Timothy Ferriss was born on July 20, 1977. Among his many talents, he is an entrepreneur, an investor, an author, a podcaster, and a lifestyle guru. Originally known for his “4-Hour” self-help books about lifestyle optimization, such as the 4-Hour Work Week, the 4-Hour Body, and the 4-Hour Chef, he has since reconsidered this approach.
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Tim Ferriss Quotes:
- Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
- Don’t follow a model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
- Focus on being productive instead of being busy.
- If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
- Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
- To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
- The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
- If you optimize for money too early, you will be minimizing for learning, almost without exception.
- If you do something as simple as 15-minute ice baths three days a week, and you time those baths properly, you can significantly multiply your fat loss.
- As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
- You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.
- To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of vocabulary words, if you really train someone well they can acquire 200 to 300 words a day, which means that in a week they can acquire the vocabulary necessary to speak a language.
- Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage.
- Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.
- One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
- For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.
- The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
- You need to know what your unique strengths are and be willing to delegate.
- If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
- Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
