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Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
It took me years to play like myself.
Building vs. betting.
More moves and less chat.
Truth.
More ≠ more.
Truth
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Cover, story.
Learning.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
Labor, leverage.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Value is subjective.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You are here.
Work vs. Luck
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Experience is up only.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Resistance lifts.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The Overthinker.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
No one is coming to save you.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
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.
Realize.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
80:20
The first step is the steepest.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
