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There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Switching costs.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
More moves and less chat.
View reading as an investment.
Done is better than perfect.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
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.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Truth, trend.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The first step is the steepest.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The obstacle is the way.
Generalist, specialist.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Cover, story.
+2 vs. x2
Hours vs. Iterations
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Think of many things; do one.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Reason for being
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Failure = feedback.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Movement, action.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Distraction is dilution.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Mindset vs. Mind set
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, focus.
It took me years to play like myself.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Vision
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.
Truth
Do less, do more.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
