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Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Labor, leverage.
It took me years to play like myself.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Think of many things; do one.
Movement, action.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Numbers obscure nuance.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You are what you think you are.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
NFTs, explained.
Work vs. Luck
Don't just do something, stand there.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
View reading as an investment.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Vision
More ≠ more.
Well done is better than well said.
Equity unites, politics divides.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
More before better.
The Overthinker.
The first step is the steepest.
Hierarchy.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
80:20
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Builder, investor, trader.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Map ≠ Territory
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Generalist, specialist.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Truth, trend.
+2 vs. x2
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Building vs. betting.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Alan Watts
