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We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Switching costs.
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.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Value is subjective.
It took me years to play like myself.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
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.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Shoot.
View reading as an investment.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
NFTs, explained.
Talk is cheap.
Realize.
Done is better than perfect.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
You are what you think you are.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Truth.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Creativity before productivity.
Distraction, focus.
Building vs. betting.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Generalist, specialist.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Movement, action.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Each man believes only his experience.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Resistance lifts.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Cover, story.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alan Watts
Everyone, Someone.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Do less, do more.
Appreciation.
The giver is the recipient.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.