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Mindset vs. Mind set
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.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Chronos, Kairos.
Slow down.
Perspective.
Each man believes only his experience.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Experience is up only.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Said, done.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Work vs. Luck
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Creativity before productivity.
Movement, action.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
You are what you think you are.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Done is better than perfect.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Shoot.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Distraction is dilution.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Everyone, Someone.
Hare & tortoise.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
More before better.
Vision
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Labor, leverage.
The obstacle is the way.
Distraction, focus.
Switching costs.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Building vs. betting.
