The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
adherence to the program. The pictures were placed in an unavoidable spot, often on the
refrigerator, and served as inoculation against self-sabotage.
Get an accurate picture of your baseline. It will look worse than you expect. This need not be
bad news. Ignoring it won't fix it, so capture it and use it.
2. MAKE IT A GAME:
JACK STACK AND THE STICKINESS OF FIVE SESSIONS
Jack Stack was nervous. It was 1983, and he had just joined his employees to purchase SRC, a
near-bankrupt engine remanufacturer, from their parent company, International Harvester. It
was done in remarkable fashion, with $100,000 applied to a loan of $9 million, for a debt ratio
of 89-to-1. The bank officer who handled the loan was fired within hours of approving it.
The 13 managers who contributed their life savings to make it possible were also nervous,
but they needn't have been. That $100,000 would be worth $23 million in 1993, just 10 years
but they needn't have been