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Map ≠ Territory
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Distraction is dilution.
Creativity before productivity.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Truth, Perception
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Perspective.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Value is subjective.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, trend.
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.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Switching costs.
Labor, leverage.
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.
Done is better than perfect.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Don't just do something, stand there.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The obstacle is the way.
Comfort vs. pain.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Think of many things; do one.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
80:20
NFTs, explained.
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.
Experience is up only.
Vision
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Chronos, Kairos.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Builder, investor, trader.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Distraction, focus.
Resistance lifts.
Slow down.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Hare & tortoise.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
