168 originals
Realize.
Everyone, Someone.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
You are what you think you are.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
You are here.
Think of many things; do one.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Movement, action.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Generalist, specialist.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Numbers obscure nuance.
Slow down.
More moves and less chat.
Learning.
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.
Failure = feedback.
The Overthinker.
Each man believes only his experience.
Appreciation.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
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.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Do less, do more.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Said, done.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Knowing vs. understanding.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Done is better than perfect.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Truth.
No, it took me my whole life.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Process vs. plan.
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.
Distraction, focus.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Shoot.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
