168 originals
Builder, investor, trader.
Cover, story.
What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
We suffer more in imagination than reality.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
Hours vs. Iterations
You don't have a lack of ideas, you have a lack of deadlines
Observer, expert, practitioner.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Distraction, focus.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand exponential growth
Building vs. betting.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Distraction is dilution.
It took me years to play like myself.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
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.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Value is subjective.
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
Slow down.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
Equity unites, politics divides.
+2 vs. x2
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Switching costs.
Said, done.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
More before better.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
View reading as an investment.
The simpler the story, the bigger the market.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
You are what you think you are.
Alan Watts
Each man believes only his experience.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
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.
Resistance lifts.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Done is better than perfect.
It's all relative.
Grandma's Rule: You have to eat the carrots before you get the dessert.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
Think of many things; do one.
Failure = feedback.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
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.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
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.
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.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Do less, do more.
Thought, Spoken, Heard
