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View reading as an investment.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Shoot.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Think of many things; do one.
Hare & tortoise.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
More moves and less chat.
Map ≠ Territory
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Experience.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Well done is better than well said.
Distraction, focus.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Building vs. betting.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You are what you think you are.
Truth
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Work vs. Luck
Creativity before productivity.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Chronos, Kairos.
The Overthinker.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Everyone, Someone.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Builder, investor, trader.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Perspective.
The first step is the steepest.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Distraction is dilution.
Distraction.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
