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Learning.
Done is better than perfect.
Hours vs. Iterations
+2 vs. x2
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth, trend.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Realize.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Distraction.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The Overthinker.
Numbers obscure nuance.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Alan Watts
It's all relative.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Shoot.
Work vs. Luck
Experience.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Think of many things; do one.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
More moves and less chat.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Comfort vs. pain.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
You are here.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
Distraction, focus.
Value is subjective.
Map ≠ Territory
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Vision
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Well done is better than well said.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Resistance lifts.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
