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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth, Perception
Work vs. Luck
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Failure = feedback.
Switching costs.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The Overthinker.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Truth, trend.
No, it took me my whole life.
Appreciation.
Chronos, Kairos.
Value is subjective.
Comfort vs. pain.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Alan Watts
Do less, do more.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Perspective.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Labor, leverage.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It took me years to play like myself.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Creativity before productivity.
Done is better than perfect.
Talk is cheap.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
More before better.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
You are here.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The first step is the steepest.
Cover, story.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Learning.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Process vs. plan.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The giver is the recipient.
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.
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.
