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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Everyone, Someone.
Failure = feedback.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
More ≠ more.
The obstacle is the way.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Numbers obscure nuance.
80:20
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Truth, Perception
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Truth.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Each man believes only his experience.
Process vs. plan.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
View reading as an investment.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Creativity before productivity.
Vision
Learning.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Labor, leverage.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Distraction.
It took me years to play like myself.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Comfort vs. pain.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
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.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Chronos, Kairos.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Experience is up only.
The giver is the recipient.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
