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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.
Building vs. betting.
Reason for being
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
NFTs, explained.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Value is subjective.
Realize.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Truth
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Appreciation.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Distraction, focus.
Hare & tortoise.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Chronos, Kairos.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Said, done.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The Overthinker.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
+2 vs. x2
Each man believes only his experience.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
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.
The giver is the recipient.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
No one is coming to save you.
