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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Work vs. Luck
Generalist, specialist.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Alan Watts
Builder, investor, trader.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Movement, action.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Experience.
The Overthinker.
Map ≠ Territory
More moves and less chat.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The giver is the recipient.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Truth
View reading as an investment.
Hours vs. Iterations
Hare & tortoise.
Distraction, focus.
80:20
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Reason for being
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Said, done.
Everyone, Someone.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
It's all relative.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Vision
More before better.
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.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
It is really hard to make something easy.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Perspective.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Hierarchy.
Done is better than perfect.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
