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There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Chronos, Kairos.
Appreciation.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Comfort vs. pain.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Labor, leverage.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Truth, trend.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You are here.
Building vs. betting.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Think of many things; do one.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Truth
Generalist, specialist.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Learning.
Truth.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
More ≠ more.
Hare & tortoise.
Perspective.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Builder, investor, trader.
Distraction is dilution.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Alan Watts
No, it took me my whole life.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
The giver is the recipient.
Vision
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Work vs. Luck
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
