书名：Tools of Titans 泰坦巨人们的工具 

作者：Timothy Ferriss 

出版社名称：Vermilion 

出版时间：2016 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9781785041273 

商品尺寸：15.3 x 4.3 x 23.4 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：704（以实物为准）Tools of Titans《泰坦巨人们的工具》是一本从世界上200多位成功人士中提炼出来的，可以改变我们生活的个人提高工具书宝典。通过采访200多位牛人，其中包括从健美先生变身加州州长的阿诺德·施瓦辛格（Arnold Schwarzenegger）、好莱坞影星杰米·福克斯（Jamie Foxx）、励志讲师安东尼·罗宾（Antony Robbins）、投资天才皮特·泰尔（Peter Thiel）、硅谷教父里德·霍夫曼（Reid Hoffman）……拥有超过1.5亿下载量的《The Tim Ferriss Show》播主Tim Ferriss总结了这些大师的思维方法、日常活动、推荐书籍以及成功秘诀，编写成本书，鼓舞了无数的读者。 #1 New York Times Bestseller The latest groundbreaking tome from Tim Ferriss, the best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek. From the author: “For the last two years, I’ve interviewed nearly two hundred world-class performers for my podcast,The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview, and the show is on the cusp of passing 100 million downloads. “This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and ‘inside baseball’ you won’t find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new ‘guests’ you haven’t met. “What makes the show different is a relentless focus on actionable details. This is reflected in the questions. For example: What do these people do in the first sixty minutes of each morning? What do their workout routines look like, and why? What books have they gifted most to other people? What are the biggest wastes of time for novices in their field? What supplements do they take on a daily basis? “I don’t view myself as an interviewer. I view myself as an experimenter. If I can’t test something and replicate results in the messy reality of everyday life, I’m not interested. “Everything within these pages has been vetted, explored, and applied to my own life in some fashion. I’ve used dozens of the tactics and philosophies in high-stakes negotiations, high-risk environments, or large business dealings. The lessons have made me millions of dollars and saved me years of wasted effort and frustration. “I created this book, my ultimate notebook of high-leverage tools, for myself. It’s changed my life, and I hope the same for you.” Review "Tools of Titans...is the perfect read for obsessives wanting to boost their new year productivity." —Financial Times "A Poor Richard's Almanack for the 21st century, Tools of Titans is a practical and inspiring guide to being your best."—BookPage对Tim Ferriss而言，这些他采访过的大师都是普通人，唯一的不同在于：他们有着正确的理念和习惯。 蒂姆在书中说道：“如果你想要一段高质量的对话，你得先能提出‘精彩的问题’”。他经常问大师们的精彩问题包括： ·当你想到“成功”这个词，谁是你脑海中第1个浮现的人？为什么？ ·你做过的哪些事情，你自己深信不疑会成功，别人却无法理解觉得太疯狂？ ·你经常推荐和送别人当做礼物的一本书是什么？为什么是这本书？ ·你早上起床后的一个小时是怎么度过的？ ·你希望给20、30、40岁的自己什么样的建议？ ·你过去的这几年有哪些思想上的重大转变？它们是如何发生的？ 通过与200位大师交流，蒂姆在书中总结了很多关于提升自我的建议，例如： No.1学习和效仿你佩服的人 No.2要不断地投资自己 …… 蒂姆提到，每天坚持早起、冥想、健身、阅读、记笔记的习惯，不断的投资自己的身心健康。是许多领域成功人士的日常。 蒂姆说他从来不把自己当做一个采访者，而把自己视为一个实验者。每次做完节目后，他都会亲自检验、探索嘉宾们给出的建议和方法。只有那些他亲自验证过对自己切实有效的方法，他才会写到这本书里。 Tim Ferriss，畅销书《每周工作四小时》的作者，拥有全球超过1.5亿的下载量的The Tim Ferriss Show的播主。 Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Forbes’s “Names You Need to Know.” He is an early-stage tech investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Alibaba, and more) and the author of three #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and The 4-Hour Chef. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his 100M-plus-download podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. Part 1: Healthy Part 2: Wealthy Part 3: Wise These world-class performers don’t have superpowers. The rules they’ve crafted for themselves allow the bending of reality to such an extent that it may seem that way, but they’ve learned how to do this, and so can you. These “rules” are often uncommon habits and bigger questions. In a surprising number of cases, the power is in the absurd. The more absurd, the more “impossible” the question, the more profound the answers. Take, for instance, a question that serial billionaire Peter Thiel likes to ask himself and others: “If you had a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’ you do this in 6 months?” For purposes of illustration here, I might reword that to: “What might you do to accomplish your To-year goals in the next 6 months, if you had a gun against your head? Now, let’s pause. Do I expect you to take 10 seconds to ponder this and then magically accomplish 10 years’ worth of dreams in the next few months? No. I don’t. But I do expect that the question will productively break your mind, like a butterfly shattering a chrysalis to emerge with new capabilities. The “normal” systems you have in place, the social rules you’ve forced upon yourself, the standard frameworks—they don’t work when answering a question like this. You are forced to shed artificial constraints, like shedding a skin, to realize that you had the ability to renegotiate your reality all along. It just takes practice. My suggestion is that you spend real time with the questions you find most ridiculous iii this book. Thirty minutes of stream-of-consciousness journaling could change your life.