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Everyone, Someone.
It is really hard to make something easy.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Done is better than perfect.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
Hierarchy.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
You are what you think you are.
If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Learning.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Comfort vs. pain.
Hare & tortoise.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Resistance lifts.
Value is subjective.
Movement, action.
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.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
It's all relative.
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.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
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're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Slow down.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
It took me years to play like myself.
Generalist, specialist.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Work vs. Luck
Do less, do more.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
More before better.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Appreciation.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Talk is cheap.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
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.
