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One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Mindset vs. Mind set
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Perspective.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Cover, story.
Distraction is dilution.
Experience.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Well done is better than well said.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
Reason for being
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
No one is coming to save you.
Distraction.
80:20
The Overthinker.
Everyone, Someone.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Appreciation.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Process vs. plan.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Building vs. betting.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
+2 vs. x2
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fear is the mind-killer.
More ≠ more.
Generalist, specialist.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Failure = feedback.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The giver is the recipient.
It's all relative.
Resistance lifts.
Hierarchy.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Truth, trend.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.