168 originals
Slow down.
Knowing vs. understanding.
More ≠ more.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
It's all relative.
Truth, trend.
Switching costs.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Learning.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
It is really hard to make something easy.
View reading as an investment.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Truth, Perception
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
NFTs, explained.
Everyone, Someone.
80:20
More moves and less chat.
Distraction is dilution.
Value is subjective.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
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.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Each man believes only his experience.
Resistance lifts.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Realize.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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, focus.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Equity unites, politics divides.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If it looks simple, it was hard.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
