| laquo;The 4-hour workweek raquo; by Timothy Ferris |
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Here’s the little secrete I rarely tell: it all costs less than rent in the United States.
Книга «The 4-hour Workweek» от автора Timothy Ferris – славная книга. Начало хорошо со мной резонирует. Спасибо nmlss за рекомендацию, у него взял pdf. Вот пару цитат.
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Less Is Not Laziness.
Doing less meaningless work, so you that you can focus on things of grater personal importance, is NOT laziness. This is hard for most to accept, because our culture tends to reward personal sacrifice instead of personal productivity.
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"Being busy is a form of laziness -- lazy thinking and indiscriminate action."
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"Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective - doing less - is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest." from the Parretto Principal 80/20 chapter.
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"The best solution is to use both together [the 80/20 and Parkinson's Law]: Identify the few critical tasks that contribute the most to the income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines."
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"Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?""
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Alert three times a day a question: "Are you inventing things to do to avoid the important?"
*** Learn to propose [solutions instead of being passive]:
"Can I make a suggestion?" - "Можно посоветовать?"
"I propose" - "Предлагаю следующее..."
"I'd like to propose..." - "Предположим мы сделаем так..."
"I suggest that ... what do you think?" - "Давайте сделаем так, ..., что скажите?"
"Let's try ... and then .... if that doesn't work." - "Попробуем ..., и если не сработает - ..." ***
"The Low-Information Diet: cultivating selective ignorance."
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Most people won't even remember what they spent one to two hours absorbing that morning.
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"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate." Dave Barry, humorist.
*** Enough is enough. Lemmings no more. The blind quest for cash is a fool’s errand.
I’ve chartered private planes over Andes, enjoyed many of the best wines in the world in between world-class ski runs, and lived like a king, lounging by the infinity pool of a private villa. Here’s the little secrete I rarely tell: it all costs less than rent in the United States. If you can free your time and location, your money is automatically worth 3-10 times as much.
This has nothing to do with currency rates. Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two different things.
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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct the course along the way.
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Eustress, on the other hand, is a word most of you have probably never heard. Eu-, a Greek prefix for “healthy,” is used in the same sense in the world “euphoria.” Role models who push up to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
People who avoid all criticism fail. It’s destructive criticism we need to avid, not criticism in all forms. Similarly, there is no progress without eustress, and the more eustress we can create and apply to our lives, the sooner we can actualize our dreams. The trick is telling the two apart.
The New Rich are equally aggressive in removing distress and finding eustress.”
Positive stress – so true. A good workout and results even if failed. We need a good word for that, instead of “but I’ve learned a lot.”
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Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving. Get good at being a troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up.
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Emphasize Strengths, Don’t Fix Weaknesses.
Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most. I am great at product creating and marketing but terrible at most of the things that follow.
My body was designed to lift heavy objects and throw them, and that’s it. I ignored this for a long time. I tried swimming and looked like a drowning monkey. I tried basketball and looked like a cavemen. Then I became a fighter and took off.
It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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Remember – boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.”
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely that you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement.
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The simple solution came to me accidentally four years ago. At that time, I had more money than I new what to do with – I was making $70K or so per month – and I was completely miserable, worse than ever. I had no time and was working myself to death. I had started my own company, only to realize it would be nearly impossible to sell. Oops. I felt trapped and stupid at the same time.
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If you are nervous about making the jump or simply putting it off out of fear of the unknown, here is your antidote. Write down your answers, and keep in mind that thinking a lot will not prove as fruitful or as prolific as simply brain vomiting on a page. Write and do not edit – aim for volume. Spend a few minutes on each answer.
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It isn’t “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
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It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. [sooo me!] The level of competition is this fiercest for the “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $100,000”.
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Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and reparability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
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So I took the trip, right? Well, I’ll get to that. First, I felt it prudent to dance around with my shame, embarrassment, and anger for six months, all the while playing an endless loop of reasons why my cop-out fantasy trip could never work. One of my most productive periods, for sure.
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Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.
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Getting Off the Wrong Train
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." – Richard P. Feynman, Novel Prize-winning physicist.
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In part, it’s laziness. “If only I had more money” is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – not and not later. By using money as the escape-goat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able conveniently disallow ourselves the time to to do otherwise: “John, I’d love to talk about the gaping void I feel in life, the hopelessness that hits me like a punch in the eye every time I start my computer in the morning, but I have so much work to do! I’ve got at least three hours of unimportant e-mail to reply to before calling the prospects who said ‘no’ yesterday. Gotta run!”
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Сергей Николаевич Булгаков
Перевезенцев С. В. Сергей Николаевич Булгаков (1871—1944) родился в г. Ливны Орловской губернии, в семье священника. В юности он учился в Ливенском духовном училище и Орловской духовной семинарии, в 1890—1894 гг. — на юридическом факультете Московского университета. В студенческие годы С.Н. Булгаковым увлекается марксизмом, особенно марксистской политэкономией.
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laquo;The 4-hour workweek raquo; by Timothy Ferris
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