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The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Truth, trend.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Think of many things; do one.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Experience is up only.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The first step is the steepest.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Creativity before productivity.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Learning.
Reason for being
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Hierarchy.
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.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Perspective.
More moves and less chat.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hours vs. Iterations
Don't just do something, stand there.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Hare & tortoise.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Movement, action.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Distraction.
Vision
Builder, investor, trader.
Building vs. betting.
It took me years to play like myself.
Chronos, Kairos.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Alan Watts
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
More before better.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The obstacle is the way.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No one is coming to save you.
View reading as an investment.