Though you can upgrade your brain domestically, traveling and relocating provides unique conditions that make progress much faster. The different surroundings act as a counterpoint and mirror for your...
The aura of exclusivity is really code for bad atmosphere.
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
The more absurd, the more impossible the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instance, a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: If you have a 10-y...
The Conquest of Happiness
That’s the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:
Telling myself the victim story allows me to vent briefly. Once I’m over it, then I realize that if this meeting was so important to me, I should have made it clear to my girlfriend that I couldn’t be...
So, my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don’t be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.
Rissa Kerguelen by F. M. Busby.
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Once we get those muddy, maddening, confusing thoughts [nebulous worries, jitters, and preoccupations] on the page, we face our day with clearer eyes.
Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.
Note from Tim Ferriss: I asked Tim to share a fun piece of related background. Here it is. In early 2015, Elon reached out to schedule a call. He said he had read some Wait But Why posts and was wonde...
No aceptes las normas de tu tiempo
Named must your fear be before banish it you can. —YODA, from Star Wars:
Me di cuenta de que distanciarse de la situación, para poder ver lo que está pasando, es crucial.
Macro
Los trabajos interesantes son los que creas tú.
Live the questions so that, one day, you will live yourself into the answers. . . .
Life’s Little Instruction Book