86Thousand400: Tim Ferris

Glenn Beck (Hit rock bottom as an alcoholic in his 30s and restarted his life. Fast forward to 2014, Forbes named him their annual Celebrity 100 Power list and pegged his earnings at $90 million for that year. The goal of his podcasts is to push listeners outside of their comfort zones and force them to question assumptions)

On a life changing conversation with Yale Professor Wayne Meeks

- Let people know that they are enough. Because there's something stupid in us that just makes us feel like we're not good enough, we're not smart enough. (George speaking....WE ARE)!

Tara Brach (PhD in clinical psychology and one of the leading teachers of Buddhist thinking and Meditation in the Western world)

- "There's a mystic who says there's only one really good question, which is, 'What am I unwilling to feel?'"

- Recognising anger and other types of what we consider "negative" emotions. Rather than trying to suppress something or swat it away, we say to the emotions/ourselves, "I see you." This counterintuitively helps to dissolve or resolve the issue. For instance, if you're meditating and anger comes up, maybe the memory of some personal slight, you might silently repeat "anger, anger" to yourself and acknowledge it, which allows you to quickly return to whatever your focus is

- Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand - it only makes things worse. Sometimes the most proactive "defense" is a mental nod and wink

Mike Birbiglia (Comedian and writer/star of Don't Think Twice)

Advice to 20 year old self

- Write everything down because it's all very fleeting

- Don't waste your time on marketing, just try to get better...

- It's not about being good; it's about being great

The Jar of Awesome

- Mason jar on kitchen counter with JAR OF AWESOME in glitter letters on the side. Anytime something cool happens in the day, something that made Tim excited or joyful, doctor's orders are to write it down on a slip of paper and put it in this mason jar. When something great happens, you think you'll remember it 3 months later, but you won't. The Jar of Awesome creates a record of great things that actually happened, all of which are easy to forget if you're depressed or seeing the world through gray coloured glasses

- Things aren't so bad. Tim came to realise that A) If you're serious all the time, you'll wear out before the truly serious stuff gets done; and B) If you don't regularly appreciate the small wins, you will never appreciate the big wins

- The more serious you are in "real life," the more ridiculous you should make it. Who are you trying to impress?

- Developing gratitude using this simple, low tech godsend

- Cultivate the habit of putting something in every day

- Look for the good, practice finding the good, and you'll see it more often

Josh Waitzkin (Chess Prodigy, he has perfected learning strategies that can be applied to anything - Jin-jitsu/tai chi. These days, he spends his time coaching the world's top athletes and investors. He wrote the book, The Art of Learning)

If you're studying my game, you're entering my game

- Share exact under-the-hood details. Tim does this because of two core beliefs

- 1. The more I help people with details, the more detailed help I receive

- 2 Attention to detail will scare off half of the people who have tried; 40% will try it and be worse than me; 10% will try it and be better than me, but....that 10% will often reach out to teach me what they've learned, and they're grateful for my own transparency

Remember the last 3 turns

- I carry this onto the guys who I train. Ending the work day with very high quality, which for one thing means you're internalising quality overnight

To turn it on, learn to turn it off (and vice versa)

- (Marcelo, boxing champ) He can turn it off so deeply, and man, when he goes in the ring, you can't turn it on with any more intensity than he can. His ability to turn it off is directly aligned with how intensely he can turn it on, so (I train) people to do this, to have stress and recovery undulation throughout their day

- Interval training (often at midday or lunch break) and meditation together are beautiful habits to develop to cultivate the art of turning it on and turning it off

The little things are the big things

- Embodying the principle of quality in all these little ways. These little ways, you could say don't matter, but they add up to matter hugely.

- Little things are the big things. Because they're a reflection. This may sound cliched, but how you do anything is how you do everything

- Critical principle, and most people think they can wait around for big moments to turn it on. But if you don't cultivate 'turning it on' as a way of life in the little moments - and there are hundreds of times more little moments than big - then there's no chance in the big moments...I believe that when you're not cultivating quality, you're essentially cultivating sloppiness