Visuals

Bull, Bear, Builder.

Perspective.

Done is better than perfect.

What you work on is more important than how hard you work.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

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.

Fear is the mind-killer.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Distraction, focus.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Creativity before productivity.

Alan Watts

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Learning.

Numbers obscure nuance.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Movement, action.

Don't just do something, stand there.

The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.

Experience is up only.

View reading as an investment.

An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.

If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.

Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.

Distraction is dilution.

Talk is cheap.

Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth

Everyone, Someone.

Switching costs.

Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.

‘Everything is original, nothing is original’

If it looks simple, it was hard.

Mindset vs. Mind set

Observer, expert, practitioner.

The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.

Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.

Slow down.

80:20

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.

Hours vs. Iterations

No great thing is created suddenly.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

NFTs, explained.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

More ≠ more.

We suffer more in imagination than reality.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

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.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Appreciation.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

Cover, story.

The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.

+2 vs. x2

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

The giver is the recipient.

Chronos, Kairos.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Vision

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Builder, investor, trader.

Each man believes only his experience.

Realize.

The Overthinker.

It's all relative.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

Experience.

If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.

Thought, said, heard, understood.

The fool is always getting ready to live.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

No, it took me my whole life.

Truth, Perception

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

You are here.

Said, done.

Reason for being

Thought, Spoken, Heard

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

More moves and less chat.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Belief is a skill that requires practice.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Work vs. Luck

The more we know, the more we know we don't know.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

The obstacle is the way.

Wealth is a ratio, not a number.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Hare & tortoise.

Equity unites, politics divides.

Building vs. betting.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.

Comfort vs. pain.

Hare & tortoise.

There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Labor, leverage.

Process vs. plan.

Value is subjective.

It is really hard to make something easy.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Resistance lifts.

Truth

Distraction.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

It took me years to play like myself.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Truth.

Peace begins when expectation ends.

Map ≠ Territory

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Truth, trend.

The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Generalist, specialist.

Failure is the frame, not the picture.

Shoot.

zero-sum, infinite-sum

Knowing vs. understanding.

The first step is the steepest.

Well done is better than well said.

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

Think of many things; do one.

When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.

More before better.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

Failure = feedback.

Do less, do more.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

No one is coming to save you.

Focus is determined by what you ignore.

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.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Banks vs. Blockchains

An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.

The more you compare, the less you differentiate.

‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’

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.

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.

You are what you think you are.

Hierarchy.