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Hare & tortoise.
It took me years to play like myself.
You are here.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Cover, story.
Distraction is dilution.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
Reason for being
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Mindset vs. Mind set
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Vision
Belief gets in the way of learning.
View reading as an investment.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Switching costs.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Builder, investor, trader.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Map ≠ Territory
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Each man believes only his experience.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Distraction, focus.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Truth, trend.
Labor, leverage.
Slow down.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
No one is coming to save you.
Distraction.
Perspective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Learning.
More before better.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Everyone, Someone.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
