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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.
Done is better than perfect.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Numbers obscure nuance.
View reading as an investment.
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.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Hours vs. Iterations
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Everyone, Someone.
It took me years to play like myself.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Cover, story.
The first step is the steepest.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
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.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Appreciation.
Generalist, specialist.
Truth
Map ≠ Territory
Truth.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
No, it took me my whole life.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Shoot.
Building vs. betting.
Think of many things; do one.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction.
Reason for being
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Labor, leverage.
Do less, do more.
Mindset vs. Mind set
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth, Perception
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Chronos, Kairos.
Fear is the mind-killer.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
