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Ferriss: Diversifying identity across athletic, intellectual, and work goals sustains momentum

Tim Ferriss · #1001 The 1,000 interview celebration · Apr 9, 2014 · at 13:56

Tim Ferriss explains how entrepreneurs can avoid tying their entire self-worth to startup success by maintaining outside physical and intellectual pursuits.

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“By diversifying your identity, say, with one athletic component, one sort of intellectual component, and one professional component, every week can still be a win, and you can gain that sort of positive momentum To do more things.”

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