168 originals
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Appreciation.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Work vs. Luck
Slow down.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Chronos, Kairos.
Resistance lifts.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Failure = feedback.
Distraction.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Think of many things; do one.
NFTs, explained.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
You are what you think you are.
Building vs. betting.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Learning.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Cover, story.
The first step is the steepest.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Said, done.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Experience.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Switching costs.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Done is better than perfect.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
No, it took me my whole life.
Don't just do something, stand there.
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.
+2 vs. x2
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Vision
Numbers obscure nuance.
Builder, investor, trader.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Reason for being
