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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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“You think you're fatigued, therefore you can't exercise. In fact, you choose not to move, therefore you feel fatigued.”

Thinking Feels Facts Moving Exercise You Choose

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“I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.”

Thinking Trying Realizing Willpower

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“I think willpower is very valuable.”

Thinking Valuable Willpower

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“Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.”

People Thinking Deserve Time To Think Poisonous Masochistic

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“Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

Thinking Action Remember Form Differences Down And Busy Lazy Laziness Slow Down Being Busy Lazy Thinking

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“Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.”

Thinking Writing Simple Clear Sweet Command Clear Thinking

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“It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.”

Thinking Inspirational Enough Motivational Used Acting Boxes Passive Outside The Box Think Outside The Box

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“Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.”

Thinking Language Can Do Clear Special Deserve Bars Best Things Language Learning Clear Thinking

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“Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.”

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Hard Asks Cases Doubt Gun Crops

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“People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.”

People Thinking Inspirational Giving Chance Prove Smarter

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“Changing the world doesn't require much money. Again, think in terms of empowerment and not charity. How much were Gandhi's teachers paid? How much did it cost to give Dr. Martin Luther King the books that catalyzed his mind and actions?”

Thinking World Giving Mind Book Action Term Teacher Kings Cost Empowerment Paid Charity Changing The World Philanthropy Drs Luther Dr Martin Luther King

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

Ifs Thinking Hard Work Truth Is Harder Priorities Work Harder

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“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.”

Thinking Important Action Form Used Busy Uncomfortable Lazy Laziness Avoiding Guise Being Busy 4 Hour Work Week Lazy Thinking

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“Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

“Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.”

People Thinking Worry

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

Thinking Real Goal Depends Consequence Intention Incentives Wishful Thinking Follow Through Thinking Good

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“People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.”

People Thinking Jobs Lows Stress Rewards

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“At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.”

Thinking Wells Social Views Internet Built Core Drivers License Pipe Social Network Plumbing

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“I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.”

People Thinking Should Hours Views Periods Management Labels Time Management Packs

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Doe Ends Dark Millions Standards Dollars Hanging Out Lots Of Money

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“Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Self Hands Lost Generations Becoming Sufficient Literacy Manuals Our Generation Younger Generation Self Sufficient

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Born: July 20, 1977
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