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Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
More before better.
Hours vs. Iterations
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
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.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Process vs. plan.
Creativity before productivity.
Think of many things; do one.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
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.
Perspective.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Numbers obscure nuance.
The giver is the recipient.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Realize.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Truth.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
The Overthinker.
Hare & tortoise.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Value is subjective.
No, it took me my whole life.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Distraction.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Resistance lifts.
Map ≠ Territory
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
+2 vs. x2
Vision
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
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.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Experience.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Switching costs.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
Each man believes only his experience.
Building vs. betting.
Knowing vs. understanding.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
