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014 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Mike Shinoda

Every child is an artist, but the problem is to stay an artist when you grow up - Picasso

Passion was driving their activity, not money or fame

Ninja scrolls movie

Myazaki Hayao movies are great Meditation

013 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Dan Carlin

Hardcore history podcast

Pick a subject, do research

Claiming territory in new market

Find your unique voice during process

Always be yourself

Write as if you are writing to your friends

athlete who passed his prime

Build your product around what you do well

Do not trust to opinions of experts...everything is possible...this was the case with Dan's podcast monetization

Working with niche:
Do not be afraid to do what you are not qualified to do

012 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, James Altucher

Gratitude and abundance are the same things

You are average 5 people around you

Key to entrepreneurship & success is to reduce risks

Improve yourself 1% a week

Sleep at least 8 hours for good health, it is essential for rejuvenating brain & body

Be vaguely correct instead of being precisely wrong

Nasim Taleb

News is the worst form of junk food you inject yourself

Fiction writers are the best writers

While reading, new ideas come to his mind & he starts writing

Learn to say no, time is more valuable than money, saying no gives you time

Time is non-renewable resource

Money magnifies all your qualities

Every tomorrow is defined by what you do today

Middle class is slowly diminishing

Industry gatekeepers are going away: you can publish your book

Big corporations will not hire you anymore, you have to build your own business

Your writing should be entertaining and educational

In your writing show your vulnerability, your pain points and write how you resolved this problem, never give advice on what to do

4hww book's objective is to give people tools for maximizing their per hour output/productivity power of no book summary

In valley of failure we saw our seeds of success

011 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Neil Strauss

Neil’s writing process:
1st draft for yourself
2nd draft for the reader
3rd draft for the haters

Give your writing for proof reading, and present polished work to audience

People learn through metaphors

Not accepting norms will change the world

010 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Sam Harris

Guided mindfulness meditation helps to calm brain and become more conscious
It is so hard to notice that you became lost in thoughts


Self-consciousness is an illusion

009 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Rhonda Patrick

Micronutrients

Vitamin K in dark leafy plants

If you want better cognitive performance move a lot physically

Fasting and less ejaculation lengthens life time of males

Take micronutrients to prevent future illnesses

Focus and get your micronutrients for good health, this is low hanging fruit

In diet, absence of harmful things does not guarantee presence of useful things, therefore develop habit of taking micronutrients

30 grams of protein within 30 minutes of waking up and fistful of greens in every meal is great

008 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Chase Jarvis
Creativity is a new literacy
Hacker mentality - develop it in yourself

Once you are great at your craft, the rest is vision, hack the system

Negotiation is an essential life skill

Being great at your craft is a requirement

Learn to position yourself in marketplace

Be great at telling your story, storytelling is a great influence tool, packaging story is mission critical find ways to hack the system

How do you differentiate yourself in market place? be different, not better...zig when everybody is zagging

There are no more gate keepers like magazines & publishing houses...there is internet

Take ideas from other spheres, industries to be great at your skill

Be different not better

22 laws of marketing book

blue ocean strategy book

business model generation book

share your work, austin cleon book

smartcuts, kevin kelly

polymaths vs hyperspecialists

specialization is for insects -Isaac Azimov, be polymath!!!

Kickstarter

Indiegogo

Youtube

Patreon

It is permissible to be polymath

If you spread yourself too thin vs. if you have predisposition with right tools, you can become good pretty quickly

What did you start saying no to for reaching your goals?

Set limits to number of activities to be able to reach your goals 20 % customer make 80% of your income

007 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

Stephen Dubner

Freakonomics book coauthor

Storytelling is very important skill

1st come up with as many ideas as it is possible 
2nd kill all of them 
3rd take those ideas that did not die and use them

Thinking fast and slow book
Correlation vs. Causation 
Daniel refuted stories, experts may not understand your idea, thus do not rely on their expertise, question their & your own assumptions 

Test assumptions 
Uncover biases 
Become a better thinker
You are yourself in all circumstances 

People try to replicate other successful people by reading their biographies, that is common bias among many people

Freakonomics principles & rules 
Train to think in objective way 
Put away your moral compass at considering all kinds of issue or while thinking 
Be curious like a child

Writings is crystallizing your thoughts, clearing thinking
 
7up series documentary - sociology, decision making, nurture vs. nature 

Clothes you wear influences your thinking & behavior

Levels of the game McPhee book 

006 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast

6 formulas for more output and less overwhelm 

1. Wake up at least 1 hour before you have to be in front of computer screen. 

2. Make a cup of tea and sit down with pen & paper. 

3. Write down 3-5 things that are making you anxious/uncomfortable, the stuff you delay all the time. Most important tasks= most uncomfortable tasks 

4. Ask yourself: 
a) If this is the only thing I accomplish, will I be satisfied with this day? 
b) Will this task ease or knock off other important tasks, is it force multiplier? 

5. Choose only those tasks that have positive response, no more than 3 tasks. 

6. Block out time and work on only ONE of these tasks. Eliminate distractions & focus on task at hand. 

7. If you get distracted or procrastinate, then calmly return to task at hand & finish it. 

If everything is important, then nothing is important. 
What you do is far more important than how you do it. 
Doing something well does not make it important.  
Being busy is a form of laziness & indiscriminate action. 
Do not underestimate yourself, overestimate the world.

005 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Jason Silva


Brain games national geographic documentary

Epiphany addict - realizing something great, new discovery

shots of awe/search in youtube

Festival of dangerous ideas

Learn to get into flow state by Steven Kotler

Discover your talents and passions

Dopamine – how to manipulate it for our advantage

cognitive ecstasy wonder junkie

Set, setting & environment dictate your emotions

Do activities that take you into flow state

I worried about many hardships and most of them did not happen - Mark Twain

Enemy Dostoyevsky double

Memento movie

Matrix movie

Inception movie

Joseph Cambell’s Hero's journey book
https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-5-jason-silva

004 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show Podcast, Ryan Holiday

Philosophy is used for solving practical problems

You do not control the world around you, you only control your response to the world around you

Stoicism - operating system for making better decisions in your life

Real problem is to think that you need money for surviving

Enjoy wealth but do not think that it is key for your survival, practice voluntary poverty

Make riches serve you, not you serving to riches

The problem is not having riches, but riches having you

Tucker Max
Robert Green

Find a mentor whom you can use as a ruler to compare yourself

Jack Canfield
chicken soup for the soul

Fog of war documentary

Wall of Sound documentary

How to be a good writer?
Live interesting life, do something interesting and write about it....write only when you have something to say...unless do not write at all

If you do 1 or 2 things you will feel busy, if you do 4 or 5 things you are not that busy and things help each other

To write one book is hard, but the more you write, the easier it gets


Ryan runs everyday

Top 2 3 books
Sarah Bagwell how to live book
Ulysses s. Grant biography book
The fish that ate the whale book

Pharnam Street Shane parish blog

Maker vs Manager schedule

Paul graham essays

To be rich you need either make lots of money or limit your wants & desires

Keep your identity small, be able to live for small salary, do not develop expensive habits, otherwise when you get poor it will be difficult to live

Learn and practice financial management, save money for difficult days

Human action, technology are creating climate change and super storms

Being greedy when others are fearful, being fearful when others are greedy - Warren Buffet

Sub-reddits are great source of info

Survivorship bias

War of Art S. Pressfield book
Meditations Marcus Aurelius book
Robert Green book

Learn to read people

Gladiator movie

Shown of the dead movie

https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-4-ryan-holiday

003 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast, Kelly Starret and Justin Mager

One should sleep 8+ hours per night

Quantified self-tools

Observing deep sleep

Blood testing, one blood test is a snapshot, and continuous tests give chart and explain our internal processes

Folic acid and methylation

Better information - better decisions

Heart rate variability exercises (HRV)

Listen to yourself, to your body for improving health and life quality

Observe yourself, read people, it is easy to read people by their emotions & movements

If you know yourself, you know others

If you wake up and have no erection...then you have health issue

Sitting and office work is very bad, similar to smoking and killing yourself slowly

Improve your cognitive performance by fixing your diet, posture

To improve your thinking, mental performance, improve your physical performance, it is cheap & effective

Sleep hygiene:
Pitch dark room
It should be a little bit cold

Taking away chair at school will have major impact in health improvement of children, work in office

While working, avoid sitting for long hours

Think critically, use technology to optimize our potential

002 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast, Josh Waitskin

Playing simultaneous chess games is like juggling balls

Constantly be learning

Cognitive biases: sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, false constructs

20/80 analysis

What rules people following that are not required that I can exploit?

Who is good at skill, who shouldn't be?

Questions you ask yourself and your internal dialogue defines your thinking

Meditation is a very powerful tool at self improvement, you start seeing yourself from side to meditate sit cross legged in comfortable position, follow and return to your breath

Journaling is another useful tool for self improvement

Cultivate habit of relaxing and working, turning on and turning off set and practice morning and evening routines

Dao de Jing
Shantaram

Collect & ask questions to yourself, they define your thinking

Ghandi Lao tzu
Buddha

https://ja.player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-2-joshua-waitzkin

001 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Kevin Rose

To make good investments, observe leaders, opinion makers and look for social trends

Be curious about everything

Be in good shape, do workouts

Annual letters of Warren Buffett

Barbell approach to investing - 20 % highly speculative investment & 80 % highly conservative & income guaranteed investment - do not gamble more than you can afford to lose

Phillip Rosedale

When one has no fear, he starts to think big Meditation practice

4hww is about maximizing productivity & per hour output

Food Inc documentary

Tell the truth, make fun of yourself before someone else will make fun of you laugh

Learn to catch a wave and use it to make profit

Practice gardening and farming as hobby when you start a business, focus on your product

https://player.fm/series/the-tim-ferriss-show-1578275/episode-1-kevin-rose