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An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
No, it took me my whole life.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Alan Watts
Switching costs.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Experience is up only.
Shoot.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Done is better than perfect.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Everyone, Someone.
You are what you think you are.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Generalist, specialist.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Vision
Hare & tortoise.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Creativity before productivity.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Hours vs. Iterations
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Experience.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Truth, Perception
You are here.
Distraction is dilution.
Talk is cheap.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Learning.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Think of many things; do one.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
View reading as an investment.
