168 originals
Each man believes only his experience.
Hare & tortoise.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Creativity before productivity.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
The obstacle is the way.
Don't just do something, stand there.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Distraction, focus.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Movement, action.
Done is better than perfect.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You are what you think you are.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Said, done.
+2 vs. x2
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Switching costs.
80:20
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Talk is cheap.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
NFTs, explained.
Work vs. Luck
Everyone, Someone.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
More before better.
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.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Perspective.
Truth, Perception
Alan Watts
No, it took me my whole life.
View reading as an investment.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Distraction.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
No one is coming to save you.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Realize.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
