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The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
More before better.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Experience is up only.
Hare & tortoise.
Well done is better than well said.
Labor, leverage.
View reading as an investment.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Comfort vs. pain.
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Work vs. Luck
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Vision
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Learning.
The Overthinker.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Value is subjective.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
No one is coming to save you.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
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.
Shoot.
Experience.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Perspective.
Building vs. betting.
Switching costs.
Do less, do more.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Process vs. plan.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Everyone, Someone.
Reason for being
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Generalist, specialist.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
