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The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Realize.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Creativity before productivity.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Truth
Value is subjective.
Learning.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
The first step is the steepest.
Generalist, specialist.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
No one is coming to save you.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Labor, leverage.
Think of many things; do one.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Experience.
Hare & tortoise.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Resistance lifts.
The Overthinker.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Distraction.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Done is better than perfect.
It is really hard to make something easy.
More moves and less chat.
Builder, investor, trader.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
Talk is cheap.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You are here.
Building vs. betting.
Perspective.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Hours vs. Iterations
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Switching costs.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Cover, story.
Each man believes only his experience.
Distraction, focus.
View reading as an investment.
