Testing The "Impossible":
17 Questions That Changed My Life
By Tim Ferriss - early-stage investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook) & bestselling author.
Levels of success in almost any industry or area correlate to a person asking great questions. In some cases they seem absurd. For example:
Why can't you achieve your 10 year goals in the next 6 months?
These types of questions come up surprisingly often with impressive people, whether in business, military, entertainment or otherwise.
About Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is an early-stage technology investor/ advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.
The Tim Ferriss Show podcast has exceeded 400 million downloads and has been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running.
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In 2000, I was selling mass data storage to CEOs and CTOs in my first job out of college. When I wasn’t driving my mom’s hand-me-down minivan to and from the office in San Jose, California, I was cold calling and cold emailing. “Smiling and dialing” was brutal. For the first few months, I flailed and failed (it didn’t help that my desk was wedged in a fire exit). Then one day I realized something: all of the sales guys made their sales calls between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
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