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It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Numbers obscure nuance.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Distraction.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
Said, done.
You are what you think you are.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Each man believes only his experience.
Process vs. plan.
Work vs. Luck
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It took me years to play like myself.
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.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Cover, story.
Distraction is dilution.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Vision
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
More ≠ more.
Comfort vs. pain.
Perspective.
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.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
More moves and less chat.
Map ≠ Territory
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Building vs. betting.
Chronos, Kairos.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Resistance lifts.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
View reading as an investment.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
The giver is the recipient.
+2 vs. x2
Realize.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
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.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Equity unites, politics divides.
Reason for being
80:20
