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If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Building vs. betting.
Work vs. Luck
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Said, done.
Process vs. plan.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
View reading as an investment.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Everyone, Someone.
Learning.
You are here.
Slow down.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Vision
Hare & tortoise.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Truth, Perception
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Appreciation.
Distraction is dilution.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Distraction.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
More before better.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Generalist, specialist.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
+2 vs. x2
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
NFTs, explained.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
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.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Map ≠ Territory
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Creativity before productivity.
Hierarchy.
Labor, leverage.
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.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
