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Switching costs.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Reason for being
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
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.
Resistance lifts.
Truth, Perception
80:20
Don't just do something, stand there.
Equity unites, politics divides.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
No one is coming to save you.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Vision
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
The first step is the steepest.
Shoot.
It is really hard to make something easy.
More before better.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Labor, leverage.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Do less, do more.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Talk is cheap.
+2 vs. x2
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Truth.
Mindset vs. Mind set
More ≠ more.
The Overthinker.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Hours vs. Iterations
More moves and less chat.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Banks vs. Blockchains
Process vs. plan.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.