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“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.” -, all! Tim
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“You must acknowledge deep in your heart of hearts that people are supposed to fuck. It is our main purpose in life, and all those other activities—playing the trumpet, vacuuming carpets, reading mystery novels, eating chocolate mousse—are just ways of passing the time until you can fuck again.” — , all! Tim
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“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer.” - , all! Tim
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“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.” -, all! Tim
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“The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth is usually another profound truth.” - Tim
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“Delusion is a divine curse that makes someone envious, conceited, malicious, so that he doesn't know the evil he does will strike him back. If he could see his nothingness and his deadly, festering wound, pain would arise from looking within, and that pain would save him.” - Tim P.S. -- Here’s a bonus question I’ve been asking myself as a practice: “How can I even more enjoy and appreciate this as a gift right now?” [Explanation: “This” could be any problem, hardship, person, or otherwise that would historically cause me stress.]
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“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.” -, all! Much love to you and yours... Tim P.S. -- It’s hard to believe, but it’s been more than 10 years since The 4-Hour Workweekwas published. And it amazes me that the book is still the most highlighted book across all of Amazon in 2017. This new post highlights six different people who built a million dollar business after reading The 4-Hour Workweek. I hope the post inspires you to accomplish more than you thought possible.
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“All our previous positions are now exposed as absurd. But people don’t draw the obvious conclusion: it must also mean then that our present situation is absurd.” - , all! Much love to you and yours... Tim P.S. -- I am often asked about how I approach New Year’s resolutions. The truth is that I don’t make them anymore, even though I did for decades. Why the change? First, I realized that without accountability to someone else, resolutions rarely get accomplished. This led me to experiment with working with a close friend to mutually assign each other resolutions
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“Of course, sometimes it’s quite difficult to know if you’re hallucinating. You might hallucinate a silver pen on your desk right now and never suspect it’s not real—because its presence is plausible. It’s easy to spot a hallucination only when it’s bizarre. For all we know, we hallucinate all the time.” -
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“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.” -
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“Having devoted the first half of my life to the dark, I feel obliged to revere any pinpoint of light now.” -
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“Every society honors its live conformists and dead troublemakers.” -
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“If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” -
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“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” -
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"When one thought ends, right before the next thought begins, there is a tiny gap called 'now.' Over time we learn to expand that gap." –
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“If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.” -
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” -
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"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." -
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“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.” -
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"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers which can't be questioned." —
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“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?’” ―
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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.” ―
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"I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels like you're writing a novel on my skin.” — “Braille”
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"Never risk what you have and need for what you don't have and don't need." —
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“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.” -
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“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.” ―
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“Be the silence that listens.” — (@tarabrach)
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“I happen to be in a very tough business where there are no alibis. It is good or it is bad and the thousand reasons that interfere with a book being as good as possible are no excuses if it is not…Taking refuge in domestic successes, being good to your broke friends, etc. is merely a form of quitting.” -
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I’m going to cheat this week and give you two closely related quotes from the same person. Bolding is mine: “Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented alike by what is past and what is to come. A number of our blessings do us harm, for memory brings back the agony of fear while foresight brings it on prematurely. No one confines his unhappiness to the present.” … “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary” – Seneca
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“We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” -, investing partner of Warren Buffett
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“One whose mind is one with the sky-void steps into a spring mist and thinks to herself she might in fact step out of this world.” - (1118-1190) [Tim: This one might make more sense after the James Fadiman chapter in Tools of Titans]
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“Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you’re hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you… Fear is a friend of exceptional people.” – Cus D’Amato American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres, all of which became members of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
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Nowhere is there place To stop and live, so only Everywhere will do: Each and every grass-made hut soon leaves Its place within this withering world. - Saigyo (1118-1190)
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“When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don’t then make a show of it, or protest, or view him with suspicion or as plotting against you. And yet you keep an eye on him, not as an enemy or with suspicion, but with a healthy avoidance…. You should act this way with all things in life. We should give a pass to many things with our fellow trainees. For, as I’ve said, it’s possible to avoid without suspicion or hate.” — , Meditations, 6.20 (Found in The Daily Stoic)
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“You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.” -, Founder of the furniture brand IKEA
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“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” -, The Art of War
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” ―
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"The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles." -
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"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." -
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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ―
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“Companies go out of business when they make the wrong decisions or, just as important, make too many decisions. The latter creates complexity.” -
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“A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear…. If the employees come first, then they’re happy.” – , cofounder of Southwest Airlines
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“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” – , University of Southern California professor of business administration; adviser to Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy
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“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” ―
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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” –
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“I not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow.” – , we need all the help we can get. The above quote reminded me of this: “Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up ‘cause they’re looking for ideas.” - Paula Poundstone
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“Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." -
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“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” – , 2004 Nobel Prize winner in physics
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“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” – , The Prince
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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” –
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“Genius is only a superior power of seeing.” – , famed art and social critic
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“What gets measured gets managed.” – , management theorist, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
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“Many a false step was made by standing still.” –