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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The giver is the recipient.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Builder, investor, trader.
Each man believes only his experience.
Hierarchy.
Truth, Perception
Hare & tortoise.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Everyone, Someone.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Resistance lifts.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Switching costs.
Reason for being
Fear is the mind-killer.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Said, done.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Process vs. plan.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Generalist, specialist.
Building vs. betting.
Slow down.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Creativity before productivity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Hours vs. Iterations
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
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.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Numbers obscure nuance.
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.
Banks vs. Blockchains
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.
More before better.
No one is coming to save you.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
80:20
Talk is cheap.
Learning.
Comfort vs. pain.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
View reading as an investment.
Value is subjective.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Labor, leverage.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
