del arte es uno de esos trabajos que te hacen exclamar

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time.

In my specific area of longevity, I hear too much emphasis on how people look (sort of important) and feel (important, to be sure), but very little on the actual task of delaying the onset of chronic disease, which is almost the mathematical equivalent of delaying death and improving quality of life. I'm consistently amazed how little the experts in this space advocate for approaches to delay the onset of cardiovascular disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and accidental deaths.

De este modo, acabamos pasando (tal como lo expresó Thoreau) «la mejor parte de la vida ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

What is the unique mojo that I bring, and how can I try and amplify that?' Amplify your strengths rather than fix your weaknesses.

camino no se acaba nunca y que nadie ha conseguido culminarlo.»

Si te distraes o empiezas a posponerlo, no pierdas los nervios ni caigas en la espiral negativa; retoma con docilidad la tarea número UNO.

For me, it's not how much time you spend doing what you love. It's how little time you spend doing what you hate.

The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

MBA—$30K per year Commit to spending $2,500 per month on testing different "muses" intended to be sources of automated income. See The 4-Hour Workweek or Google "muse examples Ferriss" as a starting point.

ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad discutible en la parte menos valiosa de ella».

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

En el segundo en que empiezas a hacerlo para un público has perdido la partida,

Google Reverse Image Search es una herramienta de una utilidad sorprendente si quieres indicar una fuente

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month," he posited, "the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this—or the boy who had . . . received a Rodgers' penknife from his father? Which would be most likely to cut his fingers?

realidad, basta con una sola regla: el qué haces es más importante que el cómo haces todo lo demás, y hacer algo bien no lo convierte en algo importante.

Just Kids, de Patti Smith:

Most "superheroes" are nothing of the sort. They're weird, neurotic creatures who do big things DESPITE lots of self-defeating habits and self-talk.

If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right.

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts (TW: @rolfpotts, rolfpotts.com). I

The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential . . . in Business and in Life, Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly, and several other books.

Si intentas predecir lo que interesará [al público] y haces contorsiones para adaptarte a esas expectativas

To prevent work for work's sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect ("minimum effective load").

Si sientes continuamente la contraproducente necesidad de tener volumen de trabajo y de hacer muchas cosas, escribe esto en un post-it: