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Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Alan Watts
You are here.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
More moves and less chat.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
+2 vs. x2
Numbers obscure nuance.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Resistance lifts.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Perspective.
Comfort vs. pain.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Talk is cheap.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.”
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Learning.
Truth
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Said, done.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Everyone, Someone.
Labor, leverage.
Chronos, Kairos.
It's all relative.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
Truth.
The giver is the recipient.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Distraction.
Shoot.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
View reading as an investment.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Slow down.
Truth, trend.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Building vs. betting.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
