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Tools of Titans - Tim Freeiss

PART I: Healthy

  • After finish the PART II.

PART II: Wealthy

Chris Sacca

"It may be lucky, but it's not an accident."

  • TW/FB/IG/SC: @SACCA, Site
  • Also see the Naval Ravikant, Kevin Rose, and Mike Maples

Which of those did you assign yourself, and which of those are you doing to please someone else? Your inbox is a to-do list to which anyone in the world can add an action item.

  • Go to as many Higher-Level meetings as possible.
  • When the going gets tough - "Tonight, I will be in my bed."
  • On the advantage of cultivating beginner's mind

"Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place."

  • Empathy isn't just good for life, it's good for business
  • "Good stories always beat good spreadsheets."
  • "Be your unapologetically weird self"

Marc Andreessen

  • Don't fetishize failure

Also see Peter Thiel's thoughts on failure.

  • The "nerds at night" test

The question is: What's the hobby? What's the thing at night or on weekend? Then thing get really interesting.

  • Always forward

Forward, like: We don't stop. We don't slow down. We don't revisit past decisions. We don't second guess.

  • "Strong views, Loosely held"

One of the thing I think you want to look for as both a founder and as an investor is things that are out of consensus, something very much opposed to the conventional wisdom.
People everywhere hate changing their minds, but you need to be able to adapt in light of new information.

  • Two rules to live by

Steve Martin's autobiography - Born Standing up: A comic's life
Be so good they can't ignore you.
Smart people should make things.

  • Don't overestimate the people in pedestals

Steve Jobs once said,"Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call 'life' was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the sane again."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • "I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win."

"I am a big believer that if you have a very clear vision of where you want to go, then the rest of it is much easier."

  • Meditate for a year, get benefits for life?

"Even today, I still benefit from that because I don't merge and bring things together and see everything as one big problem."

Derek Sivers

Anything you want - Derek Sivers
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger - Peter Bevelin
Awaken the Giant within - Tony Robbins

  • "If (more) information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs."
  • "How to thrive in an unknowable future? Choose the plan with the most options. The best plan is the one that lets you change your plans."
  • When you are earlier in your career, the best strategy is to just say "yes" to everything. Every little gig. You just never know what are the lottery tickets.
  • Don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do, you just need foresight and patience.
  • Once you have some success —— if it't not a "Hell, yes!" it's a "NO".
  • "Busy" = Out of control