Tim Ferriss Quotes

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?

I want to make smart choices.

I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

My best attribute is knowing when not to answer stupid questions.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

The rest is a mere matter of detail, to be settled with judgment, discretion, and caution.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it ... or because it is traditional, …. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conductive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings—that doctrine believe and cling to

A healthy skepticism, regularly exercised…

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

Never take advice, including this.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

What I think is important for us as players is to always stay on our toes and be critical to everything being said.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.