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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Fear is the mind-killer.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The first step is the steepest.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Do less, do more.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
No, it took me my whole life.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The Overthinker.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Said, done.
Well done is better than well said.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
More ≠ more.
Appreciation.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Comfort vs. pain.
Experience is up only.
Alan Watts
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Hare & tortoise.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Distraction, focus.
Switching costs.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Labor, leverage.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
NFTs, explained.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Hours vs. Iterations
Each man believes only his experience.
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.
It's all relative.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It took me years to play like myself.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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.
Think of many things; do one.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Shoot.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Value is subjective.
No great thing is created suddenly.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
