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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.
Creativity before productivity.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Fear is the mind-killer.
View reading as an investment.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Hare & tortoise.
Experience.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Hierarchy.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Work vs. Luck
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
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 cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Generalist, specialist.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Everyone, Someone.
Building vs. betting.
Each man believes only his experience.
No, it took me my whole life.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Distraction is dilution.
Slow down.
Vision
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Experience is up only.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It took me years to play like myself.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
Distraction.
No one is coming to save you.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Realize.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Distraction, focus.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Cover, story.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
