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There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Realize.
Movement, action.
Truth, Perception
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.
Learning.
Switching costs.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Creativity before productivity.
+2 vs. x2
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The first step is the steepest.
Experience is up only.
Map ≠ Territory
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Numbers obscure nuance.
Appreciation.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Distraction.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
More moves and less chat.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
More ≠ more.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Chronos, Kairos.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
No, it took me my whole life.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Truth.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You are what you think you are.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Hours vs. Iterations
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Distraction is dilution.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Each man believes only his experience.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
