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Creativity before productivity.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
View reading as an investment.
Reason for being
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Hierarchy.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Process vs. plan.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Chronos, Kairos.
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.
Appreciation.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Each man believes only his experience.
No one is coming to save you.
Comfort vs. pain.
Value is subjective.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Labor, leverage.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
More moves and less chat.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Failure = feedback.
Do less, do more.
Building vs. betting.
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.
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.
No, it took me my whole life.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Done is better than perfect.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
The obstacle is the way.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The giver is the recipient.
Hare & tortoise.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
80:20
Work vs. Luck
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Distraction, focus.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Perspective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
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