That is a good question. Well, one thing I do love is my elastic shoelaces. ... So, you just replace the cloth shoelaces with these elastic… I think it’s called “Lace Lock” is the brand I use. And, yeah, shoelaces seem like such 18th century technology.
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months?
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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?
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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Time & hindsight
That’s a great question. Coconut oil. ... Everything. You can take a bath with it. You can put it in a smoothie. You can cook vegetables with it. You can actually put it on your skin. I think coconut oil is a cheap miracle buy.
Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 26 June 2018 source ↗
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Nicholas McCarthy
Concert pianist; the first one-handed pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music
Actually, this is quite random, but I love it. It’s a diffuser for aromatherapy oils. My piano is in my lounge and I have this diffuser on. I put different oils in. For when I’m practicing, I would put geranium in, for instance, which I love. I just find it relaxes me, but at the same time keeps me perked up enough to be able to work.
Jason Nemer
Co-founder of AcroYoga; former national-level acrobat
We’ve already got it. It’s the Frisbees, for sure. I was hanging out with my two brothers and my dad. We decided to drive up the coast and my two brothers and me, we’ve played Frisbee golf our whole lives so we love it, and my dad, not so much. But we got a bunch of discs and then we went really high up on Highway 1 and threw them out into the ocean.
Mark Bell
Powerlifter; founder of Slingshot and Super Training Gym
Initially I was going to say a pair of Groucho Marx glasses that I bought in Japan. I got a lot of legs out of those.
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View profile →Don't be scared of the ‘what ifs,’ because the truth is, the only failure is not trying. That's the only way you can fail. Trying and having it not work out isn't failure.
I think fear and fear of the unknown and perceived failure is what holds people back. For me, I am more scared of complacency than having something not work out. I'd rather take a leap of faith and fall than stand on the edge forever.
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