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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
The Overthinker.
Map ≠ Territory
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Hare & tortoise.
More moves and less chat.
The more you compare, the less you differentiate.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Distraction is dilution.
Building vs. betting.
Mindset vs. Mind set
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
The source of wisdom is whatever is going to happen to us today.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
More ≠ more.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Distraction.
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Thought, said, heard, understood.
Each man believes only his experience.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
Process vs. plan.
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.
Creativity before productivity.
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.
Failure = feedback.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Hierarchy.
Work vs. Luck
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
If it looks simple, it was hard.
It took me years to play like myself.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
View reading as an investment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
No, it took me my whole life.
Alan Watts
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.
Think of many things; do one.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
