Quotes About Learning

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought." –Matsuo Bash?

Laird was one of my surfing teachers in my TV series, The Tim Ferriss Experiment,

Great men have almost always shown themselves as ready to obey as they afterwards proved able to command." —Lord Mahon If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow.

Reading (learning) is the ultimate meta-skill and can be traded for anything else. All the real benefits in life come from compound interest. Earn with your mind, not your time. 99% of all effort is wasted. Total honesty at all times. It's almost always possible to be honest and positive. Praise specifically, criticize generally (Warren Buffett).

In reality, most people aren't "bad" at languages. They're bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.

If you learn the auxiliary verbs in your target language, plus the all-important to be, to have, to do, and to go, you can very quickly express any idea.18 Just see the following chart.

Out of more than 4,600 articles on Brain Pickings, what are Maria's starting recommendations? "The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life.

I can't offer a single answer that will fit all people, but, based on the dozens of fulfilled NR I've interviewed, there are two components that are fundamental: continual learning and service.

No one is perfect, and we're all works in progress.

It's worth taking a look at the supposed indignities of "serving" someone else. Because in reality, not only is the apprentice model responsible for some of the greatest art in the history of the world—everyone from Michelangelo to Leonardo da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin has been forced to navigate such a system

The important thing is to learn from each failure and try not to repeat it.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), de Carol Tavris y Elliot Aronson.

los libros que recomienda para cultivar la capacidad de negociar es en realidad un libro infantil que se lee en diez minutos: Sopa de Piedras, de Marcia Brown.

Commit, within financial reason, to action instead of theory. Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of academia.

Timothy Ferriss

What was the "grail"? 25 mg of acarbose (¼ pill) with food. He learned this trick from Peter Attia (page 59), who I introduced him to.

You will think it failed for Reason 1, but it failed for Reasons 1 through 5. And so the next business you start will fail for Reason 2, and then for 3 and so on.

The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower.

Alison Gopnik's Scientist in the Crib

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant, and River Out of Eden by Richard Dawkins.

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Blinkist—an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.

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