Tim Ferriss

I'm a kind person.

I'm generous.

I like helping people.

Okay?

That can be true, but that can also be a justification for saying yes to way too many things and being a martyr.

All right?

If your answer is, well, must be nice for you.

I'm not successful enough yet.

Okay.

We can start to tease that apart.

But I know people who have hundreds of millions of dollars who still say that.

So part of the reason this book is taking so long, and it comes down to when we're talking about like the drive and predicting the bumps in the road and using the engine to the best of your capacity, just having an index card, which is kind of what the internet

largely does not everyone but they're like here are the three tricks to mastering crypto tomorrow before the crash you know whatever and i mean look i'm interested in a lot of things not to malign crypto like i've been interested in a long time but the the point is if if your goal is like durable behavioral change which also comes back to the psychedelics right like you need frameworks

and you need to be able to put your beliefs, which are like your underpinning philosophical guide rails, under some degree of scrutiny.

And if you don't update those, right?

Like, if your story, for instance, in the realm of physical fitness is, well, I'm good at my job, I'm a good father, but like, you know, my whole family has big bones and I'm just... It's just the way it is, right?

You accept that partial completeness.

right and you're like really type a and like problem fixing oriented in a positive way in other areas of your life but there's this one that you don't touch because that's just the way things are if you don't fix that no number of books on strength training no number of gym memberships is going to fix it so a lot of it is unpacking

this also like everything kind of ties together right the fear setting right it's like okay you don't want to say no why okay you're worried that person's going to talk you to somebody you care about okay you're worried they won't send you opportunities anymore right they sent you one but it's really a bad fit

doesn't align with your priorities.