Tools of Titans: Tim Ferris Book Review: Tools and Tips for Growth
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Thirty minutes of stream of consciousness journaling
The superheroes you have in mind have maximized 1 or 2 strengths
Christopher Sommer
When in doubt work on the deficiencies you’re most embarrassed by
Diet and exercise: eat and train
Dominic D’Agostino
Why consider fasting?: :therapeutic “purge fast” (If you don’t have cancer and you do a therapeutic fast 1 to 3 times per year, you could purge any precancerous cells that may be living in your body
Dom suggests a 5 day fast 2 to 3 times a year
I now aim for a 3 day fast once per month and a 5-7 fast once per quarter
Jason Nemer
Play! Play more. I feel like people are so serious, and it doesn’t take much for people to drop back into the wisdom of a childlike playfulness.
Tell people what you want, not want you don’t want, and keep it simple.
Laird Hamilton, Gabby Reece& Brian Mackenzie
More humility
Exercise compassion every day
James Fadiman
Jim describes this as “the feeling or the awareness that you are connected not only to other people, but to other things and living systems and to the air you breathe.
Now, that’s all easy to say intellectually and even poetically. But when you actually experience that you’re part of this larger system, one of the things that you become aware of is that you ego – your personal identity – is not that big part of you. (106-107)
Paul Levesque
What am I continuing to do myself that I’m not good at? Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it. (131)
Jane McGonigal
Any useful statement about the future should at first seem ridiculous by Jim Dator. Also, when it comes to the future, it’s far more important to be Imaginate than to be right” by Alvin Toffler (134)
Adam Gazaley
What do you think about that really gets you excited? Because I’m more interested in what drives someone and motivates them and makes them want to get out of bed in the morning …(136)
Carl Sagan’s documentary Cosmos series
“I want to do fundamental breakthroughs, if possible. If you have that mindset, if that’s how you challenge yourself, that that’s what you want to do with your life, with you small amount of time that you have here to make a difference, then the only way to do it is to do the type of research that other people would think of as risky or even foolhardy. That’s just part of the game.
5 Morning Rituals That Help me Win the Day
Make your Bed
Meditate (10 to 20 minutes)
Do 5 to 10 Reps of Something (<1 minute)
Prepare “Titanium Tea”
Morning Pages or 5 Minute Journal (5 t o10 minutes)
I am grateful for…
3 Amazing Things Happened Today…
Mind Training 101
Chris Sacca
Empathy isn’t just good for life. It’s good for business.
Good stories always beat good spreadsheets.
Derek Sivers
When you think of the word, successful, who’s the third person that comes to mind? Why are they actually more successful than the first person that came to mind?
Tony Robbins
I didn’t survive, I prepared
If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.
The reason you’re suffering is you’re focused on yourself.
gratitude fill my soul
Casey Neistat
The youtube inflection point: vlog
What my morning Journal looks like
Peter Thiel
Future of education: favor of learning. What is it that we’re learning? Why are you learning it?
Tell me something that’s true that very few people agree with you on
Zero to One: The Monopoly question: big share of a small market?
The Secret Question: Have you identified a unique opportunity that others don’t see?
The Distribution Question: Do you have a way to not just create but deliver your product?
James Altucher
If you can’t generate 10 ideas, generate 20
Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle
Sample Lists for James’s Daily 10 Practice
10 ideas I can make new
10 ridiculous things I would invent
10 books I can write
10 business ideas for Google/Amazon/Twitter/etc.
10 people I can send ideas to
10 podcast ideas or videos I can shoot
10 industries where I can remove the middleman
10 things I disagree with that everyone else assumes is religion
10 ways to take old posts of mine and make books out of them
10 people I want to be friends with
10 things I learned yesterday
10 things I can do differently today
10 ways I can save time
10 things I learned from X
10 things I’m interested in getting better at
10 things I was interested in as a kid that might be fun to explore now
10 ways I might try to solve a problem I have
Chase Jarvis
Amplify your strengths rather than fix your weaknesses
Different, not just better
Alex Blumberg
Some of Alex’s tools:
Audio-Technica T8035 shotgun microphone
TASCAM DR-100mkII recorder
Sony MDR-7506 headphones
XLR cable (s)
Ed Catmull
But in fact, what artists do is they learn to see
Justin Boreta
Do you live your life by any quotes? “Be the silence that listens” Tara Brach
Scott Belsky
How has “failure” set you up for later success?
Sometime you need to stop doing things you love in order to nurture the one thing that matter most.
Truth is, your environment matters.
Am I having a breakdown or a breakthrough?
The struggle ends when the gratitude begins (Neale Donald Walsch)
What you seek is seeking you (Rumi)
Jocko Willink
If you want to be tougher, be tougher
If you want to be tougher mentally, it is simple, Be tougher. Don’t meditate on it.
Take extreme ownership of your world
A good reason to be an early riser (by 4:45)
Tea
What makes a good commander? The immediate answer that comes to mind is humility. Because you’ve got to be humble, and you’ve got to be coachable… ability to listen, open their mind, and see that maybe there’s a better way to do things
… and couldn’t even do an honest self-assessment because they thought they already knew everything. Stay humble, or get humbled.
Sebastian Junger
The point of journalism is the truth
Shay Carl
Daily videos or “vlogging” (video + blogging”)
Memento mori (reminders of death): shortness of life and inevitability of death
Sam Harris
The value of intensive meditation retreats
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do
Whitney Cummings
Perfectionism leads to procrastination which leads to paralysis
And in order for art to imitate life, you have to have a life
And I think ultimately, sometimes when we judge other people, it’s just a way to not look at ourselves; a way to feel superior or sanctimonious or whatever. My trauma therapist said every time you meet someone, just in your head say, “I love you” before you have a conversation with them, and that conversation is going to go a lot better
Alain de Botton
Appreciate what’s good about this moment. Don’t always think that you’re on a permanent journey. Stop and enjoy the view
And I’ve always understood that the best investment of my limited time on earth is to spend it with people I love.
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