Tim Ferriss

“I went from $8 an hour working in libraries to $500 an hour. But it still required me in one place, trading time for money.”

“But the [people] who really implode and fail completely are very often the ones who don't embrace and kind of engineer some type of identity diversification.”

“It just needs to be consistent. Like, a couple times a week — one time a week, even — so that you have some type of way to make progress in an area that is not your primary lane.”

“Identity diversification,”

“professional insurance [and] psychological insurance,”

“I would say at least 70%, probably more than 80%, [of those people] have some type of what I and even they would describe as a meditative practice, whether that's actual meditation or something very similar in terms of [the] benefits,”

“That means internal and external distractions are blocked off,”

“It could be something like swimming, running: something that has a sort of rhythmic nature to it,”

“There’s nothing glamorous or justifiable about it—I just hit my threshold.”

“There’s a lot of struggle right now, whether that’s lowercase ‘s’ struggle or capital ‘S’ Struggle,”

“I am not focused on maximizing productivity because that begs the question: to what aim?”

“I just became a pouty three-year-old, who felt the need to throw a tantrum,”