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Comfort vs. pain.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Reason for being
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.
No one is coming to save you.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Shoot.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Talk is cheap.
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 greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Truth, Perception
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Building vs. betting.
It's all relative.
Switching costs.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Well done is better than well said.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Generalist, specialist.
Truth, trend.
Do less, do more.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Realize.
Movement, action.
More ≠ more.
+2 vs. x2
80:20
Builder, investor, trader.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Distraction.
The Overthinker.
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 must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Creativity before productivity.
Process vs. plan.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
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.
Hare & tortoise.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Numbers obscure nuance.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
