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Generalist, specialist.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Failure is the frame, not the picture.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
80:20
The Overthinker.
Banks vs. Blockchains
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Process vs. plan.
More ≠ more.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Hierarchy.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
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.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Realize.
Everyone, Someone.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Truth, trend.
Distraction, focus.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Slow down.
Distraction is dilution.
Switching costs.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Done is better than perfect.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Vision
Map ≠ Territory
Each man believes only his experience.
Movement, action.
More before better.
Chronos, Kairos.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
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.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
