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Generalist, specialist.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
It took me years to play like myself.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Builder, investor, trader.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Map ≠ Territory
Creativity before productivity.
You are here.
Vision
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Each man believes only his experience.
Cover, story.
Labor, leverage.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
+2 vs. x2
Fear is the mind-killer.
The Overthinker.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Hierarchy.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
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.
Equity unites, politics divides.
It is really hard to make something easy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Slow down.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
80:20
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Reason for being
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Alan Watts
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Knowing vs. understanding.
More before better.
No one is coming to save you.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Resistance lifts.
When you feel like giving up is precisely the point everybody else gives up. So it’s at that point that you must put in extra effort.
