Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker.
The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.
I do my best writing between 10 p. m. and 5 a. m. . Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p. m. and 8 a. m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p. m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a. m.
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.
Age doesn't matter. An open mind does.
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
I've seen the promised land, and there is good news. You can have it all.
Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend. "
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
Work is an activity that is financially-driven or one that you'd like to do less of.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.