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Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Failure = feedback.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Said, done.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
80:20
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Resistance lifts.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Thought, said, heard, understood.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
More ≠ more.
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.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Slow down.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Appreciation.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The Overthinker.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth
Work vs. Luck
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Creativity before productivity.
No, it took me my whole life.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Learning.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Talk is cheap.
Think of many things; do one.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Truth, Perception
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Experience.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Comfort vs. pain.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The giver is the recipient.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
