Short Life Advice From the Best In the World
Tim Ferriss shares the ultimate choose-your-own-adventure book—a compilation of tools, tactics, and habits of the world’s top performers. Their short profiles can help you answer life’s most challenging questions, achieve extraordinary results, and transform your life.
This book contains practical and tactical advice from the most impressive world-class performers in the world. Whether you want to 10x your results, get unstuck, or reinvent yourself, someone else has traveled a similar path and taken notes.
Key Takeaways
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed and unfocused?
1. Move focus follows movement. Go for a walk, hike, get out and move around. When you walk, you walk away from overwhelm, and into a state of clarity. Each step you take sheds a bit of overwhelm and leaves it in your tracks.
- The next time you feel overwhelmed, drop what you’re doing and go for a long walk. Bonus points if you walk in a new direction and you walk in nature.
2. Meditation a 20-minute meditation session involves shifting you attention from a distracting thought to being curious about the natural rhythm of your breath over and over and over again. Each time you shift your attention to your breath, a little bit of overwhelm falls away and a bit of focus is restored.
- 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon.
3. Memento Mori latin for remember you must die. It might seem dark to think about death, but when you remember that your time is limited, you’ll appreciate the world around you. Everything and everyone will be done one day, so why not enjoy the moment? Why walk around angry, stressed or overwhelmed and miss the good in every situation.
- “External expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment and failure fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” -Steve Jobs
- The next time you’re feeling overwhelmed and unfocused, use death to spark a sense of appreciation and clarify your priorities.
- Don’t feel the need to push on and continue on and push through. It’s almost always better to take a break. Move. Meditate and Memento Mori.
