In the 4-Hour Body<\/a> Tim Ferriss encourages people to eat more, not less<\/a>.<\/p>\n He recommends eating up to six meals a day if you want to lose weight, gain strength and optimize your health.<\/p>\n Many people who try to lose weight by starving themselves only starve for a short time; during that time they lose muscle, not fat, and then they come roaring back on a binge, which makes them fatter.<\/p>\n They get fatter since they now have more calories and less muscle to burn off the added calories. I know that pattern well.<\/p>\n You can say the same thing about people who try to become rich by being cheap, being frugal, not spending money, living below their means, and scrimping.<\/p>\n Most people do not become financially strong with that type of behavior. A person needs to spend more if they want to become rich\u2026 but they must know how to spend and what to spend on in order to become rich.<\/p>\n There are good expenses and bad expenses, \u00a0and most of us know that there is good food and bad food.<\/p>\n Just as a person tries to lose weight by starving, a person who tries to get rich by being cheap only gets financially weaker<\/strong>, and then suddenly they too go on a binge, but it is not on an eating binge, it is a spending binge.<\/p>\n And just as a\u00a0binge eater will load up on junk food<\/a>, the binge spender loads up on cheap junk.<\/p>\n Tim also suggests that:<\/p>\n I believe what Tim Ferriss is saying is that it is only after you cannot go any further, at the moment you fail, that you begin to heal and grow again. In other words, only after you push yourself beyond your limits<\/a>, and fail physically, is it when you become healthier.<\/p>\n The same is true with becoming wealthier.<\/p>\n Most people are not successful because they avoid failure at all costs.\u00a0<\/strong>(Tweet dat!<\/a>)<\/p>\n Just as the investment adviser may advise against starting a business because nine out of ten businesses fail, most people look upon failure as bad. But failure is essential to learning and success.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Let me say that again because it is important:<\/p>\n Failure is essential to learning and success.<\/strong><\/p>\n I personally have learned more after I failed than before I failed. Although it sometimes hurt, the healing process after the failure is ultimately what gave me more emotional and financial strength.<\/p>\nFiscal Frugality and Financial Fitness<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\u201cMaximum intensity only occurs after you have \u2018perceived\u2019 failure.\u201d <\/strong><\/h3>\n
“Many people are not successful simply because they have successfully failed to fail.”<\/strong><\/h3>\n