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We suffer more in imagination than reality.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
If you keep looking back, you're gonna trip going forward.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
Truth.
More moves and less chat.
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.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Mindset vs. Mind set
The Overthinker.
+2 vs. x2
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
It is really hard to make something easy.
Creativity before productivity.
Resistance lifts.
An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is death.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
Belief is a skill that requires practice.
Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
Knowing vs. understanding.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Those who have nothing to lose are very rich.
Distraction is dilution.
‘No matter how far ahead I get, I always feel behind in my mind.’
Building vs. betting.
An artist is not paid for labor but for vision.
The more we know, the more we know we don't know.
Done is better than perfect.
Experience.
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
Appreciation.
More ≠ more.
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Hours vs. Iterations
Thought, Spoken, Heard
Do less, do more.
Comfort vs. pain.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
Builder, investor, trader.
You don't have to start from scratch to do something interesting.
Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
Freedom is the gap between earn and burn.
Alan Watts
The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
Distraction.
Know yourself as Nothing. Feel yourself as Everything.
Shoot.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Well done is better than well said.