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Bull, Bear, Builder.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Done is better than perfect.
Experience.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Alan Watts
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
More before better.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
View reading as an investment.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
You are here.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
+2 vs. x2
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Vision
Truth, Perception
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
No great thing is created suddenly.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
You are what you think you are.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Switching costs.
Learning.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Map ≠ Territory
Work vs. Luck
Hare & tortoise.
The first step is the steepest.
Think of many things; do one.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Creativity before productivity.
