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Timothy Ferriss

I tend to split my activities into fun, income and legacy. The number of things in that finance bucket is pretty few and far between and doesn’t consume much time at all.

Time, Fun, Legacy

Timothy Ferriss

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.

Home, Eyes, School

Timothy Ferriss

When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance of new stimuli combined with a lack of guidance forced me to develop my own approaches to learning and juggling.

Time, Culture, Me

Timothy Ferriss

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.

Skills, Hours, Bigger

Timothy Ferriss

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I’m on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I’m off, I don’t want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That’s how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

Day, Balance, End

Timothy Ferriss

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

goals, incentives

Timothy Ferriss

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

lifestyle, new-rich, personal-development

Timothy Ferriss

People don’t want to be millionaires — they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

lifestyle, millionaire, money, rich, wealth

Timothy Ferriss

Each delegated task must be both time-consuming and well-defined. If you’re running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn’t improve the order of the universe.

delegation, time-management

Timothy Ferriss

Simple works, complex fails.

complexity, decisions, life, simplicity, success

Timothy Ferriss

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.

learning, patience, self-talk

Timothy Ferriss

What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn’t matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn’t matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.

learning, material, selection