The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

by Timothy Ferriss

To have more quality and less clutter.

Don’t follow a model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.

“If only I had more money” is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment—now and not later.

After two weeks of adjusting to the breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Mush à la Ghana), he had no desire to escape. The most basic of foods and good friends proved to be the only real necessities, and what would seem like a disaster from the outside was the most life-affirming epiphany he’d ever experienced: The worst really wasn’t that bad.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Divided attention will result in more frequent interruptions, lapses in concentration, poorer net results, and less gratification.

Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Replace the newspaper at breakfast with speaking to your spouse, bonding with your children, or learning the principles in this book.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Don’t be melodramatic when there is no need—few things are fatal, particularly for smart people.

There are two types of mistakes: mistakes of ambition and mistakes of sloth.

The effect is not cumulative, and no number of two-week (also called “too weak”)70 sightseeing trips can replace one good walkabout.71

Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination.

So be bold and don’t worry about what people think. They don’t do it that often anyway.

It’s usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.

Opportunities abound in bad times as well as good times. In fact, the opportunities are often greater when the conventional wisdom is that everything is going into the toilet.

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should.