168 originals
Perspective.
Alan Watts
Experience.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
+2 vs. x2
Work vs. Luck
More ≠ more.
The giver is the recipient.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The Overthinker.
Process vs. plan.
Banks vs. Blockchains
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Experience is up only.
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.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Generalist, specialist.
No one is coming to save you.
Builder, investor, trader.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Value is subjective.
Do less, do more.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Movement, action.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Think of many things; do one.
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.
Reason for being
Truth
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Hare & tortoise.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The first step is the steepest.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Cover, story.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
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.
Switching costs.
It's all relative.
Failure = feedback.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Distraction, focus.
