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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Building vs. betting.
Truth, trend.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Everyone, Someone.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Switching costs.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Truth
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction.
Vision
Chronos, Kairos.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
No one is coming to save you.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Work vs. Luck
Resistance lifts.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Distraction is dilution.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Process vs. plan.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Appreciation.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Perspective.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Said, done.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Hare & tortoise.
80:20
Well done is better than well said.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
