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There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Labor, leverage.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction.
Shoot.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Generalist, specialist.
Talk is cheap.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Work vs. Luck
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Map ≠ Territory
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Slow down.
Hare & tortoise.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Distraction is dilution.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Well done is better than well said.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It's all relative.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hours vs. Iterations
It is really hard to make something easy.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
Truth
Value is subjective.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Hierarchy.
Distraction, focus.
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.
View reading as an investment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Resistance lifts.
Truth, trend.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It took me years to play like myself.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Experience is up only.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
