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No one is coming to save you.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Truth.
Map ≠ Territory
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The first step is the steepest.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
More before better.
Vision
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Comfort vs. pain.
The Overthinker.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Experience is up only.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Appreciation.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do less, do more.
It took me years to play like myself.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Learning.
Creativity before productivity.
Hierarchy.
Mindset vs. Mind set
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Well done is better than well said.
80:20
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Said, done.
Truth, Perception
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Fear is the mind-killer.
View reading as an investment.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
