“The question would be: ‘What mastery can you offer?’ So have a friend of yours ask that question of you five times, and you’ll be sort of surprised at, by the fifth time you g [...]
“You are not alone. And just because you feel like shit doesn’t mean you are shit.”
— Jerry Colonna
Jerry Colonna (@jerrycolonna) is the CEO and cofounder of Reboot.io, an executi [...]
Hello, my lovelies! This is an important announcement.
From June – Dec, 2019, I’m removing ads and sponsors from the podcast for a six-month test. The podcast will continue to be 100% free for eve [...]
“There is no elevator to success; you have to take the stairs.”
— Julie Rice
Julie Rice (@julierice_) is an entrepreneur best known for co-founding the fitness phenomenon SoulCycle. Juli [...]
“Most of us should spend less time on most decisions and we should spend a lot more time on a few key decisions.”
— Ramit Sethi
Ramit Sethi, (@ramit) author of the New York Times bestse [...]
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“A true creator knows that you follow the thing to where it’s going, not to where you think it ought to go.”
— Adam Savage
Adam Savage (TW: @donttrythis IG: [...]
“I think a big part of knowing that you’re right is working as hard as you can to prove that you’re wrong. And if you can’t, well, there’s only one option left, which is: [...]
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“I’m just so fundamentally optimistic, and I barrel forth in life with this attitude that everything is going to be absolutely fine and go my way.”
— Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer ( [...]
“You can systematize innovation even if you can’t completely predict it.”
— Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) is Technical Advisor and Board Member to Alphabet Inc., where [...]
“The biggest problem we run into is going, ‘This is who I am, this is what I’m like, this is how I function’ while failing to notice that you don’t do that anymore.” [...]
Note from the editor: The following is a guest post by Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99), a journalist who’s written about technology and science for two decades. Clive is a longtime contributing w [...]
“An overactive ego is a tyrant.” – Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan (@michaelpollan) is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivor [...]
“All these things you’re sure are true — what if they weren’t?”
— Safi Bahcall
Safi Bahcall (@SafiBahcall) is the author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that W [...]
Welcome to a special episode called “Tea Time with Tim,” for which I solicited phone numbers and then called a handful of you to field any questions you might have.
Among other topics, we [...]
“I felt like I went through 15 years of psychological therapy in one night.”
— Actual patient featured in “Trip of Compassion”
This post is about the most compelling movie I’ve seen [...]
Build your company sales!
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“Everyone’s genius is right next to their dysfunction.” — Graham Duncan
Graham Duncan (@GrahamDuncanNYC) is the co-founder of East Rock Capital, a multi- [...]
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“I’m not really a business author; I just happen to have used companies as the method to study human systems because there’s great data.” — Jim Collins
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“I really am a big believer in people’s creativity flourishing when they come at things from a different direction and see things in a different way.” — [...]
“Feedback is a gift.” — Tobi Lütke
Tobi Lütke (@tobi) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Shopify. In 2004, Tobi began building software to launch an online snowboard store c [...]
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“In life — from the simplest thing to the biggest thing — I want to be proud of what it is and stake my claim: ‘That’s mine and that’s how [...]
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“So often, when you see someone who’s really good at almost anything, it’s because they actually started out exactly the opposite — and then they cared so mu [...]
“You spend the first 20 years of being rich accumulating all of this stuff. And then you’ll spend the next 20 years trying to get out of one thing after another to simplify your life.̶ [...]
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What do roughly 1.5 million subscribers to my newsletter care about most? Or put another way, if they voted with clicks, what most caught their attention in 2018?
The 25 items b [...]
“If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” — Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown (@GregoryMcKeown) is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined [...]
I’m often asked about how I approach New Year’s resolutions. The truth is that I no longer approach them at all, even though I did for decades. Why the change? I have found “past year reviews” [...]
“I think the role of the entrepreneur in the world is to find ways to do things better or more efficiently and then try to do that as many times over with the help of other people.” — Sa [...]
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“If people around you don’t think what you’re doing is a bit strange, maybe it’s not strange enough.” — Patrick Collison
Patrick C [...]
“Unhappiness is at the root of more pain, I would suspect, than any ailment that falls in the ‘physical’ body. And to think that we have compounds that could play such an important r [...]
“And then I wake up at 7:00 a.m., and I roll over and look at my phone. And I have a notification from Shopify saying that I made my first sale for $149. And I let out this huge, orgasmic noise of r [...]
“I’ve gotten away with saying the most outrageous things because I’m not angry. And people listen, and we can have actual dialog.” — Dr. Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil, M.D. (@DrWeil) is [...]
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“I try to put myself in a mental state of, ‘How do I learn from that defeat? How do I learn from that loss?'” — LeBron James
“Recovery never stops. [...]
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“Slow down. Do it again.” — Dave Elitch
Dave Elitch (IG: @daveelitch) first garnered attention with his band Daughters of Mara’s debut album I am Destroyer in 2 [...]
Stan Grof (right) with the legendary Albert Hofmann (left), the first person to synthesize LSD.
“I realized people were not having LSD experiences; they were having experiences of themselves. Bu [...]
Note from the editor: This post accompanies the recent episodes of The Tim Ferriss Show and the Tribe of Mentors podcasts featuring Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron. It explores James’s dail [...]
“Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.” — James Cameron
James Cameron (@jimcameron) is a filmmaker and deep sea explorer. He is writer, director and produc [...]
Doug McMillon (IG: @dougmcmillon) is president and chief executive officer of Walmart, a company that, if it were a country, would be the 25th largest economy in the world. Walmart serves 265 million [...]
Funnels are the best way to sell
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“Paradoxically but wonderfully, focusing on someone else’s happiness will actually make you happier.” — A.J. Jacobs
A.J. Jacobs (@ajjacobs) takes over the sh [...]
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“Price is a story.” — Seth Godin
Seth Godin (@thisissethsblog, seths.blog) is the author of 18 bestselling books that have been translated into more than 35 language [...]
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“The goal of meditation is to uncover a form of wellbeing that is inherent to the nature of our minds.” — Sam Harris
Sam Harris (@SamHarrisOrg) received a deg [...]
“I just look at some things and go, “Why is that? Why does it work that way?” Oftentimes, the people most entrenched in a system have no idea why.”
— Nick Kokonas
Nick Kokonas (IG: @ [...]
“The war against nature is a war against your own biology.”
— Paul Stamets
Paul Stamets (@PaulStamets) is an intellectual and industry leader in the habitat, medicinal use, and production of fun [...]
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