Channel
Tim Ferriss
Date
May 9, 2023 5:09 PM
Done?
Guest
Derek Sivers
Platform
Spotify
[2023]
Topics
Inspirational
★☆★
★★★★★
- Book Recommendations:
- A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony
- Food Rules
- Plan for success. Prepare for failure.
- Your desires would diminish drastically if you didn’t need to impress anyone.
- The things you desire really do little other than fuel further desires and teach you what greed is.
- Envy comes from proximity, not disproportion.
- Your cognitions, perceptions, attitudes and conceptions of yourself are all tied in with those to whom you liken or contrast yourself.
- Ideas don’t make you rich. Great execution of ideas does.
- A rule of capitalism: whoever takes the most financial risk gets the rewards.
- For maximum options, don’t plan at all.
- Since you have no idea how the situation or your mood may change in the future, wait until the last moment to make each decision.
- Mindwise
- Your brain’s greatest skill is its ability to think about the minds of others in order to understand them better.
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
- Knowledge is a curse because once you have it, you can’t imagine what it’s like not to possess it.
- When you go on a trip, much of your experience involves doing the same thing for long stretches of time - flying, driving, sleeping, standing, waiting, walking - but the story you tell your friends afterward is all about the different things you experienced.
- You define yourself by the attributes that make you different.
- The differences among men and women are far larger than the differences between men and women.