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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
+2 vs. x2
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The first step is the steepest.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Value is subjective.
Well done is better than well said.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The giver is the recipient.
Switching costs.
Learning.
You are what you think you are.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
More before better.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Hare & tortoise.
Perspective.
Experience.
Truth, trend.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The obstacle is the way.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
You are here.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Generalist, specialist.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Creativity before productivity.
Map ≠ Territory
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The Overthinker.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Talk is cheap.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
More ≠ more.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Hierarchy.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Banks vs. Blockchains
