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Chronos, Kairos.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Everyone, Someone.
No, it took me my whole life.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Vision
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Generalist, specialist.
Creativity before productivity.
Done is better than perfect.
Said, done.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Truth, Perception
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Perspective.
More before better.
Well done is better than well said.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Movement, action.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Most people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it is, with the world as they think about it, and talk about it, and describe it.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
80:20
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Building vs. betting.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Realize.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Experience is up only.
Truth
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Each man believes only his experience.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
It took me years to play like myself.
Switching costs.
Knowing vs. understanding.
You are what you think you are.
The first step is the steepest.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Distraction is dilution.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Truth.
