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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.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Value is subjective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
More moves and less chat.
More before better.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
No, it took me my whole life.
Creativity before productivity.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Banks vs. Blockchains
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It took me years to play like myself.
Resistance lifts.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
80:20
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Hare & tortoise.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Labor, leverage.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Movement, action.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Hours vs. Iterations
The giver is the recipient.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
+2 vs. x2
Generalist, specialist.
Building vs. betting.
Truth, Perception
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Failure = feedback.
Do less, do more.
No one is coming to save you.
