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It took me years to play like myself.
Hare & tortoise.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Work vs. Luck
Numbers obscure nuance.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Chronos, Kairos.
You are here.
Distraction is dilution.
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 want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.
Distraction.
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.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Appreciation.
Don't just do something, stand there.
Switching costs.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Perspective.
Failure = feedback.
Value is subjective.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
View reading as an investment.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Said, done.
Slow down.
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.
Comfort vs. pain.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
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.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Distraction, focus.
Cover, story.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Labor, leverage.
Building vs. betting.
Equity unites, politics divides.
More ≠ more.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Truth.
Truth, trend.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
