168 originals
Hare & tortoise.
Movement, action.
Done is better than perfect.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Generalist, specialist.
Reason for being
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Wealth is a ratio, not a number.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Failure = feedback.
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.
Learning.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Switching costs.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Everyone, Someone.
Map ≠ Territory
Fear is the mind-killer.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
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.
Equity unites, politics divides.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Chronos, Kairos.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
No one is coming to save you.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
+2 vs. x2
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.
Slow down.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Work vs. Luck
Vision
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Process vs. plan.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Distraction.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
It took me years to play like myself.
Hierarchy.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
The giver is the recipient.
It's all relative.
Observer, expert, practitioner.
Experience is up only.
Truth, trend.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
