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The obstacle is the way.
Knowing vs. understanding.
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.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Creativity before productivity.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Value is subjective.
More ≠ more.
Distraction.
Perspective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Appreciation.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Equity unites, politics divides.
Distraction is dilution.
Alan Watts
View reading as an investment.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Said, done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The Overthinker.
Chronos, Kairos.
NFTs, explained.
Reason for being
Work vs. Luck
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
No one is coming to save you.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Truth, trend.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
