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Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Hierarchy.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Learning.
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.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
View reading as an investment.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Builder, investor, trader.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Perspective.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Distraction, focus.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Distraction is dilution.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The Overthinker.
Reason for being
Shoot.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Realize.
Done is better than perfect.
Hours vs. Iterations
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Think of many things; do one.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Switching costs.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Knowing vs. understanding.
No one is coming to save you.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
80:20
+2 vs. x2
Cover, story.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Vision
Numbers obscure nuance.
