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Each man believes only his experience.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
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.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Comfort vs. pain.
No, it took me my whole life.
Truth, trend.
Truth, Perception
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Chronos, Kairos.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Distraction is dilution.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
It's all relative.
Builder, investor, trader.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Work vs. Luck
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Process vs. plan.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Distraction, focus.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Switching costs.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The Overthinker.
+2 vs. x2
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Talk is cheap.
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.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
More before better.
More ≠ more.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Do less, do more.
Reason for being
Movement, action.
Distraction.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Said, done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Experience is up only.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Labor, leverage.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
It is really hard to make something easy.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
