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Tim Ferriss is an American author, entrepreneur, and podcast host. He gained fame with his book 'The 4-Hour Workweek,' which introduced innovative methods for achieving work-life balance through efficiency and lifestyle design. Ferriss is known for his interest in personal growth, investing, and healthy lifestyles.

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“Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"”

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“If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.”

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“The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.”

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“Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!”

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“Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.”

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“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. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.”

“But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.”

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“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.”

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“If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it's simply a poor use of resources.”

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“People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.”

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“In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.”

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“Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.”

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“Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation, and semi-permanent Google records. Going on a date? Chances are that your "blind" date has Googled your name. Going to a job interview? Ditto.”

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“If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.”

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“Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.”

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“If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.”

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“If you let pride stop you, you will hate life”

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“If everyone is defining a problem or solving it one way and the results are subpar, this is the time to ask, What if I did the opposite? Don't follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.”

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“If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.”

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“But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.”

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“If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.”

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“If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.”

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“If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.”

“Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”

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“If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.”

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“Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.”

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“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.”

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“If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.”

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“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.”

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“What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.”

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“Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.”

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“I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.”

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“If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.”

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“I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.”

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“If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely.”

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“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.”

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Born: July 20, 1977
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