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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
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.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Creativity before productivity.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Chronos, Kairos.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Perspective.
Each man believes only his experience.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
You are here.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
More ≠ more.
Switching costs.
Truth, trend.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Movement, action.
Labor, leverage.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Learning.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Cover, story.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Hierarchy.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Everyone, Someone.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
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.
Distraction is dilution.
Hare & tortoise.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You are what you think you are.
+2 vs. x2
