Angel Investor

Advisor to Uber, Evernote, Shopify, Automattic (WordPress.com), etc. Early investor in Twitter, Facebook, and 20+ others. Longer list here: https://angel.co/tim

Principal

Crown/Harmony (Random House), Amazon Publishing,  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Author

BrainQUICKEN LLC

I founded this sports nutrition manufacturer and distributor (12+ countries at highest market saturation) in 2001 and sold it to a private equity firm in January of 2009.

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TrueSAN Networks

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Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People.” He is an angel investor/advisor (Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Nextdoor, Alibaba, etc.) and author of five #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek. Find his current antics at www.tim.blog.

2007 - Present -
Host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, the first business-interview podcast to pass 100M downloads and selected for "Best of iTunes" three years running. Author of five #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans, and Tribe of Mentors. Latest experiments and writing at http://www.tim.blog

2003 - Present - 
Guest Lecturer at Princeton University, High-tech Entrepreneurship (Electrical Engineering)

2001 - Jan. 2009 -
Co-founder and Senior Director of BrainQUICKEN LLC, neurological and sports nutrition development firm with distribution in 15+ countries.  Sold to private equity firm.

Specialties: Business: Consumer product design and marketing, social entrepreneurship and metrics (conversation, cost-per-acquisition, etc.), multivariate testing, infrastructure and manufacturing.



Avoid these 9 mistakes 👇

1. Losing sight of dreams and falling into work for work’s sake (W4W). 

2. Micromanaging and e-mailing to fill time. Set the responsibilities, problem scenarios and rules, and limits of autonomous decision-making—then stop, for the sanity of everyone involved.

3. Working where you live, sleep, or should relax. Separate your environments—designate a single space for work and solely work—or you will never be able to escape it.

4. Not performing a thorough 80/20 analysis every two to four weeks for your business and personal life. 

5. Striving for endless perfection rather than great or simply good enough, whether in your personal or professional life. Recognize that this is often just another W4W excuse. Most endeavors are like learning to speak a foreign language: to be correct 95% of the time requires six months of concentrated effort, whereas to be correct 98% of the time requires 20–30 years. Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest. Perfection is a good ideal and direction to have, but recognize it for what it is: an impossible destination. 

6. Blowing minutiae and small problems out of proportion as an excuse to work. 

7. Making non-time-sensitive issues urgent in order to justify work. Focus on life outside of your bank accounts, as scary as that void can be in the initial stages. If you cannot find meaning in your life, it is your responsibility as a human being to create it, whether that is fulfilling dreams or finding work that gives you purpose and self-worth—ideally a combination of both. 

8. Viewing one product, job, or project as the end-all and be-all of your existence. Life is too short to waste, but it is also too long to be a pessimist or nihilist. Whatever you’re doing now is just a stepping-stone to the next project or adventure. Any rut you get into is one you can get yourself out of. Doubts are no more than a signal for action of some type. When in doubt or overwhelmed, take a break and 80/20 both business and personal activities and relationships. 

9. Ignoring the social rewards of life. Surround yourself with smiling, positive people who have absolutely nothing to do with work. Happiness shared in the form of friendships and love is happiness multiplied.

Tim Ferriss

Author of 5 #1 NYT/WSJ bestsellers, Creator of COYOTE card game with 300M+ viral video views (coyotegame.com), Tim Ferriss Show podcast with 1B+ downloads

Based on everything I’ve seen, a simple recipe can work: focus on what’s in front of you, design great days to create a great life, and try not to make the same mistake twice. That’s it. If you really want extra credit, try not to be a dick, and you’ll be a Voltron-level superstar. 

The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard. 

Feeling as though you are trying too hard indicates that your priorities, technique, focus, or mindfulness is off. Take it as a cue to reset, not to double down. And take comfort in the fact that, whenever in doubt, the answer is probably hidden in plain sight. 

What would this look like if it were easy? 

In a world where nobody really knows anything, you have the incredible freedom to continually reinvent yourself and forge new paths, no matter how strange. 

Embrace your weird self. 

There is no one right answer . . . only better questions.

At 17, I read Mental Toughness Training for Sports by Dr. Jim Loehr in a bunk bed, and it changed my life. To learn from the best, you don’t need to meet them, you just need to absorb them. This can be through books, audio, or a single powerful quote. 

Feeding your mind is how you become your own best coach. 

To paraphrase Jim: The power broker in your life is the voice that no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our reality. 

For instance, how do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake that upsets you? Would you speak that way to a dear friend when they’ve made a mistake? If not, you have work to do. Trust me, we all have work to do.

If you want to have more, do more, and be more, it all begins with the voice that no one else hears.

There is much to be said for the power of money as currency (I’m a fan myself), but adding more of it just isn’t the answer as often as we’d like to think. 

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—now and not later. 

By using money as the scapegoat and work as our all-consuming routine, we are able to conveniently disallow ourselves the time to do otherwise: “John, I’d love to talk about the gaping void I feel in my 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!” 

Busy yourself with the routine of the money wheel, pretend it’s the fix-all, and you artfully create a constant distraction that prevents you from seeing just how pointless it is. 

Deep down, you know it’s all an illusion, but with everyone participating in the same game of make-believe, it’s easy to forget. 

The problem is more than money.

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”
​— George Bernard Shaw

“Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.”
​— William James ​

Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, has said that “The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.” Substitute “master learner” for “novel,” and you have my philosophy of life. Often, all that stands between you and what you want is a better set of questions.

Morning pages don’t need to solve your problems. They simply need to get them out of your head, where they’ll otherwise bounce around all day like a bullet ricocheting inside your skull. 

Could bitching and moaning on paper for 5 minutes each morning change your life? 

As crazy as it seems, I believe the answer is yes.

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.”​
— Amelia Earhart​

“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, ‘Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything,’ and an optimist who says, ‘Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway.’ Either way, nothing happens.”
​— Yvon Chouinard​

I do NOT endorse the Pulsetto "vagus nerve stimulator." They are using my name and face to promote a product I tried and decided against. Deceptive and bad behavior. Don't buy it.

Oftentimes, in order to do the big things, you have to let the small bad things happen.

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
​— Louis L'Amour​

“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons—the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.”
​— Walt Whitman

“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. … In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal.”
​— Andrzej Stasiuk

I have recommended Kevin Kelly’s “1,000 True Fans” to literally millions of people. “If you only read one article on marketing, make it this one” is my common wording. 

Here’s a highly simplified synopsis: “Success” need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.

“My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.”​ — Nassim Nicholas Taleb​

“The worst thing a son of a bitch can do is turn you into a son of a bitch.”​ — Frank Oppenheimer​

“‘What is the secret of your serenity?’
Said the Master, ‘Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.’”​
— Anthony de Mello​

“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
​— Gustave Flaubert

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