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The obstacle is the way.
Said, done.
Experience.
Alan Watts
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
View reading as an investment.
It's all relative.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You are what you think you are.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Creativity before productivity.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Failure = feedback.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Realize.
80:20
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
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.
Generalist, specialist.
Hare & tortoise.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Distraction.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Do less, do more.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
More before better.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Done is better than perfect.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Learning.
The Overthinker.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
