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Work vs. Luck
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Appreciation.
The obstacle is the way.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Labor, leverage.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Chronos, Kairos.
Slow down.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Hare & tortoise.
+2 vs. x2
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Well done is better than well said.
Do less, do more.
It took me years to play like myself.
Perspective.
Hours vs. Iterations
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Failure = feedback.
Builder, investor, trader.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Knowing vs. understanding.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Realize.
Movement, action.
Hierarchy.
Each man believes only his experience.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Done is better than perfect.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Map ≠ Territory
