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Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Hierarchy.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Distraction is dilution.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
You are what you think you are.
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.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Truth, trend.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Labor, leverage.
Perspective.
Just because you can acquire the thing doesn't mean you can maintain the thing.
Movement, action.
Don't just do something, stand there.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Creativity before productivity.
It took me years to play like myself.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Distraction, focus.
More before better.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Reason for being
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Learning.
Value is subjective.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Banks vs. Blockchains
It is really hard to make something easy.
View reading as an investment.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Process vs. plan.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Chronos, Kairos.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
Work vs. Luck
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Hare & tortoise.
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.
Appreciation.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
The Overthinker.
Comfort vs. pain.
80:20
