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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Failure = feedback.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Perspective.
More moves and less chat.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Appreciation.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Hare & tortoise.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Distraction.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
Truth.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You are what you think you are.
Said, done.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Chronos, Kairos.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Generalist, specialist.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Think of many things; do one.
Work vs. Luck
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Switching costs.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
It's all relative.
Distraction, focus.
Building vs. betting.
It is really hard to make something easy.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Truth, trend.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Truth, Perception
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
NFTs, explained.
