168 originals
Reason for being
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The obstacle is the way.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Failure = feedback.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Knowing vs. understanding.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Don't just do something, stand there.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Experience.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Comfort vs. pain.
Cover, story.
More ≠ more.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No one is coming to save you.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Alan Watts
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Creativity before productivity.
Appreciation.
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.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
+2 vs. x2
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Work vs. Luck
Builder, investor, trader.
Value is subjective.
Hierarchy.
Movement, action.
Truth
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Building vs. betting.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Talk is cheap.
The Overthinker.
