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The #1 most-clicked link in a recent 5-Bullet Friday: @amydeng_ on how she cracked her mystery fatigue using AI.
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Tim Ferriss
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Tim Ferriss
@tferriss
Author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, early-stage investor (tim.blog/portfolio), Tim Ferriss Show podcast (1B+ downloads), founder of saiseifoundation.org
- Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. If you are
- Dear nearly every hotel in the world -- If need be, please make your rooms $1-10 more expensive and stop charging people for fucking wifi. In this day and age, it's like having a surcharge for toilet paper or water.
- Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the
- 50% of the Internet = people doing nothing saying "You're not doing enough" to people actually doing something.
- 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.
- “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard
- “In the end, winning is sleeping better.” — Jodie Foster
- Chris Sacca's Grand Theory of AI: We are super fucked. cc: @sacca
00:00 - I routinely write “No hurry, no pause” at the top of my notebooks as a daily reminder. You can get 95% of the results you want by calmly putting one foot in front of the other. One former Navy SEAL friend once texted me a principle used in their training: “Slow is smooth.
- Perhaps I’m just getting old, but my definition of luxury has changed over time. Now, it’s not about owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
- For me, this is the most important podcast episode I’ve ever published. In it, I describe the most life-shaping, certainly the most difficult, and certainly the most transformative journey of my 43 years on this planet. I’ve never shared it before.
- “If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.” — Jeff Bezos
