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Talk is cheap.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Slow down.
More ≠ more.
Reason for being
Distraction.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
Comfort vs. pain.
Distraction, focus.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Appreciation.
You are what you think you are.
Mindset vs. Mind set
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Truth, trend.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Truth.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Perspective.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Switching costs.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
View reading as an investment.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Labor, leverage.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Said, done.
Vision
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Truth
The Overthinker.
Chronos, Kairos.
Truth, Perception
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
