168 originals
Reason for being
Cover, story.
Distraction.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Slow down.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
More ≠ more.
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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The Overthinker.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction is dilution.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Hierarchy.
Building vs. betting.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Truth, Perception
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You are here.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Hare & tortoise.
Truth
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Work vs. Luck
Distraction, focus.
Appreciation.
More moves and less chat.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Equity unites, politics divides.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Alan Watts
Process vs. plan.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Builder, investor, trader.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
The first step is the steepest.
The giver is the recipient.
Everyone, Someone.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
You are what you think you are.
