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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Building vs. betting.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
You are here.
Truth, Perception
Vision
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Hare & tortoise.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Hierarchy.
More before better.
It took me years to play like myself.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Switching costs.
Cover, story.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Talk is cheap.
Done is better than perfect.
Learning.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Value is subjective.
Truth, trend.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Distraction.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Work vs. Luck
Creativity before productivity.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Distraction is dilution.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Everyone, Someone.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The Overthinker.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Movement, action.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
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.
