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Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Experience.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Map ≠ Territory
Failure = feedback.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Each man believes only his experience.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Value is subjective.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Comfort vs. pain.
Hare & tortoise.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Do less, do more.
View reading as an investment.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More moves and less chat.
The Overthinker.
Equity unites, politics divides.
More ≠ more.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Building vs. betting.
It took me years to play like myself.
Reason for being
Builder, investor, trader.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
+2 vs. x2
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Truth.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
80:20
Distraction is dilution.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Process vs. plan.
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.
Realize.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The first step is the steepest.
