Normalmente nunca quieres formar parte de una tendencia popular. No quieres ser la cuarta empresa que vende comida para mascotas por internet a finales de la década de 1990.
Newt Gingrich is one of the most successful political leaders of our time. Yes, we disagreed with virtually everything he did, but this is a book about strategy, not ideology. And we’ve got to give Ne...
Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
Make your peace with the fact that saying ‘no’ often requires trading popularity for respect. —Greg McKeown, Essentialism
MBA—$30K per year Commit to spending $2,500 per month on testing different muses intended to be sources of automated income. See The 4-Hour Workweek or Google muse examples Ferriss as a starting point...
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. It’s a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the numbe...
Let it go. I do mean to take life very seriously, but I need to take things like playfulness and purposelessness very seriously. . . . This is not meant to be light, but I think I would have somehow e...
Less Is Not LazinessDoing less meaningless work, so that you can focus on things of greater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward p...
Last, play with foodpairing.be, which is based on the Volatile Compounds in Food (VCF) database. The objective is to start thinking about how to mix and match foods based on similar characteristics.
Las reglas de sentido común del «mundo real» son una frágil colección de ilusiones reforzadas por la sociedad.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
Language is infinitely expansive (much like cooking) and therefore horribly overwhelming if unfiltered.
La cuestión del monopolio: ¿Empiezas con una parte grande de un mercado pequeño? La cuestión del secreto: ¿Has identificado una oportunidad única que los demás no ven? La cuestión de la distribución:...
I’m up and getting after it by 4:45. I like to have that psychological win over the enemy. For me, when I wake up in the morning—and I don’t know why—I’m thinking about the enemy and what they’re doin...
I’m not the strongest. I’m not the fastest. But I’m really good at suffering.
I’m not sure how much the formal study of philosophy matters, but I think the fundamental philosophical question is one that’s important for all of us, and it’s always this question of ‘What do people...
It’s when I’m fuzzy about where I’m headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly. And I’ve been burned enough times by FOMO-based and ego-based decision-making to know that I’ll always regret...
It Should Take No More Than 3 to 4 Weeks to Manufacture. This is critically important for keeping costs low and adapting to sales demand without stockpiling product in advance. I will not pursue any p...
Intelligence is like following a GPS route right into a body of water until you drown. Wisdom looks at the route but, when it takes a turn into the ocean, decides not to follow it, then finds a new, b...
Information products are low-cost, fast to manufacture, and time-consuming for competitors to duplicate.