10 rules of success from Tim Ferris

1. Think of the morning ritual

Morning - a difficult time of day. You wake up (many - hard) and you realize that the sun is high, you have a lot of work, but you're still in your pajamas. As a result, you do not follow your plan, do not achieve the goals, and trying to fend off what the world throws at you.

Successful people have a morning ritual that helps to tune in to a fruitful day. This should be something as simple and easy and felt so at least the first five times. For example, only one conscious breath.

Sam Ferris recommends practicing meditation.

2. Turn your weakness in the chip

Many successful people have told us that they are aware of their weaknesses. But instead of fighting with them, turned them into super powers with a strong push forward.

Ask yourself this question: "If my weakness should become a force, how would I do that?" And then act.

Successful people understand that their shortcomings are not something that is objectively evil. This is just the qualities that are considered "unpopular" or do not like themselves.

A striking example: a famous American radio host Dan Carlin in the early days was talking badly (in any case, it is repeated around). He enrolled original: strongly emphasized the feature, made it his trademark style.

Perhaps someone will say that the advice to patent trivial drawbacks. And he will be right. Hence the following rule.

3. Keep it simple

Shay Carl, one of the founders of Maker Studios (the company sold to Disney for nearly a billion dollars), really wanted to lose weight. He did not use the latest diet or advanced technology. Karl realized to put himself in a good shape, do not ignore the clichés, and to follow them.

Banal advice to eat less and exercise more is still very effective work.

We all know that the tears of sorrow will not help. But ever wondered why this phrase has become proverbial.

We can not achieve these goals is not due to lack of opportunities, but because we are all too complicated.

4. Learn to think, suffer and wait

Many people wonder what successful people like to read. However, Tim Ferris, communicating with them, elaborate on what kind of books they are presented with, and as a result built his original list. It includes "Sapiens. A brief history of humanity"Yuval Harari November, a collection of articles entitled" Almanac poor Charlie "," Man's Search for Meaning "by Victor Frankl.

One book mentioned frequently. According to Ferris, it contains lessons that will be useful for everyone. This "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse.

Chief described it a lesson - that we have to learn to think, to wait and be patient.

• Thinking allows a critical approach to problems and to ask more literate than most people questions. And therefore, receive less obvious answers.
• Patience teaches "starve" and endure discomfort. That over time will help to resist stronger inconvenience.
• The ability to wait - this selective patience. Anticipating the achievement of high results, you realize that the path to the resounding victory may be long.

5. Put yourself tasks before bedtime

Founder of LinkedIn and co-founder of PayPal, Reid Hoffman billionaire cope with the complexities of a curious way. Before going to sleep, he diarize unsolved problem to the subconscious mind to "digest" it, and meditate at night.

Perhaps this method seems too simple. However, it has resorted to another known titanium - Chess prodigy Joshua Waitzkin, best known for the biographical film "Searching for Bobby Fischer." He writes the task after dinner and trying to solve it the next morning.

Never go to bed without a request to your subconscious mind.

Thomas Edison, American inventor

6. help people

Many people sought successSimplifying the life of his superiors. They are not confined to their tasks, and cleared the way for the manager, taking on additional responsibilities on their own to solve various problems. Through this they gain the trust and turned into the chief mentor.

It is not podlizyvanie and assistance aimed at the others to express themselves. Clearing the way for the people above you, and eventually you will create a path for himself.

This principle worked in the days of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, it works now.

Billionaire Chris Sacco, who started at Google, volunteered to take notes for senior executives in business meetings. And thus I became closely acquainted with the world of business.

7. Do not think about the people bad

Often we think of others as "complex", evil, when in fact they were just tired, experiencing due to some problems, upset or disappointed in yourself. In most cases, people They do not want to hurt you. Do not make up one's mind, but just watch: perhaps someone has quarreled with her husband, or at his house burst pipe. Perhaps he simply incompetent or is hungry.

People are better understood as more children. When we communicate with moody or tired child, we never say what he's up against us something bad.

Alain de Botton, author of "How Proust Can Change Your Life"

8. Choose your surroundings wisely

Naval Ravikant, CEO and co-founder AngelList, one of the first investors in a number of start-ups, which include Twitter, Uber, offers a theory of five chimpanzees. Its essence is simple: people around you affect us regardless of whether we realize it or not.

If you do not take into account this factor, you will never be as successful and happy as you want to become.

Zoologists can predict the mood and behavior of any chimpanzee, if they know the five other animals, with which it communicates. Choose your "five chimpanzees" very carefully.

The world is changing for your example, and do not you think.

Paulo Coelho, author

Emotionally, physically and financially you are the average of the five people that spend the most time. Look at those who are near you. Are they the ones who you want to be? If you have children or subordinates, then you do affects them. And not by words but by deeds.

9. First, listen to the person and then draw conclusions

Co-author of the bestseller "Freakonomics"Steven Dabner believes that the moral compass can be sometimes overlooked. The thing is that we should not hurry to make their judgment about a person before you to listen to him.

If you will be guided solely by their moral character, you risk not to hear and not understand correctly what you are saying.

The demonization of the person at the beginning of the conversation to anything good will not.

If you want to collaborate and solve problems, especially when people have different opinions, your moral position can be a huge obstacle.

When you are generating the ideas, not the test, the moral compass should be temporarily set aside. Do not start a conversation with censure and to determine the culprit. Especially if you need help that person to find solutions.

10. Appreciate your achievements

Savoring the good times, it is difficult Davsha achievements is an incredibly powerful technique that makes it possible to feel happy. Ferris says that before he gets to achieve many goals, but he did not appreciate what he did. After he killed one firedrake, he immediately looked after a second target.

So when things were not as good as we would like, Timothy felt depressed.

Fix it helped "Bank of pride", which Ferris daily folded leaves, on which he wrote, that happened a good day. In difficult times, he took out a jar and reminisced about their achievements.

If you can not enjoy what has been achieved, you can not be happy in the future.