Tim Ferris' Tools of Titans
Reading Tim Ferris’ Tools of Titans. Tim wrote this book as a way to summarize the wisdom learned from the many people he has interviewed on his podcasts. I first met Tim at an EO Nebraska event right after he wrote The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. He attended the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder event right after and hacked his way into asking Warren Buffett a question.
I collect quotes as a way to trigger my thoughts, and often make me dig back into a book. The quotes I like so far are:
“‘Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost corrections themselves.’—Peter Lynch”
“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 be the same again.”—Steve Jobs
“In negotiation, he who cares the least wins.”—Various
“To do original work: It’s not necessary to know something nobody else knows. It is necessary to believe something few other people believe.”
By the way, an immediate action from his book was to change the theme for this blog to P2 — a theme designed by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg to encourage more blogging.
It is also worth reading Testing The “Impossible”: 17 Questions That Changed My Life on Tim’s blog.
If you want to check out some of Tim’s readers favorite quotes, check out this post on Facebook: