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Desire success? Start asking dumb questions.
In a world afraid of embarrassment, asking dumb questions is a super power, says Tim Ferriss. It takes a secure intellect to risk looking silly, but the rewards are there for the taking.
January 23, 2017
Entrepreneurs: Stop Fetishizing Failure, Start Asking Absurd Questions
Silicon Valley's entrepreneurial trends go through births and deaths, revolutionizing business attitudes before turning stale. Tim Ferris explains two trends: one near its death, the other very much alive and kicking.
January 12, 2017
Top Entrepreneurs Don’t Just Engineer Success – They Reverse Engineer It
Start at the beginning sounds like good advice, and yet it isn't, says Tim Ferriss. He explains the value of the mastering the endgame, and of carving out empty space.
December 13, 2016
Procrastinating? Use these Jedi mind tricks to meet your goals.
Tim Ferriss shares a bounty of strategies to help you really and truly overcome procrastination. And if it doesn't do it for you, hey, at least you just killed 10 minutes.
December 05, 2016
There's a Learning Method to My Madness
Tim Ferriss: I have learned tango, kickboxing, languages – all this crazy stuff. It’s because I had a method and that is a method that you can use.
January 28, 2014
The Method to My Language Learning Madness
It wasn’t until I was forced as an exchange student in Japan – my first time abroad – to learn Japanese using comic books and judo textbooks because I had no choice.
October 18, 2013
The Key to Language Learning is the Method, Not the Individual
I'm not good at language learning. It's the method. And that method can be copied.
August 09, 2013
You Can Become Extremely Good at Anything if You Lose Your Fear
You need to take the skills you have retired and become extremely good at them.
August 09, 2013
Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People," one of Forbes's “Names You Need to Know," 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 three #1New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio" due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which has exceeded 90 million downloads and was selected for "Best of iTunes" in 2015. His latest book is Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.
