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Reason for being
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Value is subjective.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Each man believes only his experience.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
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.
No one is coming to save you.
Creativity before productivity.
More ≠ more.
Perspective.
It is really hard to make something easy.
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 suffer more in imagination than reality.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Distraction, focus.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Banks vs. Blockchains
Vision
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Slow down.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
View reading as an investment.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
It's all relative.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Appreciation.
You are what you think you are.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Truth, Perception
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Distraction is dilution.
Said, done.
Builder, investor, trader.
Truth, trend.
Work vs. Luck
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
