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Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
No, it took me my whole life.
More before better.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Switching costs.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Distraction is dilution.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Cover, story.
Truth, Perception
Hare & tortoise.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Vision
Each man believes only his experience.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Movement, action.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
You are here.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
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.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Hierarchy.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Alan Watts
The first step is the steepest.
Comfort vs. pain.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It took me years to play like myself.
Experience.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Work vs. Luck
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You are what you think you are.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Creativity before productivity.
Well done is better than well said.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Everyone, Someone.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
