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Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Everyone, Someone.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Switching costs.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Creativity before productivity.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Hare & tortoise.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Distraction.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Generalist, specialist.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
View reading as an investment.
Process vs. plan.
The first step is the steepest.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Well done is better than well said.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Experience is up only.
Chronos, Kairos.
Labor, leverage.
+2 vs. x2
Numbers obscure nuance.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
No, it took me my whole life.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Vision
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Shoot.
Alan Watts
Hierarchy.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Map ≠ Territory
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.
The Overthinker.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
