Visuals

Focus is determined by what you ignore.

Distraction.

Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.

Comfort vs. pain.

Labor, leverage.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Appreciation.

Process vs. plan.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

If it looks simple, it was hard.

Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.

No one is coming to save you.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Switching costs.

Distraction is dilution.

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.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Movement, action.

Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

Builder, investor, trader.

Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.

‘Everything is original, nothing is original’

Work vs. Luck

Truth.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.

Perspective.

Reason for being

There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

Slow down.

Truth, trend.

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.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.

An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Failure = feedback.

Banks vs. Blockchains

You are what you think you are.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

More ≠ more.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

NFTs, explained.

Truth

Each man believes only his experience.

Chronos, Kairos.

You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines

Knowing vs. understanding.

Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

More before better.

Value is subjective.

What you work on is more important than how hard you work.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Said, done.

Building vs. betting.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Think of many things; do one.

Expectation is the root of all heartache.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The fool is always getting ready to live.

View reading as an investment.

Equity unites, politics divides.

It is really hard to make something easy.

Numbers obscure nuance.

Truth, Perception

Belief is a skill that requires practice.

zero-sum, infinite-sum

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Peace begins when expectation ends.

Shoot.

Map ≠ Territory

We suffer more in imagination than reality.

You are here.

Hare & tortoise.

Done is better than perfect.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Creativity before productivity.

Distraction, focus.

If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.

Experience.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.

Mindset vs. Mind set

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Generalist, specialist.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

Price is what you pay; value is what you get.

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.

Vision

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”

If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.

More moves and less chat.

Observer, expert, practitioner.

Learning.

Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.

Hierarchy.

Thought, Spoken, Heard

Cover, story.

Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.

Everyone, Someone.

The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.

You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.

It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Realize.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.

+2 vs. x2

You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.

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.

It took me years to play like myself.

We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

Bull, Bear, Builder.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The obstacle is the way.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Fear is the mind-killer.

You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.

Alan Watts

80:20

Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

No, it took me my whole life.

The more you compare, the less you differentiate.

An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.

Don't just do something, stand there.

The first step is the steepest.

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.

Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.

Well done is better than well said.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Failure is the frame, not the picture.

Resistance lifts.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.

It's all relative.

The Overthinker.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Hare & tortoise.

Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.

The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.

Talk is cheap.

The more we know, the more we know we don't know.

The giver is the recipient.

Thought, said, heard, understood.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Experience is up only.

Hours vs. Iterations

No great thing is created suddenly.

Do less, do more.

Wealth is a ratio, not a number.