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You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Resistance lifts.
Reason for being
No, it took me my whole life.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
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.
Experience is up only.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The giver is the recipient.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Said, done.
Vision
The first step is the steepest.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Distraction is dilution.
Done is better than perfect.
Truth
Learning.
Do less, do more.
Truth.
It took me years to play like myself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Realize.
Experience.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Slow down.
80:20
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Each man believes only his experience.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Shoot.
More ≠ more.
No one is coming to save you.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
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.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Comfort vs. pain.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Talk is cheap.
Hours vs. Iterations
Building vs. betting.
Work vs. Luck
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.