168 originals
Creativity before productivity.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Generalist, specialist.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Reason for being
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Numbers obscure nuance.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Talk is cheap.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Truth
Appreciation.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Experience.
Labor, leverage.
+2 vs. x2
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Each man believes only his experience.
Knowing vs. understanding.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Map ≠ Territory
Belief gets in the way of learning.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
It's all relative.
View reading as an investment.
Fear is the mind-killer.
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.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Hours vs. Iterations
It took me years to play like myself.
No one is coming to save you.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Value is subjective.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Distraction.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Slow down.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More moves and less chat.
The giver is the recipient.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Work vs. Luck
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.
Don't just do something, stand there.
