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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.