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Why This Book Matters:
With over 300 million downloads, the author’s popular podcast ‘The Tim Ferriss Show’ features interviews with world-class performers in every vertical from sports and business to philanthropy.
This book is the boiled-down, ribbon-wrapped product of thousands of hours spent probing the minds and habits of extraordinary humans to discover what makes them exceptional.
Key Takeaways:
- Avoid a formulaic approach to achieving your goals
- If your long-term objective is to become an elite athlete, solicit advice from other elite athletes, but pick and choose what works best for you.
- Example: Tough Mudder champion Emily Boone found that consuming beet powder before a race helped her regenerate connective tissue in key muscle groups.
- There is more than one path to your best personal health
- It is more effective to experiment and find what works for you rather than follow a regimen designed for somebody else.
- Example: High cholesterol is often assumed to be bad, but can actually help increase lean body mass and muscle definition in quick bursts for some people.
- Working tough jobs can teach you a lot about yourself and the world
- Experiencing a variety of good and bad situations gives you perspective to draw from when formulating long-term financial goals.
- Example: Chris Sacca spent his childhood summers working for both a high-powered relative and in a grueling manual labor position, which influenced how he wanted to shape his professional life.
- Success is better achieved through long-term routines than short-term goals
- Giving yourself a short time to achieve something new often leads to failure, but developing a skill over time often leads to success.
- Example: Dilbert comics creator, Scott Adams, worked on his blog as a hobby for years before he became a successful published writer.
- Reject peer pressure and embrace risk
- The courage needed to go against the crowd also allows you to take the gambles and rare opportunities that ultimately lead to success.
- Example: Olympic snowboarder Shaun White refused to go along with a plan to fix the competition, and ending up winning 100% of the prize money.
- If you’re looking for creative inspiration, work with what you know
- There is no sense reinventing the wheel to force innovation when you have a wealth of inspiration to tap into within your own knowledge and experiences.
- Example: Comic geniuses Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg drew from their own experiences with sex and adolescence to create hilarious and original hit movies.
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