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Reason for being
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Distraction is dilution.
Shoot.
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.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Hierarchy.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction, focus.
Cover, story.
No one is coming to save you.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Resistance lifts.
The first step is the steepest.
Hare & tortoise.
Creativity before productivity.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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.
Mindset vs. Mind set
You are here.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Truth.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Experience.
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.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
80:20
The fool is always getting ready to live.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The obstacle is the way.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hours vs. Iterations
Fear is the mind-killer.
Movement, action.
Well done is better than well said.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
+2 vs. x2
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Realize.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Done is better than perfect.
Truth
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.
No, it took me my whole life.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth, Perception
Said, done.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
