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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It took me years to play like myself.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Movement, action.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
Shoot.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Slow down.
Experience is up only.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Hierarchy.
Appreciation.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Learning.
Distraction is dilution.
Switching costs.
Everyone, Someone.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
More before better.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Vision
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Said, done.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Work vs. Luck
Truth, Perception
Perspective.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You are what you think you are.
Experience.
Hare & tortoise.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
+2 vs. x2
