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The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
Done is better than perfect.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
+2 vs. x2
Experience.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Well done is better than well said.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The giver is the recipient.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Builder, investor, trader.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Mindset vs. Mind set
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
The Overthinker.
Hours vs. Iterations
It took me years to play like myself.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Everyone, Someone.
Cover, story.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Creativity before productivity.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Resistance lifts.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Generalist, specialist.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Appreciation.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
You are here.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Failure = feedback.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Movement, action.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
More before better.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Perspective.
80:20
Comfort vs. pain.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Talk is cheap.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Experience is up only.
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
It's all relative.
Map ≠ Territory
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
The one fact pertaining to all conditions is that they will change.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.