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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.
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.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Cover, story.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
Hare & tortoise.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Each man believes only his experience.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Perspective.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
View reading as an investment.
Truth, Perception
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Numbers obscure nuance.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Hierarchy.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Switching costs.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Process vs. plan.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
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.
Builder, investor, trader.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It took me years to play like myself.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Work vs. Luck
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Distraction.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Value is subjective.
Distraction, focus.
Learning.
Truth, trend.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Everyone, Someone.
Appreciation.
Distraction is dilution.
Said, done.
