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We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
View reading as an investment.
Value is subjective.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Reason for being
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.
Done is better than perfect.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Shoot.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
It took me years to play like myself.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Truth, Perception
It is really hard to make something easy.
Mindset vs. Mind set
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Do less, do more.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
More moves and less chat.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Generalist, specialist.
Work vs. Luck
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
No great thing is created suddenly.
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.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
No one is coming to save you.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Hierarchy.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Truth
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Distraction is dilution.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
NFTs, explained.
Talk is cheap.
Creativity before productivity.
Vision
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
No, it took me my whole life.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
