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The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Thought, said, heard, understood.
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.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Work vs. Luck
+2 vs. x2
Done is better than perfect.
Do less, do more.
Reason for being
Truth
Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Well done is better than well said.
View reading as an investment.
80:20
Experience.
Labor, leverage.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Builder, investor, trader.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Alan Watts
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Bull, Bear, Builder.
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.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Equity unites, politics divides.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Realize.
More moves and less chat.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Failure = feedback.
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're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
You are here.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Building vs. betting.
Generalist, specialist.
No great thing is created suddenly.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Truth, Perception
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The Overthinker.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
