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Realize.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
More before better.
Distraction.
You are here.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Well done is better than well said.
The obstacle is the way.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Value is subjective.
Creativity before productivity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Failure = feedback.
Building vs. betting.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
80:20
View reading as an investment.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Reason for being
Equity unites, politics divides.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Talk is cheap.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Truth, Perception
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Done is better than perfect.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
No one is coming to save you.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
More ≠ more.
Mindset vs. Mind set
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Said, done.
Appreciation.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Comfort vs. pain.
Everyone, Someone.
Think of many things; do one.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Hierarchy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You are what you think you are.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.