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The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Reason for being
Learning.
NFTs, explained.
Knowing vs. understanding.
Truth
Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Distraction.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
The giver is the recipient.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Fear is the mind-killer.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
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.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
No one is coming to save you.
View reading as an investment.
Code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.
Distraction, focus.
Building vs. betting.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Labor, leverage.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Failure = feedback.
Hare & tortoise.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Distraction is dilution.
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.
Hours vs. Iterations
Don't just do something, stand there.
No, it took me my whole life.
Creativity before productivity.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do.”
Vision
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The Overthinker.
Process vs. plan.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
