Tim Ferriss Quotes

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

When we are fully conscious and aware, we actually know when we are about to overreact. When we are mindful, we have the mental space and are aware of when our moods change. When we are mindful, we are aware of when our mental models are being challenged and when expectation does not meet with reality, which can trigger an emotional response.

Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.

How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.

I listen to my emotions. That's why I react once I get provoked sometimes.

Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

When caught in conflict and blame - make a U-turn and shift your attention from blaming thoughts to what's going on emotionally in your body.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

I don't think I get angry.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom.

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

I've met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.

I am reactive.