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Work vs. Luck
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Chronos, Kairos.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
More moves and less chat.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The giver is the recipient.
You are here.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Hours vs. Iterations
Don't just do something, stand there.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
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.
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.
Talk is cheap.
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.
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.
It's all relative.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Slow down.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Value is subjective.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Generalist, specialist.
Perspective.
Creativity before productivity.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Vision
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Cover, story.
Hare & tortoise.
Everyone, Someone.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You are what you think you are.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
