OutsideOnline: Tim Ferriss’s Life Hacks | Mental Conditioning

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Effective Incentives
• shame
• humiliation
• peer pressure
• financial loss

Ultramarathoning
• Running ultramarathons… (isn’t) necessarily what the human body is designed to do.
• Ultra­marathoners are fit in the sense that they are well-adapted organisms for long-distance running.
• I’m going to run an ultramarathon.
• I’ve never run more than 5K at any given time.
• I don’t want to do it because I think it’s good for me;
  I think it’s absolutely bad for me physically.
• But will I be the same person at the end of the race that I was at the beginning?
  No, I won’t.

Do you really think there’s a shortcut to everything? What about a skill like surfing?
I think the term shortcut has the negative connotation of cheating or not paying your dues. I pay my dues on the front end by doing the hard analytical work rather than suffering through a learning curve rife with practices and recommendations that haven’t been vetted. There might be ten different skills that comprise surfing. Could the order in which you learn those make the difference between eight weeks and eight years? Absolutely.