Episode #246
Protect a simple, consistent morning boot-up routine to anchor your day and mental health; pick a few practices that work and guard your mornings from hijacking.
Treat failure as data: clearly define risk and failure, then do written post-game analysis (e.g., morning pages) to extract lessons and refine decisions.
Be flexible in your path to outcomes—you don’t need to make money back the same way you lost it or reach your next goal the same way you got here.
If you were to take all of the optimal or optimized morning routines of the people you respect and layer them on top of one another, your morning is going to last until 4 p.m. So you really have to pick and choose.
Risk is the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome to me.
If you win the morning, you win the day.
“A cross between Jack Welch and a Buddhist Monk.”
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 400 million downloads.
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