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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.
Vision
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
It took me years to play like myself.
Movement, action.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Truth, trend.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The obstacle is the way.
Each man believes only his experience.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Work vs. Luck
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Appreciation.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
+2 vs. x2
Creativity before productivity.
Reason for being
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Equity unites, politics divides.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Learning.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Slow down.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Hare & tortoise.
It is really hard to make something easy.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Perspective.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Map ≠ Territory
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Do less, do more.
You are what you think you are.
The Overthinker.
No one is coming to save you.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Truth.
Resistance lifts.
Comfort vs. pain.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
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