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Author: [[Timothy Ferriss]] Full Title: Tribe of Mentors Category: #books “The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.” What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It’s easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you’re not redlining, you’re not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process. morning, by journaling on this question—What would this look like if it were easy?—in The older I get, the more time I spend—as a percentage of each day—on crafting better questions. In my experience, going from 1x to 10x, from 10x to 100x, and from 100x to (when Lady Luck really smiles) 1000x returns in various areas has been a product of better questions. John Dewey’s dictum that “a problem well put is half-solved” applies. Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. After all, conscious thinking is largely If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions. “The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.”

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Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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