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Realize.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Resistance lifts.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Distraction is dilution.
Building vs. betting.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Failure = feedback.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Each man believes only his experience.
Vision
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Reason for being
Truth
Labor, leverage.
You are what you think you are.
Slow down.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The obstacle is the way.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Done is better than perfect.
80:20
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Process vs. plan.
No one is coming to save you.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Said, done.
Movement, action.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Map ≠ Territory
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Alan Watts
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
It took me years to play like myself.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Generalist, specialist.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Comfort vs. pain.
