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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Comfort vs. pain.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Learning.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Distraction, focus.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Building vs. betting.
Chronos, Kairos.
Labor, leverage.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Hare & tortoise.
Builder, investor, trader.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, Perception
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Said, done.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Work vs. Luck
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Distraction is dilution.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
View reading as an investment.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Experience is up only.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Realize.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Truth.
Equity unites, politics divides.
No one is coming to save you.
The Overthinker.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Do less, do more.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Reason for being
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
+2 vs. x2
More ≠ more.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
