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Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
The giver is the recipient.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Done is better than perfect.
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.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Hierarchy.
The Overthinker.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
More before better.
Everyone, Someone.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
More moves and less chat.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Work vs. Luck
zero-sum, infinite-sum
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Banks vs. Blockchains
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
80:20
Building vs. betting.
Experience is up only.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
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.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Map ≠ Territory
Do less, do more.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Vision
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Failure = feedback.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Distraction is dilution.
Generalist, specialist.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
NFTs, explained.
Alan Watts
It is really hard to make something easy.
Value is subjective.
